2012 Republican presidential candidate and AWOL Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty thought he was criticizing the Obama Administration and their rescue of General Motors. His criticism may actually be showing more than he wants about his own failure as Governor of MN.
At Tuesday's Minnesota Business Partnership dinner, Gov. Tim Pawlenty compared the failures of auto giant General Motors to those of government.
GM, he said, had been arrogant, smug and unwilling to change for years before it failed.
"Are there any parallels to be drawn from the decision-making that you have seen in Washington, D.C. -- not just now but over the last several decades -- regardless of which party has been in power?" Pawlenty said in his rather bleak speech.
(Star Tribune)
Let's play a game with Pawlenty's remarks. Let's simply replace GM with Gov. Teabag.
- Gov. Teabag, he said, had been arrogant, smug and unwilling to change for years before Minnesota failed.
Wow. That works really well. Might this be a case of projection?
Pawlenty has been unwilling to change. His only suggestion of how MN can get out of the structural deficits his borrow-n-spend fiscal policy created has been more of the same paired with slashing the safety net that has made MN a beacon of how to do things right. While GM failed to innovate and chose to stick with building more and more SUVs, Pawlenty stuck to this "no-new-taxes" pledge. Eerie isn't it?
Next consider that final sentence. What are the parallels between what Pawlenty has done to MN that he'd like to do to the country? It's just a matter of scale. It's just a bigger truck off a bigger cliff.
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