It looks like TPaw's script wasn't updated

[Stan]

Here is a transcript from last night where Pawlenty faced off with Eric Schmidt of Google on the stimulus plan

GOV. TIM PAWLENTY: ... I'm not saying that all of this bill is bad ideas. We're just talking about the fact that some of it is really not immediately stimulative. And if we want to debate, for example, STDs or smoking cessation or health care reform, those are good and legitimate issues, but probably should be handled in a separate bill, particularly when you're trying to get bipartisan buy-in. And that's one of the main objections.

NEWS HOUR HOST JUDY WOODRUFF: Eric Schmidt, how do you respond to that criticism?

ERIC SCHMIDT: Well, I actually agree with the governor, and those issues were actually taken out of the bill in conference. And now, in fact, the bill does not include most of those facilities.


Did our Gov. just read off of a week old script that was handed to him?

[Gopher4Life]

I think the kind governor may have let Schmidt off the hook. There's plenty of pork remaining in the latest bill.

[UpnorthGo4]

T-Paw has two jobs: Governor and Conservative Radio Hack. Unfortunately, too often he is mixing up the two of them these days. For example, his public pronouncements on the senate recount sounded like they came from Sean Hannity or Jason Lewis. Coleman and his lawyers have long since dropped any suggestion that there were any improprieties in the election and/or recount. The only unresolved issues are which absentee ballots to count, and the possible accidental double counting of a few ballots. T-Paw needs to understand that he is the Governor of everyone in Minnesota, not just right-wing Republicans.

[jamiche]

Everything that we need to know about T-Paw (as if we haven't lived with him long enough) took place during the presidential election. He spent a year running around the country with his nose up Johnny Mac's ass and when Johnny Mac went for for dream boat, T-Paw completely disappeared. If T-Paw really thought that Johnny Mac was going to be a great prez, wouldn't he have continued to campaign for him?

[MNSnowman]

T-Paw's beholden to the TaxAvoider's founder, Mike Wigley. Wigley was no fan of McCain and once McCain fell head-over-heels for Pahlin, T-Paw couldn't afford to stray too far from Wigley's leash.

[diehard]

Don't know anything about your governor, but didn't all that stuff get put back in the bill? I know the STD money did for sure. I'm not sure what the stimulus of that is. When you add up the interest on all this borrowed money you see that it can't be paid back. Cartersque interest and inflation to follow. This is not a recovery bill. It is a malaise bill. We need to make sure the cross over Senators are defeated in primarys by candidates with a brain.

[Gopher4Life]

The governor might have asked Schmidt to list the bit of pork that had been removed and then explain why the rest of it was left intact.

[MNSnowman]

The governor might have asked Schmidt to list the bit of pork that had been removed and then explain why the rest of it was left intact.Wigley hadn't written that script for T-Paw. He's an obedient lap-dog to Mike and Mike doesn't like it when T-Paw deviates from script.

[Gopher4Life]

I don't keep up with your state politics, so I'll take your word for it.

[GopherRock]

I'm not sure about this Mike Wigley character, but TPaw has been David Strom's lapdog since before he was House Majority Leader. Minnesota has been paying dearly for it since.

The only reason we have him as the governor is because of the DFL's thorough incompetence at winning close statewide elections. In 2002 they didn't screen Rick Kahn's script (this blunder also cost them Paul Wellstone's Senate seat), and in 2006 Judy Dutcher forgot what E85 was with four days left to the election.

[MNSnowman]

I'm not sure about this Mike Wigley character, but TPaw has been David Strom's lapdog since before he was House Majority Leader. Minnesota has been paying dearly for it since.

Wigley founded and pretty much underwrites the TaxAvoider's League. He gave Strom his start there. Then Phil (Representative "No") Krinkie was defeated for re-election and Wigley created the "Minnesota Free Market Institute" and moved Strom there so Krinkie could head up the TaxAvoider's League.

He plays mostly in the shadows but here's a piece on him from 2000 that displays his MO: Wigley goes after Svigum (http://www.mediatransparency.org/reprints/wigley_donations.htm)