Pawlenty sounds like a candidate for 2012
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty threatened to invoke states’ rights over President Obama’s health care plan and quipped that the “main benefit” of what he called the market-distorting, taxpayer-financed “cash for clunkers” program was that it “got a lot of cars with Obama stickers off the road.”
The two-term governor, in an interview with The Washington Times, sounded most of the right base notes as a Republican who is clearly eyeing his party’s 2012 presidential nomination: He equated abortion with murder, noted that the Earth is cooling, not warming, and said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and the Treasury secretaries in the Bush and Obama administrations were “misguided” at best in declaring certain financial and manufacturing organizations too big to be allowed to fail.
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