Pawlenty on Almanac At the Capitol tonight

Posted at 4:46 PM on May 2, 2007 by Tom Scheck (1 Comments)

Gov. Pawlenty will be on TPT's Almanac at the Capitol tonight. One blogger on TPT's Brain Trust blog says the public may like Pawlenty more if he uses that veto pen a lot this session. What do you think? Does it show leadership? Obstruction? Common Sense? Partisanship?

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The DFL is doing an awful job of explaining this to the public. If they don't explain it and stare down Pawlenty, Pawlenty wins a political victory which could propel him on to the GOP ticket. (That's what's "in it" for TP.)

The DFL could sell a showdown to the voters on this way: "We want to make this about lowering people's property taxes and passing the burden to the very richest Minnesotans."

But they're not doing that. Pawlenty's side of the argument goes out every day over conservative talk radio. The DFL could make their case in the papers, but I don't think they've got the leadership or the party discipline or the stomach to do it. A friend says that if they fail to fight it on those terms, this session--that's a big win for the now-comatose state GOP, because voters who might come out for the DFL in the future will conclude that there's very little real difference between the parties.

So--it's down to the DFL to fight the big battle now. If they don't, they "deserve" to lose seats to the GOP next time around--because they will have failed to deliver for the voters who put them in.

Posted by Bill Prendergast | May 3, 2007 1:27 AM

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