{"id":4598,"date":"2011-04-17T03:35:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T10:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2011-04-17T03:35:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T10:35:34","slug":"watch-pawlenty-squirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/watch-pawlenty-squirm\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Pawlenty Squirm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republican Presidential candidates have a problem.&#160; If they do not back extreme Republican positions the hate mongers, that the party has embraced and are noel the base, will repudiate them, and they cannot win the nomination.&#160; On the other hand, if they do back the extremes, they become repugnant to the majority of Americans.&#160; With this in mind, watch Pawlenty squirm.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"RepublicanRoad\" alt=\"RepublicanRoad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/RepublicanRoad1.gif\" width=\"360\" height=\"241\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The House Republicans&#8217; Medicare-killing plan has at least one GOP presidential hopeful <a style=\"text-align: left\" href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2011\/04\/15\/pawlenty-medicare-ryan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">a little tied up in knots<\/font><\/a> over the fact that it actually retains some of the costs savings from the dreaded &quot;Obamacare.&quot; Igor Volsky caught up with Tim Pawlenty in New Hampshire:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UA-W5iOfhHs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">During a Tea Party rally in New Hampshire, likely presidential candidate and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (R) endorsed the Ryan proposal, saying, \u201cas a general matter and directionally, I think Paul Ryan\u2019s plan moves in the right direction.\u201d But when I pressed him over whether he supports maintaining some of the Medicare cuts that are part of health care reform, Pawlenty demurred, and took another question&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8230;In other words, &quot;Get me out of this!&quot;&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/04\/16\/967369\/-GOP-hopeful-Pawlenty-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-Ryans-Medicare-cuts\">Daily Kos<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The first part of Pawlenty\u2019s statement was pure Republican doubletalk: trying to embrace \u201cdirection\u201d but evade details.&#160; 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