Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Pawlenty the lame duck
Governor Pawlenty, "Governor of Brigadoon"--a portrait by Michael Tortorello, posted on The Uptake, courtesy of Noah Kunin. It's a fascinating portrait of the governor who has just announced he will not run for a third term. What are his further political ambitions, given that he was supposed to be John McCain's running mate until he was unceremoniously bumped by Palin? I have always regarded him as a smiling villain, an ogre with a smile, in thrall to the Grover Norquist "no new taxes" line. He's governed to the hard right, without flinching. He's led us to a deficit of Bush proportions. He says that being a "lame duck" will allow him to be more agressive with the unallotment process of defunding social services and education. We're in a heap of trouble.
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God. You know I finally watched Bowling for Columbine on my new setup, large external screen for the laptop (it's GREAT for DVDs, I can finally be a home movie watcher in comfort) and there is this part about the mother of the 6 year old who got hold of a gun at the house of the relative he was staying at while she worked, and shot a classmate.
She, on the Michigan welfare to work program, had to ride a bus 40 miles and work two jobs at minimum wage. So the 6 year old had to be farmed out to the best place she had available, and... well.
Then Moore has the Flint (I think) sheriff come on saying, "that welfare to work program serves no useful purpose to our county and should be canceled."
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