As the Political Animal blog points out, Politifact has given Tim Pawlenty a rating of “Full Flop” on the Cap and Trade issue: Back in 2007, Pawlenty was positioning himself as an environmental leader, pushing for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gases and a regional cap-and-trade plan.
Fast-forward to 2009, and he’s writing letters to Washington calling a Democratic plan to curb climate change, “overly bureaucratic, misguided” and “very burdensome on our economy.”
Pawlenty: Full Flop on Cap and Trade?
Sep 25 2009 — 2:44pm
9 Reader Comments
5:34 am
1. I believe that a Republican governor who was liberalish on certain things but who then becomes all conservativey on those things in lieu of a run for the White House is referred to as “pulling a Romney”.
2. At least they are by me.
9:08 am
You might have coined a new term.
1:35 pm
cap-and-trade is a terrible idea
6:57 pm
I prefer kneel-and-bob myself.
12:53 pm
I don’t know, conservatives seem to be great with the bitch-and-moan.
10:19 am
Maybe the changes in the economy after 2007 made him re-think the economic impacts cap and trade may have?
10:56 am
@baker: I wish T-Paw would rethink the impact his own economic policies have had on the state and its cities.
11:00 am
Well, thank God we got that stadium.
10:03 am
“Pulling a Romney” … awesome!
It is possible that T-Paw took some time to study up on how an effective (as in “actually affecting the climate”) global cap-and-trade regime is a geopolitical pipe dream, and that there are better, cheaper strategies for managing climate change, but I doubt it (since I don’t hear him talking about geoengineering and doing R&D on things like cloud brightening). Probably just the usual dumb partisan politics.