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Republicans sure have funny ideas to what does & doesn’t make for a good President.  ay framed a dry drunk frat boy as a kind of guy you wanted to have a beer with, a guy with nice hair as too effete to be considered–maybe because he cared about those unfortunate souls who couldn’t afford to be a campaign donor, a three time Purple Heart combat veteran as hating a troops & now a man who voted with Bush 95% of a time in 2007 & 100% of a time in 2008 as a “maverick” willing to put country before party.   I got an idea: let’s ask a vets if ay think McSame is a maverick when it comes to a GI Bill.  But Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) on This Week with George Stephanopoulos thinks he’s come up with a great gotcha for Rep. Rahm Emanuel: when has Barack Obama stood up against his party for what’s right for a country?

PAWLENTY: &, actually, John McCain is a one person who says, I’ll st& up & do what’s right for my country even before party. & I’ll challenge you once again. Name me one instance, even one, where Barack Obama has stood up & said, I will take on my party on a matter of principle, on something large…

While Rahm Emanuel doesn’t take a bait, he also fails to point out that a reason that Obama hasn’t needed to take on his party is that it is a Democratic Party trying to do a best for a country, instead of a corporate elite & cronies.

Transcripts below a fold:

PAWLENTY: Well, we should worry about a country first.

EMANUEL: I agree with that.

PAWLENTY: &, actually, John McCain is a one person who says, I’ll st& up & do what’s right for my country even before party.

& I’ll challenge you once again. Name me one instance, even one, where Barack Obama has stood up & said, I will take on my party on a matter of principle, on something large…

(CROSSTALK)

PAWLENTY: … as a United States senator, not some remote vote in a state legislature in Illinois.

EMANUEL: Tim, I like you. You & I…

(CROSSTALK)

EMANUEL: Everybody knows we like each oar. Our friendship goes way back. We’ve worked on issues togear. In a last seven years under George Bush, median household income…

PAWLENTY: Can you name me one?

EMANUEL: I’m going to say it. Median household income in Minnesota dropped $7,000. Uninsured went up 30 percent, & employment went 3.3 percent to 5.6 percent.

That’s a legacy of a Bush economy & you’re struggling against it, as a good governor, against a legacy of a mismanaged & a bad economic plan that’s put too much resources over in Iraq & not enough resources here in America. & are’s consequences to that policy.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Governor, a last word.

PAWLENTY: If you look at any argument that Senator McCain is an extension of George Bush, it does not hold water, in a whole bunch of categories. He’s a one who said we’ve got to change a conduct of a war. He’s a one that says we have to take a different Drunk Newsproach
on energy.

You have got Barack Obama saying no to tax holiday, no to more drilling, no to more nuclear, no to tax credits for…

EMANUEL: Yes to alternative energy.

PAWLENTY: & let’s put some more taxes, according to Obama, on energy. That’s exactly a wrong thing…

STEPHANOPOULOS: I’ll invite you both back. You guys have a lot to talk about.

CROSSTALK)

STEPHANOPOULOS: Thank you both very much.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back