 My governor, Tim Pawlenty, has been a regular media gadfly during his first press availability of the 2012 campaign media statements at the Republican Governors' Association meetings. He's had the combover line and the less ideology, more doing line, and he let loose with a nice cheap shot against his 2012 rival rebuke to Sarah Palin, saying that "Drill, baby, drill" was just a slogan. If you didn't know anything about Minnesota's governor, you might think he was a decent, pragmatic guy who was willing to stand up to his party's orthodoxy.
Those of us who live in Minnesota, of course, know better. Gov. Timmy has not been willing to buck his party, not at all. He's still refused to sign a tax increase during his six years in office, going so far as to veto a transportation funding bill that passed in the wake of the I-35W bridge collapse because it had a gas tax attached to it. Jeff Rosenberg has a nice roundup for those who've forgotten some of Timmy's greatest hits, like the time he line-itemed funding for the central corridor transit proposal that he'd supported, just to stick it to the DFL.
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