Tim Pawlenty Has Some Questions To Answer About His Globull Warming Support

by William Teach | March 24, 2011 9:00 am

Now that Tim Pawlenty has announced that he has formed a presidential exploratory committee[1], it is time to start looking at his conservative credentials. Overall, he would appear to be a great candidate. But, there is one problem I see[2]

A video created by a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota captures[3] Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor and a 2012 presidential candidate, repeatedly calling for a cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide emissions to fight climate change. The video was aired during a hearing on a Republican bill to lift restrictions on coal-fired power plants. Mr. Pawlenty now describes his past support for cap-and-trade as “stupid.” [MinnPost]

Here’s what T-Paw had to say[4]

“As to cap and trade, almost everybody who’s run has got the same problem,” Pawlenty said last month during the Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Washington. “If you look under the hood, you’ll see that I, like everybody else potentially running, looked at it, flirted with it and then decided it was a bad idea.”

“So have I changed by position? Yes,” Pawlenty said at CPAC. “But I’m not going to be cute about it, hem and haw, be dippy and dancy about it. Just saying yeah, it was a mistake, it was stupid. It was wrong.”

I’ll give him points for honesty in saying he was wrong, but, is this something he truly believes? Or, is it just something he is saying to placate the Conservative base? He has some questions to answer

  1. Have you truly changed your position on cap and trade, along with the climate change hoax?
  2. Will you state specifically that you will forswear from pushing cap and change legislation and/or signing cap and tax legislation?
  3. What is your position on anthropogenic global warming?

Feel free to chime in with some questions of your own.

Endnotes:
  1. presidential exploratory committee: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/tim-pawlenty-says-hes-in-mitch-daniels-suggests-hes-not/2011/03/04/AB3xGW7_blog.html
  2. one problem I see: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/on-our-radar-climate-questions-dog-2012-presidential-contender/
  3. captures: http://www.minnpost.com/donshelby/2011/03/15/26586/pawlentys_flip-flop_on_energy_and_environment_%E2%80%94_and_whats_ahead_for_our_state
  4. had to say: http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/PawlentysCap-and-TradeMayReturntoHaunt/2011/03/23/id/390456

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