Pawlenty: Obama Should Say 'I'm Sorry'
Politico reports:
Tim Pawlenty, former Minnesota governor and likely Republican presidential candidate, says he would like to hear President Barack Obama say in his State of the Union address: “I realize that I overreached. ... I’m sorry, and now I’m going to work ... to take the country and the Congress in a different direction that is more mainstream.”
Pawlenty — in an interview for the POLITICO video series “What Lies Ahead” — said he agreed with Obama’s “decision to surge the troops in Afghanistan. ... For him in particular, when you’re dealing with a radical left wing of his party that’s very plugged into that issue — that was a courageous decision.”
“He’s at least tried to start the discussion around teacher reform and teacher accountability,” Pawlenty added. “Now, they’ve given more deference to the teachers unions than I would have in that discussion. But at least he’s tried to get the ball rolling.”
Pawlenty — interviewed at the National Press Club during a book tour for his memoir “Courage to Stand: An American Story” — had a much longer list of issues on which the two differ:
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“I disagreed with him on the stimulus bill; I disagreed with him on the bailouts ... I disagree with him on how he protects unions and public employee union organizations at the expense of taxpayers. ... I disagree with him ... as it relates to the missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland, after they stuck their necks out for us to agree to host those. ... I disagree with him on health care. I think that was one of the most misguided pieces of legislation ... in the modern history of the country.”
