Friday, August 12, 2011

Time flies for Tim Pawlenty: On cap and trade: "I rejected it and came out against it several years ago"

Bachmann knocks Pawlenty on cap-and-trade at Iowa debate - The Hill's E2-Wire
In a later interview on Fox News, Pawlenty reiterated that he now opposes cap-and-trade and knocked Bachmann for inaccurately claiming it was implemented in Minnesota, which it wasn’t.

“She brought it up inaccurately. Again, she said I imposed it in Minnesota. No. I didn't. We had legislation that studied it. We considered it, but well before it never got imposed or even close to imposed I rejected it and came out against it several years ago. So again, she's aloof with facts,” Pawlenty said.
Total Pawlenty Turnaround on Global Warming
In December 2009, when he first started visiting New Hampshire, he was still talking like CO2 was pollution, and still failed to remove his state from the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Accord:

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