Once again displaying a sharper tone to combat the perception that he’s “too nice,” former Gov. Tim Pawlenty called President Obama “chicken” on Monday for not addressing entitlement spending.
“He’s got all this soaring rhetoric, but the fact of the matter is he’s chicken to address the real issues,” Pawlenty said of Obama during an interview on “Fox and Friends.”
Pawlenty also said that Obama “whiffed” on the State of the Union, which he labeled abysmal.
Pawlenty has gone after the president several times over the past few weeks as he inches closer to a presidential run. The biggest knock on Pawlenty’s presidential ambitions is that he lacks “pizzazz,” and is simply too nice.
The Fox anchor picked up on Pawlenty’s remark, and asked if they were seeing a “tougher Tim Pawlenty.” As he often handles that question by mentioning "Minnesota nice," Pawlenty responded: “Don’t confuse being nice with being weak.”
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U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen welcomes his friend and housemate back, three months after Rep. Steve Scalise was gunned down at a congressional baseball practice.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar appeared on The Daily Show Tuesday night to talk about getting things done in Congress, lowering drug prices and the direction of the Democratic party.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar will appear on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" at 10 p.m. today. She'll be the second Minnesota politician in recent months to appear, after Rep. Ilhan Omar came on in July.
A Duluth native who just barely lost Virginia's GOP gubernatorial primary said that politicians have not gone far enough in condemning the left for violence during a rally of white nationalists in Charlottesville. "I think that the left is going to try to use this as an excuse to crack down on conservative free speech," said Corey Stewart. "I think they're going to try to use this as an excuse to remove more historical monuments."
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this week launched digital ads against U.S. Reps. Jason Lewis, Erik Paulsen, and 23 other GOP lawmakers.
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