Tim Pawlenty

Tim Pawlenty's DC Hosts Irked With Pawlenty's DC Appearance

Evan McMorris-Santoro | May 26, 2011, 8:30AM

Tim Pawlenty

On Wednesday the libertarian Cato Institute hosted former Minnesota governor and presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty to talk about his approach to government spending -- or, more accurately, his promise to cut government spending as much as he can. Pawlenty offered up most of what Cato folks wanted to hear: everything's on the table when it comes to balancing the federal budget, he said, except raising taxes and cutting the defense budget.

That last thing caused Pawlenty's hosts a little agita. Huffington Post's Jon Ward reports that the libertarians were unimpressed with his promise to leave the defense budget where it is.

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Crossroads GPS

Both Sides Assail New Anti-Union Ad From Rove-Linked Group

Evan McMorris-Santoro | March 10, 2011, 8:35AM

The big spending group founded by Karl Rove has succeeded in uniting unions and fiscal hawks -- in criticism of the group's new TV ad.

On Wednesday, Crossroads GPS launched a nationwide TV ad attacking the relationship between unions and Democratic politicians.

By the end of the day they had succeeded in putting the National Education Association and the anti-public sector union libertarian think-tank Cato on the same page: the ad, both said, is at best a stretch and at worse untrue. Crossroads disputes the claims and stands by its commercial.

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