pact

In a stunning admission by GOP presidential hopeful, Tim Pawlenty, he informs us of what we already knew:

PAWLENTY: Well, anybody who’s going to run for this office who’s been in an executive position, or may run, has got some clunkers in their record. Laura, mine I think are fewer and less severe than most. As to climate change, or more specifically cap-and-trade, I’ve just come out and admitted it — look, it was a mistake, it was stupid. [...]

Everybody in the race, well at least the big names in the race, embraced climate change or cap-and-trade at one point or another. Every one of us.

As Think Progress points out:

Indeed, from Pawlenty to Mitt Romney to Newt Gingrich to Mike Huckabee to Mitch Danlies to Sarah Palin, many of the leading contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination have reversed themselves on climate change to pander to their hard-right base over the past few years.

What I haven’t heard yet is why? Why have all these candidates flip-flopped? Is it just to appease their radical base, or do they have some of their own scientific evidence debunking global warming?

This guy is beyond the pale.

Of course you are, Pat... after you come out with outlandishly despicable statements about why Haiti has had to deal with so much death, so many troubles. See, according to Televangelist Pat it's because they"swore a pact at the Devil" in order to free themselves from the French.

"True story. So the devil said 'okay, it's a deal'".

That's why this horrific earthquake took place. Haiti asked for it. Did you know that? Apparently this Pat Robertson does.

I guess Pat would know about the Devil. My sources tell me that he has a direct line.

FLASHBACK: Pat Robertson and his diamond mines:

Should a "good Christian" profit from diamonds and lumber mined by the functional equivalent of slave labor?

Like I said – Pat Robertson is the Devil.

It looks like Bush is moving ahead with talks on his US/Iraq pact treaty:

The Iraqi government will begin talks
with U.S. officials later in February on a pact that would lay
the basis for long-term strategic ties between Washington and
Baghdad, an Iraqi official said on Monday.

Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Prime Minister
Nuri al-Maliki, President Jalal Talabani, Iraq's two vice
presidents and the leaders of major political blocs had met on
Sunday to discuss the pact.

The most interesting part comes at the very end of the article:

The negotiations are not expected to determine future U.S.
troop numbers in Iraq but will focus on the role of American
forces. Iraq has said it will never let the United States have
permanent bases on Iraqi soil.

Yeah Iraq has said that, but Bush hasn't. As matter of fact he did one of his famous signing statements last week to make sure he has the authority to put bases there.