Why do you think this man is laughing?
Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota who criticized Wall Street while running for president last year, is joining the Financial Services Roundtable as president and chief executive officer.
Pawlenty…will take over from the retiring Steve Bartlett as CEO of the Washington-based group that represents 100 of the biggest financial-services companies, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America. Corp. and Citigroup Inc. The new job means quitting his post as national co-chairman of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign…
In a Bloomberg Television interview last year before he ended his presidential run and joined Romney’s campaign, Pawlenty said his “truth message to Wall Street is going to be, ‘Get your snout out of the trough’.” He was viewed as a potential Romney running mate before the former Massachusetts governor selected Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
Pawlenty, who campaigned as a “Sam’s Club Republican” concerned with issues affecting the middle class, will represent the interests of the large financial firms across a broad range of business, from insurance giants such as State Farm Insurance Cos. and money managers including BlackRock Inc. to payment networks like Visa…
In a statement, Romney said…“While I regret he cannot continue as co-chair of my campaign, his new position advancing the integrity of our financial system is vital to the future of our country”…
He may also receive a substantial raise. Bartlett was paid $1.8 million in 2010, according to the group’s IRS filings for that year. Pawlenty’s most recent salary as governor was $121,000, according to a 2011 financial filing for his presidential bid. Scott Talbott, a senior vice president of public policy at the Financial Services Roundtable, declined to share Pawlenty’s salary information.
Musical jobs among the politicians of America, two pantywaist parties and the corporate plutocrats who own our lawmakers, legal system and judges – continues without missing a beat.
I hear America singing. And it ain’t Bob Dylan.
Pawlenty did a good job as governor of Minnesota. When the Democrats in charge of the legislature refused to pass a balanced budget without tax increases, he used his power of unallotment to balance the budget by cutting whatever spending he deemed necessary to cut. Sadly his successor the Target heir Mark Dayton did not do the same.
As with everything else in life, the smartest most competent people will be good at whatever they set about to do. Be it:
strengthening the social safety net, or
getting the operation within budget, or
getting the operation within balance, or
running the most corrupt lobbying firm there is.
Plato described it 2500 years ago as the Philosopher King deciding to run a den of thieves.
Nothing changes.
Is that any different then a former politician becoming a high paid lobbyist? I know plenty of Democrat’s and Republican’s that have done just that. Why is it that some people hate people that make money? Some argue Romney’s view of Top down economics is wrong? But is that not the way it is everywhere in the World?
The Robin Hood ideology that Obama and some Democrat’s have it just vapor ideals of a Utopia that never has and never will happen.
Gee John–every thing you say is wrong or idiotic. I’ll even bet John isn’t your real name.
You post as if you think the CEO of a Lobbying Firm doesn’t do any lobbying himself.
You can’t be more stupid than that.
………well, thinking trickle down economics works all over the world does trump that.
What a maroon.
It looks like getting passed over for Romney’s VP slot was the best thing that ever happened to Pawlenty. Mr. Ryan wasn’t quite so lucky.
No Alfie–I said and its clear that change from the outside comes from VOTERS. What they need to do is SWEEP IN a hope and change candidate just like Obama. By SWEEP IN, I mean give them strong majorities in House and Senate.
for too long the balance has been too close between Good and Bad, Progress and Luddite, Dem and Puke, Rich vs Poor, Status Quo vs Change. We have had a Congress stalemated at Control by Corporations for about 50 years now. Corporations, Military, Banks, Pharmacy etc==all corporations.
Hard to see how a sweep will come when a candidate as empty as Rmoney can still do so well. But it will come……. eventually. Always with more pain and suffering that was needed…….because …….. people are gullible and fail to vote their own self interest.
Stoopid Hoomans.
Revisionist history, Obama swept in with clear majorities and rammed stimulus, health care and a host of other useless things down our protesting throats….
Yet he says he can’t change things…he already did, turning it all to crap.
As an Obamaphile, you should be able to point to his accomplishments with pride….instead of attacking the GOP as a diversion.
Fact is, Honey Boo Boo would be a better President.
Even Honey Boo Boo would be an improvement over Obama.
Why not a blog on that?
Republicans have finally stopped pretending to care about the country and now openly support their corporate masters.
Could be worse. You could have a tax cheat be the Secretary of the Treasury.