Hate The Policy But Love The Politician
While I couldn't disagree more with his stance on prescription drug reimportation, I gotta give Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty credit for his plain speaking style:
Amid intensifying debate over reimporting U.S.-made drugs, Gov. Tim Pawlenty took to a national stage Tuesday to tout his plan to help Minnesotans fill their prescriptions more cheaply through Canadian pharmacies.
Pawlenty appeared before a congressional forum that included a familiar face: fellow Minnesota Republican Gil Gutknecht, chief author of a U.S. House bill that would allow Americans to purchase lower-priced drugs from Canada and 24 other industrialized nations.
In what essentially became a pep rally for advocates of legal drug reimportation, both Minnesota politicians drew parallels between growing public anger over soaring drug costs and the historic tax revolt that led to the Boston Tea Party.
"I don't want to overstate this, but there is a rebellion," Pawlenty said in an interview after the hearing. "People are already flipping off the government and doing an end run."
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