The stinking pile of corruption and lies in the governor's office grows ever larger and smells even stronger. Will Minnesotans notice the odor and clean up the mess by showing Pawlenty and Awada out the door? Seems just as unlikely as it is appropriate.

Governor Tim Pawlenty is now calling for the death penalty in Minnesota in reaction to the disappearance of a young woman from Pequot Lakes.

What a big fat lying hypocrite. Let's see — he's anti-abortion because an abortion is killing a potential life and all life is sacred. But he's in favor of putting people to death who have committed a couple of nasty crimes but haven't actually killed anybody (if one can even justify the death penalty in cases of murder). He's a lawyer but spouts off about the death penalty for a man never convicted of any crime for which the death penalty can be imposed. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled it is not allowed in cases of rape, for example. Pawlenty must have done poorly in law school.

Pawlenty is just playing dirt-ball politics at a time when people are expressing concern over this young woman's disappearance.

What a loser.