I'm not being cute with that headline. Pawlenty literally called the president a doofus.
“We don’t have 20 years, we don’t have time for more status quo politicians to just come here and say, we don’t have to make any tough choices. Any doofus can go to Washington and maintain the status quo. And that’s what we’ve got in the White House and the Congress in terms of the attitude about their willingness to tackle these issues.”
And, as Steve Benen notes, it's really difficult for the Republicans -- any Republican -- to make the case that the president is both the most radical liberal in the history of liberals while also maintaining the status quo. Then again, such flagrant contradictions are at the core of the unserious flailing that's become the Republican Party message.