Like all rational Americans, I cringed at the silly, cliche-laden response that Piyush Jindal made to the speech of President Obama in February.
(I couldn't care less what this man is named, but I cannot resist using Jindal's given name after the ignorant, paranoid ravings about "Hussein" that we read on Gather.)
After all the hype offered by the comic entertainer, Rush "Crack-head" Loosebowels, I hoped for something other than the smirking, effeminate weirdo that appeared.
The speech was a pastiche of free-market fundamentalist talking-points, made by the Governor of a state that (in the best of times) free-loads on the taxpayers of other states. Even now, the economic stability of Louisiana reflects the massive government spending by FEMA there.
As it turns out, the dramatic anecdote related to Hurricane Katrina that Piyush told to illustrate his "no government" fundamentalism was a whopping lie.
The cowardly Jindal used his office staff to make a "clarification" when the press could not find any confirmation of the Governor's alleged heroic acts.
The lie was noted in the media, but largely ignored as leading Republicans trampled one another in their rush to distance themselves from Jindal's dismal performance.
Even the nutty conservative Juan Williams, taking a rare break from whining about the way liberals dis him, complained, ""It came off as amateurish, and even the tempo in which he spoke was sing-songy. He was telling stories that seemed very simplistic and almost childish."
I would be content to see the less-than-impressive Jindal sink back into the obscurity he so richly deserves, but I found a very rich source of commentary on a web-page of Scientific American.
One of Jindal's throw-away lines about "wasteful' spending" included a remark about, "something called volcano monitoring".
Careful listeners pointed out that even dull or uneducated persons might understand what "volcano monitoring" was. One has to be willfully or ideologically stupid to pretend that this was a mysterious activity.
Considering that the United States has had two serious volcanic eruptions in the past year, does the idiot Jindal believe that this is 'wasteful"?
Do individuals perform their own "so-called volcano monitoring"?
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Scientific American: Bobby Jindal
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For several decades, LA and MS alternated as the poorest states in the union. FEMA spent money in LA after Katrina but most went to contractors. The promises made in Jackson Square by shrub didn't happen and New Orleans will never be the same. The downtown area and French Quarter are coming back but the school system is broken. I'd like to know what Jindal thinks he has accomplished that might benefit the rest of the country.
Thanks, Ron.
I did not know how Jindal had made his reputation.
I could not imagine what he had done for Louisiana for which the rest of the country might benefit.
The neglect of New Orleans is a blot on the American myth of "can-do" and "come -back".
I do not doubt that Sarah "Shoot From A Plane" Palin is equally ignorant, but on volcano monitoring she protested to Jindal.
I hope that they can still be running mates.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OMG! Too funny!
Mr Jindal picked the name "Bobby" because he liked the character Bobby on the Brady Bunch. I have no problem with this but found it interesting.
Like our president he has a pretty and smart wife. At present she says she does not want him to seek the office of president. Says she is surprised he is governor.
I concur entirely, Kris.
I did not know this.
They have believed their own hype for a very long time.
So far, the Democrats have been more thoughtful and serious about their party's exercise of power.
Jindal may be a capable governor, but he is not going to serve as a rallying point for Americans looking for leadership.
It is never a good thing to be caught telling a huge fib in your first major address.
Do you think that if politicians never took the initiative to coerce exchanges between individuals and some politically-appointed volcano-watching agency, then no one would find it worthwhile to do?
If some product or service is really valuable, demanded or worthwhile, then it would not require initiatory violence or the threat thereof for it to be funded and provided.
Its the old fallacy that Frederic Bastiat alluded to, in responding to the socialists of his day, when he wrote "They might as well accuse of wanting men not to eat, because we object to the cultivation of wheat by the state."
Its not that volcano monitoring isn't a good thing. Eating is a good thing, too; but that doesn't mean that we'd be better off if the state took the initiative to monopolize production and distribution of all food and beverage products.