February 23, 2009
More Jindal - UPDATED

Per our weekend discussion, check out Jindal getting tossed a standard issue, quasi-gotcha curveball during a MSM press avail outside the White House. Result: laced down the line for stand-up, RBI double. He's articulate, knowledgeable, and unwavering. More, please.

2/24 AM UPDATE: WaPo previews tonight's post-Obama speech by Jindal.

Posted by Eric Earling at February 23, 2009 03:50 PM | Email This
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1. Why can't we have a governor like Jindal?

Posted by: danno on February 23, 2009 03:50 PM
2. @1 Because he's got an (R) after his name.

Posted by: Palouse on February 23, 2009 04:05 PM
3. And in the meantime, OUR governor and powers that be have spent $250,000 plus postage times 250,000 sending $1 food stamp checks to 250,000 Washingtonians in order to leverage federal money. What a striking contrast. Not much you can buy in a grocery store for $1 any more, and with our strapped budget, spending a total of $335,000 for an attempt at leverage is pretty darn irresponsible.

Posted by: katomar on February 23, 2009 04:19 PM
4. Smart guy. Too bad he's a creationist nutball.

Posted by: brett on February 23, 2009 04:33 PM
5. Jindal is the guy that could lead the GOP back. The Rs also need to have a zero tolerance line towards those of their own party that screw up. The Democrats made a big issue about the "culture of corruption" and have since self immolated on this topic (i.e., Blago, Rangel, Dodd, Geithner, Murtha, etc.) leaving a huge opening for the GOP in 2010 and beyond.

Posted by: Jim T. on February 23, 2009 06:22 PM
6. Brett: Well, I guess I could say you're a Darwinist nutball, but that's just bad manners and not very inclusive. You have a right to your beliefs. Why not Jindal?

Posted by: katomar on February 23, 2009 06:34 PM
7. If only W could have spoken like that, and had actually defended himself and stood up for conservative principles that well.

Why do the to best spoken people in the GOP, Jindal and Huckabee, have to be creationist nutballs?

It's not just a matter of personal belief. This one is hard science. Creationism is just stupid.

Hairy

Posted by: Hairy Buddah on February 23, 2009 07:07 PM
8. "You have a right to your beliefs. Why not Jindal?"

Because beliefs are different from facts -- and creationism is entirely the former, none of the latter. Anyone who thinks this man should be president is kidding themselves, looking too hard for a young Republican to challenge Obama in all the wrong places.

Plus, didn't dude participate in an exorcism or some shit?

Posted by: The King, Elvis on February 23, 2009 08:04 PM
9. Let's remember that "creationist nutballs" are responsible for writing the constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and all of the other relevent documents used to found this great country...

They are also, arguably, some of our best Presidents... Jefferson, Lincoln, Kennedy, Reagan to name but a few.

And make up somewhere north of 50% of the population of this country- if you believe the polls done on the subject.

Just saying...

Posted by: David on February 23, 2009 08:27 PM
10. Once upon a time in America we had a 1st Amendment that recognized the right of all citizens to the freedom to believe in whatever religion they deemed appropriate to their lives.

Apparently we now live in a country where only those religions of compatible with Marxism are acceptable.

Why should I care about Jindal's or Sarah Palin's or even Elvis's beliefs in the creation story of their choosing?

What matters to me in elected government officials is how they manage the affairs of office they are elected to. They don't get to mess with my beliefs and I don't mess with theirs.

Posted by: deadwood on February 23, 2009 08:32 PM
11. Well said, deadwood!

Well said!

Posted by: David on February 23, 2009 08:42 PM
12. Wait, Obama went to Rev Wright's nutball church for 20 years. Was Wright preaching Darwinism there?

Posted by: Palouse on February 23, 2009 08:59 PM
13. Bobby Jindal led the cheers for spending over a trillion dollars in Iraq. He was all for roads, money and spending American lives in Iraq. When it comes to the unemployed in his own state, not so much. Screw the little people who lost their jobs in the Bush economic mess. Screw everyone except the rich who can wait out the impending Bush depression.

Yup - Bobby Jindal is a hero to the hypocrites who want Iraq to succeed and OUR country to fail. Why is Bobby is too stupid to write a law that susnsets unemployment benefits - like every other governor is doing?

Yup - the republicans continue to be the party of the small minority of fools and flat-earthers who deny, confuse and lie about reality.

Posted by: correctnotright on February 23, 2009 09:13 PM
14. I'm an atheist Republican who would like to remind some that Ronald Reagan was very devout but never preached. He, like Jindal, based his strong arguments on sound conservative principles combined with genuine infectious optimism. I was very happy with Reagan and think I could be with Jindal.

So far, Bobby hasn't really taken the bait from either side. Let's hope he doesn't and we don't kill off another potential GOP star.

Gramm, Thompson, Palin – I can’t take seeing another potential leader getting strangled in the crib.

Posted by: Anonymous on February 23, 2009 09:50 PM
15. I'm an atheist Republican who would like to remind some that Ronald Reagan was very devout but never preached. He, like Jindal, based his strong arguments on sound conservative principles combined with genuine infectious optimism. I was very happy with Reagan and think I could be with Jindal.

So far, Bobby hasn't really taken the bait from either side. Let's hope he doesn't and we don't kill off another potential GOP star.

Gramm, Thompson, Palin � I can�t take seeing another potential leader getting strangled in the crib.

Posted by: Anonymous on February 23, 2009 10:07 PM
16. Ummm... would the folks attacking "Creationism" care to define that term? And has Jindal stated that he believes in your definition of it?

Posted by: Mike H on February 23, 2009 10:12 PM
17. #13: It's okay that Obama went to a nutball church that preaches hatred of other races. He's a democrat. So it's okay.

Posted by: Michele on February 24, 2009 01:27 AM
18. Ok folks, now let;s all sing the Democrat national anthem:

God Damn America, laaand that we hate.
Undermine her, then blind her until we become a marxist state.

US of KKK A, don't giver her another day.


Posted by: Patriot on February 24, 2009 07:28 AM
19. It is funny to see the attacks on Jindal here do not try to argue his position or his actions, only to smear him with their bigoted words.

As for spending money in Iraq, for the one billionth time, the defense of this country is the number 1 job of the government. Period. The first dollar spent by our government should be to protect us and our interests, spending money in Iraq is not only legitimate, it is just and right.
Paying "artists" to shit on pictures of religious images, is not the role of the government, as well as paying for irresponsible people'smortgages, or their abortions, etc.

Posted by: thom on February 24, 2009 08:24 AM
20. So Jindal is turning down 2% of the 7.68 Billion that Louisanna is going to get from the Stimulus package - what a joke.

Posted by: Robert on February 24, 2009 08:25 AM
21. Hey, he's free to believe whatever he wants. Anyone is. But no one who doesn't believe in evolution is going to be elected President again - and certainly no one who believes in exorcisms. It's too bad - in every other way, the guy is appealing. But religious extremists are just not electable.

Posted by: brett on February 24, 2009 08:58 AM
22. But no one who doesn't believe in evolution is going to be elected President again

So Obama doesn't believe in creationism? Seems kind of odd for such a religious fellow.

Posted by: Palouse on February 24, 2009 09:09 AM
23. Guys, that same troll has been operating under three or four aliases under this post- sounds like Mr.Wrong.

From what Jindal and his staff calculated, the 2% would have required law changes that would have caused a drain, not a surplus, on the Louisiana economy in the future.

Ever hear of unfunded mandates?

More Jindals are needed to drown the MSM.

Posted by: swatter on February 24, 2009 12:23 PM
24. Jindal is going to get the Palin treatment sooner or later. They will be gunning for him to try and head off any bid he may make for 2012. They are at least as scared of this guy as they were Palin. Maybe more. I think that correctnotright is a perfect example of how their thinking is going at this point. cRaZed. It's pretty humorous when the trolls go apoplectic when somebody DOESN'T take the Fed money but those that didn't take those Bush stimulus checks were heroes to them.

"Hypocrite" back atcha correct-o. You're such a buffoon. Ha, ha, ha!!

Posted by: G Jiggy on February 24, 2009 03:26 PM
25. Jindal is a smart guy and may need a little more seasoning. The left should be scared, because he would match up pretty well with the POTUS right now and he can only get better with time. He is 10 years younger than Obama and was a Rhodes scholar.
#14, #26 and other trolls here are blovating pure flatulence - blow it out your...

Several things I liked hearing - he addressed nuclear power and more offshore oil drilling to use oil until alternative energy methods are more developed, and that we don't want a Government run health care system, which is what the left is salivating for, like a Pavlovian response - without thinking.
You neo-Marxists are laughable - you will probably be disappointed by Obama because he does fully embrace the leftwingnut (i.e. moonbat) agenda, to the relief of 90% of the rest of us.

Posted by: KS on February 24, 2009 08:06 PM
26. Oops above... that should read.

you will probably be disappointed by Obama because he does NOT embrace the leftwingnut (i.e. moonbat) agenda, to the relief of 90% of the rest of us.

Posted by: KS on February 24, 2009 08:21 PM
27. whatever King Shit

Posted by: gop in exile on February 24, 2009 08:51 PM
28. #29 go play in your padded cell.

Posted by: KS on February 24, 2009 08:59 PM
29. You repugs made your own cell, Jindal is the house entertainment, rotfl!

Posted by: gop in exile on February 25, 2009 02:17 PM
30. @20: thom

Yes, defense is the number one priority - and Bush FAILED. He failed to recognize the threat from al qaida, he failed to get bin laden and he wasted lives and money on an unnecessary war in Iraq.

He gets an F. And he wasted over a trillion dollars while simultaneously causing the worst economy since Hoover.

Hard to beat that for complete and utter failure.

@27: to KS the Jindal fan - Jindal may be smart, but he gave a stupid speech with a terrible delivery. If he is the best the GOP has, well, let's just say he shuld be in the minor leagues. He third rate answer to what SHOULD be done gave him away as an intellectual lightweight. The republican plan???? the one written up at the last minute that actually raised taxes on 40 million americans because they forgot to revise the AMT? That piece of poorly written junk that never saw the light of day? He had NO answer becuase there is NO republican plan except more of the same tax cuts and deregulation that got us into this mess in the first place.

Posted by: correctnotright on February 25, 2009 07:23 PM
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