Bobby Jindal's speech

[Here4Good]

Link is to full text of Jindal's speech. Can someone please copy/paste the language they consider to be so offensive?

Washington Times - Read full text HERE of GOP response

I didn't find the text particularly objectionable, except that perhaps he echoed Obama's wish list and so I couldn't figure out what the Republican's problem was with the whole agenda. It was the delivery, the way he came across.

Well, the volcano thing was stupid. And:

"This spirit got Louisiana through the hurricanes - and this spirit will get our nation through the storms we face today."

Yes, that and a buuuuuunch of money.

 

[30A Skunkape]

And while we're at it, if the Republican party is going to insist on refering to the President as Barack HUSSEIN Obama...lets be fair and refer to the Governor of Louisiana by his real name too. Its "Piyush Jindal"...Bobby is a name he gave himself.

A reasonable suggestion, if not about 5 years too late. The Louisiana Democrat party made sure that north Louisiana rednecks knew Piyush was his Ganesha-given name during his losing 2003 gubernatorial bid.

 

[traderx]

My favorite was:



Because it's a waste of tax dollars to want some sort of warning if the Seattle suburbs or parts of Alaska, Oregon or Hawaii are about to get covered with lava and ash. Free market should take care of those things, don't cha know?

I've also heard allegations he played loose with the facts while describing the Katrina situation.

The volcano monitoring quip was needless even if you agree. The $8 billion for a new rail? But Keynes said that it doesn't really matter whether government digs a hole and then fills it in or builds new schools as long as the government spends money. The Dems are ensuring that his principles are being honored. Clearly wasteful spending should have been Jindal's focus.

 

[traderx]

A reasonable suggestion, if not about 5 years too late. The Louisiana Democrat party made sure that north Louisiana rednecks knew Piyush was his Ganesha-given name during his losing 2003 gubernatorial bid.

Undoubtedly the liberal population centers and the media were outraged, right?

 

[hnooe]

Guess you don't really need Katie Couric to have your very own Katie Couric type interview.

As long as he doesn't "pal around" with terrorists, I am ready and willing to give him a second chance!

 

[30A Skunkape]

Guess you don't really need Katie Couric to have your very own Katie Couric type interview.

As long as he doesn't "pal around" with terrorists, I am ready and willing to give him a second chance!

I don't understand the analogy. Palin is a ditz with a short reading list. Jindal took bad advice and delivered a speech in a tone reminiscent of a genetic mishmash of Al Gore and Mister Rogers. Jindal has exploitable beliefs, but he is not 'Palinable'.

 

[dgsevier]

a genetic mishmash of Al Gore and Mister Rogers.

 

[hnooe]

I don't understand the analogy. Palin is a ditz with a short reading list. Jindal took bad advice and delivered a speech in a tone reminiscent of a genetic mishmash of Al Gore and Mister Rogers. Jindal has exploitable beliefs, but he is not 'Palinable'.

....and now being a liar has not helped him either......


Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False
By Zachary Roth - February 27, 2009, 12:39PM

Looks like the game is up. Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night -- about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?
Turns out it wasn't actually, you know, true.
In the last few days, first Daily Kos, and then TPMmuckraker, raised serious questions about the story, based in part on the fact that no news reports we could find place Jindal in the affected area at the specific time at issue.
Jindal had described being in the office of Sheriff Harry Lee "during Katrina," and hearing him yelling into the phone at a government bureaucrat who was refusing to let him send volunteer boats out to rescue stranded storm victims, because they didn't have the necessary permits. Jindal said he told Lee, "that's ridiculous," prompting Lee to tell the bureaucrat that the rescue effort would go ahead and he or she could arrest both Lee and Jindal.
But now, a Jindal spokeswoman has admitted to Politico that in reality, Jindal overheard Lee talking about the episode to someone else by phone "days later." The spokeswoman said she thought Lee, who died in 2007, was being interviewed about the incident at the time.
This is no minor difference. Jindal's presence in Lee's office during the crisis itself was a key element of the story's intended appeal, putting him at the center of the action during the maelstrom. Just as important, Jindal implied that his support for the sheriff helped ensure the rescue went ahead. But it turns out Jindal wasn't there at the key moment, and played no role in making the rescue happen.
There's a larger point here, though. The central anecdote of the GOP's prime-time response to President Obama's speech, intended to illustrate the threat of excessive government regulation, turns out to have been made up.

 

[30A Skunkape]

....and now being a liar has not helped him either......


Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False
By Zachary Roth - February 27, 2009, 12:39PM

Looks like the game is up. Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night -- about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?
Turns out it wasn't actually, you know, true.
In the last few days, first Daily Kos, and then TPMmuckraker, raised serious questions about the story, based in part on the fact that no news reports we could find place Jindal in the affected area at the specific time at issue.
Jindal had described being in the office of Sheriff Harry Lee "during Katrina," and hearing him yelling into the phone at a government bureaucrat who was refusing to let him send volunteer boats out to rescue stranded storm victims, because they didn't have the necessary permits. Jindal said he told Lee, "that's ridiculous," prompting Lee to tell the bureaucrat that the rescue effort would go ahead and he or she could arrest both Lee and Jindal.
But now, a Jindal spokeswoman has admitted to Politico that in reality, Jindal overheard Lee talking about the episode to someone else by phone "days later." The spokeswoman said she thought Lee, who died in 2007, was being interviewed about the incident at the time.
This is no minor difference. Jindal's presence in Lee's office during the crisis itself was a key element of the story's intended appeal, putting him at the center of the action during the maelstrom. Just as important, Jindal implied that his support for the sheriff helped ensure the rescue went ahead. But it turns out Jindal wasn't there at the key moment, and played no role in making the rescue happen.
There's a larger point here, though. The central anecdote of the GOP's prime-time response to President Obama's speech, intended to illustrate the threat of excessive government regulation, turns out to have been made up.

A pathetic smear. Meanwhile, back at ground zero this week, the FEMA office in New Orleans is being investigated for dysfunction that would make the most ardent proponent of government-grande pause. Among other allegations is that the employees there were instructed to stall, delay and obstruct recovery as long as possible in order to keep their jobs, many of which pay six figures. Interesting timing in that these allegations have only come to light now that NOLA's beloved champion of graft, Bill Jefferson, has been replaced by freshman congressman Anh Cao.
I saw the Jindal attack on Anderson Cooper earlier tonight. AC's panties were in a wad because Jindal couldn't have been with Harry Lee 'during the storm' like he said he was trying to get rescue boats out. Duh. Who has rescue boats out in a hurricane?

 

[rapunzel]

The volcano monitoring quip was needless even if you agree. The $8 billion for a new rail? But Keynes said that it doesn't really matter whether government digs a hole and then fills it in or builds new schools as long as the government spends money. The Dems are ensuring that his principles are being honored. Clearly wasteful spending should have been Jindal's focus.

It should have been Jindal's focus, but recovery.org gives a good outlet for truly wasteful spending. John McCain tweeted his top ten wasteful spending projects today. Among them, $1 million for a "honey bee factory" in Texas. Turns out, this is actually money to expand the Texas A&M aviary that is doing research on Africanized bee (killer) activity and control as well as colony collapse disorder -- tow huge threats to our agricultural sector and food supply. I just don't see how you call that "pork."

Bobby Jindal is the only Republican I've ever volunteered for...he is brilliant, and I think it says much about the puppetmasters of the Republican party that his speech came off so horribly Tuesday night. Sure, I'm a Democrat...but I still believe in a two party system because it pulls both parties toward a moderate center. Bobby Jindal is a good guy. I may disagree with him on his hard right social policy, but he had a good fiscal point of view. That speech just didn't sound like Bobby. That speech pandered to the base...and that pandering to that whipped up, Limbaughed and Foxed up base is going to get any politician nowhere.

My biggest issue with the Jindal speech, though, was that he kept referring to the Katrina recovery in the past tense. The quarter of New Orleans that was not flooded and destroyed in Katrina may be up and running again, but the recovery is far from complete. I think that anyone that holds up the Katrina recovery as a model for how the US should handle a crisis should be tarred and feathered. It's just so far off from anything I'd heard Jindal say until people started touting him for a 2012 run.

Keynesian, shmensian...all I heard in that speech was a bunch of reactionary language with no plan to address the current crisis. Dominoes bemoaned in a recent post that he only received $75 for an office visit. Jindal slashed reimbursement to $13 for an office visit as head of Louisiana's Health and Human Services division. He was I guy that took unpopular stands in the face of crises. I hope to God the GOP handlers move on to their next "star" and leave Jindal to study problems and formulate real plans. because I know he is better than that speech...and I know he has more talent than to spew a bunch of "government is the problem, capitalists always work in the best interest of the society at large" line that has been completely discredited by events of the last few months. Could someone please fire Rove & Associates? Please?