My Response To Gov. Bobby Jindal's Response to Pres.
Barak Obama's Response To The Financial Crisis:


On February 24th, after the President’s address to Congress, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal had his shining moment in the light the Republican Party had been promising him since he took a rain check for speaking at the last Republican National Convention. Jindal was tapped to serve the Republican rebuttal to President Obama’s first address to Congress. Last night I saw a rising star fade cold.


Jindal spoke more like Mother Goose reading a bedtime story rather than one who was trying to give a political rebuttal or a leader trying to inspire a nation. One could go down a line by line review of Governor Jindal’s speech and highlight the lies and hypocrisy. The man that said he would refuse additional unemployment assistance from the Federal Government because it would be “wasteful” claimed that he shrunk government in Louisiana when actually he increased it substantially. 3,000 new government jobs were added to the LA payroll while Jindal claimed he reduced positions. The Louisiana Governor claimed he had no veto power over those decisions when truly it was clearly written that he did.


At one point, Jindal began to explain future keypoints to be expounded upon in his coming Presidential campaign. In a moment of self-praise he began to illuminate viewers about his now famous voucher program that gives said vouchers to a select few to attend Private schools on the taxpayer’s dime. My wife had to quiet me as I yelled, “How about tellin’ ‘em how you got that one passed in the Legislature, Bobby!” Somehow Bobby Jindal forgot the recall petition and the Legislature payraise scandal that almost unseated him. He held his office in high regard and masturbated with his so-called accomplishments, reminding America that Louisiana is doing well financially. While Louisiana is doing much better than most, Jindal decidedly left out the fact that federal spending is what will save us in the coming darker years. Apparently it’s ok for Louisiana to receive federal dollars in it’s time of need, but Michigan? Florida? California? Anywhere USA? B.J. considers it all needless spending. Just give ‘em a taxcut.


For a man For a man who claimed that he has the “job he wants” and was going to run for re-election, it did not behoove him to stick to items that addressed only the matter at hand.


The Republican mantra of “Less Taxes, Less Government – Government Bad!” falls on it’s face as it defines what less Government is and for whom tax cuts should be made for. The idea is that governments only can fail. Governments are incapable of achievement unless that achievement is doing away with itself. On one hand, I can buy that argument…kinda. On the other hand, if that is true, end every tax that exists because Americans should not throw away hard earned dollars toward something as fallible as government. Every tax. I say that in jest because we know that the implosion of America into something as foolhardy as Anarchy would be disastrous. But for some reason that is exactly what Republicans base their whole philosophy on.


Bobby Jindal as of late, as most Republicans have for many years, has gotten on my nerves with the sharp language against the 8 ft. fanged monster looming in the closet with the intimidating name of “Big Government.” More often than not the “Big Government” beast is narrowly defined – more taxes, universal health care, regulation, etc. The Republican definition of Big Government is actually any progressive idea that the Democrats try to make manifest, or any idea that is pushed forward by any Conservative that had the tendency to play nice with the Left. Once we escape the talking points and falsehood-drenched speeches we clearly see that the Right has for a very long time been for growing Government.
NSA, anyone?

Republicans are against Big Government unless it’s Big Government they can get behind, like The Patriot Act – unless it’s putting wiretaps on every man, woman and child in America – unless it’s snatching people in the street and throwing them in an unnamed prison to rot perpetually without access to a trial or a lawyer, much less any family. The aforementioned is Big Government the Republicans can get behind.


I reject that my government can’t get anything right. I want my government to FUNCTION. I reject that because FEMA botched the Katrina response that government is incapable of responding to any dilemma. Hurricane Katrina is not an accurate barometer of government’s potential. By stating that governments are doomed to fail and are incapable of getting it right, as politicians they are saying that they are incapable of doing their jobs, which is to govern. Hey, I have a weird idea.
If government is bad, it’s the problem, it’s wrong, it’s something we should have less of, then why do you guys run for political office? By becoming politicians, aren’t you in a contradiction of actions versus beliefs?