Jindal’s response
Can’t he say “president” properly?
February 24, 2009 10:23 pm
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125 Responses
Bret - February 24, 2009 | 10:27 pm · Link
Jesus, is it me or does he sound just like Holly Hunter?
flounder - February 24, 2009 | 10:28 pm · Link
Did Jindal just say his mother was 4 1/2 months pregnant when she anchored here? In wingnut math, doesn’t this make him ineligible forPresident?
Conservatively Liberal - February 24, 2009 | 10:28 pm · Link
No. He’s a dork. He sounds like he is doing an instructional video for K-Mart.
Conservatively Liberal - February 24, 2009 | 10:33 pm · Link
Them lines don’t lie. Here comes the pledge…
Principals? What principals do they have left? What a joke.
demkat620 - February 24, 2009 | 10:35 pm · Link
He went for the whiskey.
He chose poorly.
gopher2b - February 24, 2009 | 10:36 pm · Link
He was jerking around so much in the beginning I thought he was having a seizure. I think he actually put his hand in his pocket once there.
Its the first time I ever heard him speak. He sucked.
Conservatively Liberal - February 24, 2009 | 10:36 pm · Link
Oooh, Tweety is on a tear. Ouch!
Throwin Stones - February 24, 2009 | 10:37 pm · Link
Katrina was a Repubican model?
Polish the Guillotines - February 24, 2009 | 10:37 pm · Link
Game, set, match.
TheFountainHead - February 24, 2009 | 10:37 pm · Link
He reminded me of Woody from Toy Story. Don’t know why.
TheHatOnMyCat - February 24, 2009 | 10:37 pm · Link
They are literally laughing at him at MSNBC.
That wasn’t just bad, it was epic fail comic laugh out loud bad.
OMG.
I hardly know what to say. Except, Thank you, Bobby Jindal.
Third Eye Open - February 24, 2009 | 10:39 pm · Link
This is the guy the GOoPers are hoping to save them in 2012?
I wonder how he going to like being made to wear white-face for the comfort of the base?
Brian J - February 24, 2009 | 10:39 pm · Link
I didn’t catch all of it, because my tea wasn’t ready in time, so I missed the line about Democrats increasing the strength of the country by increasing dependency on government. Did I miss any other gems like that?
Anyway, I’m now watching Mark Shields and David Brooks bash him on PBS. It’s pretty amusing to watch Shields talk about how Jindal is disconnected from reality by using a line like that.
Of course, I get that there’s some politicking to be done in a response like that, but there’s a difference between illustrating a philosophy of limited government and acting like a tool. It doesn’t seem like Jindal has figured out that difference just yet.
JGabriel - February 24, 2009 | 10:39 pm · Link
Someone should tell Jindal that lying about a train from Vegas to Disney isn’t going to help his pleas for trust.
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Just Some Fuckhead - February 24, 2009 | 10:39 pm · Link
Jindal totally sucked. He has a bright future as a cartoon character.
Porco Rosso - February 24, 2009 | 10:39 pm · Link
Governor McLovin?
Litlebritdifrnt - February 24, 2009 | 10:40 pm · Link
@flounder:
Yes. Lets see how that plays out in 2012. Because of course come 2012 THAT WILL NOT MATTER!
dmsilev - February 24, 2009 | 10:40 pm · Link
Note to Republicans: Being the follow-up act to a Barack Obama speech is a Bad Idea. Please keep it up.
-dms
Bad Horse's Filly - February 24, 2009 | 10:40 pm · Link
This guy is the savior of the Repub party? Makes me long for Palin’s wink and a smile. (might be on the open thread, but it crashed while posting, so I thought I’d repost here)
Pseudofool - February 24, 2009 | 10:41 pm · Link
Jindal would probably make a good kindergarten teacher on the other hand.
Seanly - February 24, 2009 | 10:42 pm · Link
Ugh, Jindal has that annoying "whistle on trailing S" that the old white guys in Arkansas have.
I had never heard Jindal speak never. He is horrible. His tone is very condescending. And each time he tries to invoke his regular American-ness, I just picture some of my Indian engineer professors as his homespun American-loving dad (I’m sure his dad did love the US ~ just saying his appeal to Bush-like regular guy is falling flat on me).
Oh, and as a structural engineer in the infrastructure business, can I just say fuck you to all the Republicans who keep poo-pooing the stimulus plan? We need $2.2 trillion to fix our infrastructure. The $90 billion is a nice little appetizer but we need a lot more.
Oh and as his lies keep piling up, this jerk Jindal is pissing me off more & more. The Southern states live off the largess of the federal government. These poor states just cut income taxes while raising fees and regressive taxes. The Republican scheme didn’t work, doesn’t work and won’t work.
Dave - February 24, 2009 | 10:42 pm · Link
That was an epic fail.
Invoking Katrina? Making up stuff about high-speed rail? And no new ideas?
This is the GOP’s shining light?? They are well and truly fucked.
fledermaus - February 24, 2009 | 10:44 pm · Link
i’m still trying to figure out how a sheriff is not part
of government
Litlebritdifrnt - February 24, 2009 | 10:46 pm · Link
I love Rachael so much, (I think I have a girly crush), after Jindal’s response she said "I am paid to speak, I cannot right now"
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse - February 24, 2009 | 10:47 pm · Link
As a whole bunch of people have already said, Bobby Jindall = Kenneth the page from 30 Rock.
He does! It’s not just the accent, it’s that silly story about the sheriff, and his anger about monitoring volcanoes instead of—well, whatever we’re supposed to monitor instead.
Random Kenneth Quotes
merrinc - February 24, 2009 | 10:47 pm · Link
Geesh, that bobblehead inflection made for a painful listening experience.
Just Some Fuckhead - February 24, 2009 | 10:48 pm · Link
Jesus, is Barbara Boxer really wearing giant clown buttons?
Brian J - February 24, 2009 | 10:48 pm · Link
I get that this was a way to try to do what Obama was doing by saying crisis can be an opportunity, but using the destruction of a city in your state by the incompetence of a president from your party as the example of something like that isn’t good. Imagine the sort of fun the people at the DNC are going to have with that one if he runs for president.
kay - February 24, 2009 | 10:48 pm · Link
David Gergen doesn’t understand the point of Jindal’s speech.
His huge brow is all furrowed. He can’t talk about it yet. He’s a little upset.
TR - February 24, 2009 | 10:49 pm · Link
Kenneth the Page from "30 Rock"
valdivia - February 24, 2009 | 10:50 pm · Link
I am not usually a fan of Foer in TNr but this is great great take on Jindal.
Delia - February 24, 2009 | 10:50 pm · Link
@Conservatively Liberal:
That’s good. I was going to say he sounds like the third string of the high school debate squad.
But I really liked his "Americans can do anything" refrain. Personally, I’m holding out for growing wings and flying, especially now that I won’t be able to afford airline tickets anymore.
trollhattan - February 24, 2009 | 10:50 pm · Link
Yglesias:
I’ve nothing to add.
TheFountainHead - February 24, 2009 | 10:50 pm · Link
@fledermaus: Me too. Let me know when you crack that one.
Smerp - February 24, 2009 | 10:51 pm · Link
Where is the video of Rachel Maddow reacting to Jindal’s speech. It’s priceless, and needs to be up on Youtube now.
The stupid, it was too strong for her.
sgwhiteinfla - February 24, 2009 | 10:52 pm · Link
From Rick Sanchez’s twitter
Jindal is going to get pwned all day tomorrow
Ned R. - February 24, 2009 | 10:52 pm · Link
@Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse:
Won’t that turn Jonah Goldberg against him? I seem to remember that was one of his strange obsessions, volcano lancing, along with Trek and the Simpsons.
Hana - February 24, 2009 | 10:52 pm · Link
As someone who remembers wearing a face mask when Mt. St. Helens blew, I’m kinda, you know, in favor of monitoring volcanoes.
Mr Furious - February 24, 2009 | 10:52 pm · Link
Jindal’s volcano line just about had me on the floor.
Yeah, unplug all those earthquake monitors too. Fucking science-y machines…
Brian J - February 24, 2009 | 10:52 pm · Link
Do you anticipate that there will be more money coming towards stuff like that in the following months? I hope so. I’m trying to tell myself that Obama was listening to people like Alice Rivlin, who said that it should be an expenditure independent of stimulus because then we start to think that it’s only appropriate as stimulus, when it’s necessary during good times and bad.
WereBear - February 24, 2009 | 10:53 pm · Link
I figured the long delay before Jindal came out was because someone was prying him out of the bathroom…
"Where’s the butter knife? We got to get him out of there!"
Fern - February 24, 2009 | 10:54 pm · Link
So how’d this guy get to be a governor?
sgwhiteinfla - February 24, 2009 | 10:54 pm · Link
Sanchez again
Time for some new talking points Rethugs!
JR - February 24, 2009 | 10:54 pm · Link
I was so distracted by Bobby the Page’s inflection, I didn’t even notice what he said.
Dave - February 24, 2009 | 10:55 pm · Link
Is there anyone in Wingnuttia who thinks Jindal did a good job?
Dulcie - February 24, 2009 | 10:55 pm · Link
Three words – Kenneth.The.Page
Jon H - February 24, 2009 | 10:55 pm · Link
Car dealers and manufacturing workers around the nation said "WTF?" when Jindal dismissed as waste the idea of spending $300 million on new cars for the government.
TR - February 24, 2009 | 10:56 pm · Link
Yeah, unplug all those earthquake monitors too. Fucking science-y machines…
This is, after all, a man who once performed an exorcism.
Just Some Fuckhead - February 24, 2009 | 10:56 pm · Link
@Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse: Spending eruptions.
kommrade reproductive vigor - February 24, 2009 | 10:56 pm · Link
Silly DougJ, proper pronunciation is for dirty fucking hippies!
I didn’t even watch. I always wind up feeling sorry for anyone who has to follow that act.
TheHatOnMyCat - February 24, 2009 | 10:57 pm · Link
From TNR. Loved it so much just had to paste it in here.
Hana - February 24, 2009 | 10:57 pm · Link
I wonder if he’s opposed to monitoring hurricanes and floods too? Levee strength? Cholesterol levels?
Smerp - February 24, 2009 | 10:57 pm · Link
@Fern:
The same way that Sarah Palin did, of course.
TR - February 24, 2009 | 10:58 pm · Link
Whoops, just saw all the seconds of my Kenneth comparison in the other thread. Sorry to repeat it here, but the site was loading slow.
I can only assume Bobby Jindal’s solution to the deficit is to unloose the Hill Witch on it.
TheHatOnMyCat - February 24, 2009 | 10:58 pm · Link
Have you been to Louisiana?
Heh.
Great catfish, though. I mean, really good.
Just Some Fuckhead - February 24, 2009 | 10:58 pm · Link
@Fern: Hell, if we’re gonna stop monitoring volcanoes, I say we quit monitoring hurricanes too. Jindal can just call us and tell us how they’re going..
PC - February 24, 2009 | 10:58 pm · Link
It’s the new manimal.
Laura W - February 24, 2009 | 10:59 pm · Link
@kay: I was looking for you on the previous thread in hopes you’d announce McCain was holding an impromptu Town Hall once Obama left the building.
sgwhiteinfla - February 24, 2009 | 10:59 pm · Link
Sanchez again
Amen brother!
Third Eye Open - February 24, 2009 | 10:59 pm · Link
Even the ardent whiners at LGF think Jindal was horrible. This is going to be fun
Comrade Jake - February 24, 2009 | 11:00 pm · Link
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I laughed. Hard.
Farley - February 24, 2009 | 11:01 pm · Link
Was this response pre-recorded? Because Jindal said "don’t let anyone tell you that our best days are behind us," twenty minutes after Obama said that our best days are ahead of us.
Disconnect on maximum.
This "speech" was clearly not a rebuttal, but a synopsis of what Jindal considers to be his long history of political victories. 2012, here we come.
Ned R. - February 24, 2009 | 11:02 pm · Link
@Dave:
From everyone’s favorite editor at NRO —dare to dream, Ms. Lopez:
Jindal [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
does exude a practical hope, rooted in things that work. And he forces the point that politics should be about ideas — competing ideas — and that the best ones should win.
You can tell, though, that he’s used to just speaking (because he can) and not delivering prepared speeches.
UPDATE: The MSNBC commentators look very unhappy and Rachel Maddow was speechless.
02/24 10:36 PM
...
re: re: Jindal [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
E-mails I’m getting are from disappointed conservatives. They wanted a full-throated response to Obama and expected and/or wanted more. I wonder how many watched the response as if Bobby Jindal were the single alternative to what we’ve got now. Of course, if Jindal were to run in four our eight years, he’d have more experience and more national speeches under his belt by then.
02/24 10:52 PM
Comrade Jake - February 24, 2009 | 11:03 pm · Link
Candy Crowley is on CNN warning the viewers that the poll of Obama’s speech is only based on those who watched the speech.
I’m not kidding.
Fulcanelli - February 24, 2009 | 11:03 pm · Link
Witness the textbook definition of the "Fool’s Errand".
After Obama’s barn burner, Jindal jumps into the ring with a potato peeler to repel Obama’s laser guided bunker buster.
Fuck yeah, Bobby, bring it on. and when you’re done I’ll have an order of the Nan bread, the vegetable Pakora, the Chicken Vindaloo and the Gulab Jamun for desert to cleanse the palatte. And, uh, hey take this glass back and get me a clean one, would ya? And some ice water, this Vindaloo is some hot stuff…
But hey cheer up Bobby, Joe the Plumber has been mobilized to help provide visibility. It sez so on this ad over there on the left side of the page!
Jindal’s response reminds me of Andy Kaufman’s Mighty Mouse skit. What a maroon.
Conservatively Liberal - February 24, 2009 | 11:03 pm · Link
He sounds like some kid that Disney would hire to narrate a kids video, and the wingnutz think this guy is ready for prime time?
Who said that the Rushublicans can’t do comedy, this shit is gold! What, it’s not intentional? Even better!
Brian J - February 24, 2009 | 11:03 pm · Link
@Laura W:
Now that I think about it, perhaps the incredible resistance to the president’s agenda from Republicans and their awful attitudes is attributable to Obama’s refusal to do town hall forums with McCain. Maybe the recession is lasting longer than necessary because of this, too. It makes perfect sense, no?
Delia - February 24, 2009 | 11:04 pm · Link
Well, it all makes perfect sense. Katrina happened on the gooper watch. The government did jackshit and New Orleans is still a mess.
The financial meltdown happened on the gooper watch. So the dems got swept into office to do something about it. Obama gives a masterful speech outlining what to do about it . . . . and the goopers pick the guv of Louisiana to advocate doing jackshit about it and using Katrina as an example of how well it will all work out.
Laura W - February 24, 2009 | 11:04 pm · Link
@Comrade Jake: Yeah but she’s wearing a CHARTREUSE GREEN blouse while saying it.
Lee - February 24, 2009 | 11:05 pm · Link
I have not heard it, but read the exerpts on cnn.
Did he really say that the stimulus contained tax INCREASES?
Andrew - February 24, 2009 | 11:06 pm · Link
Cutting volcano monitoring funding is how Jindal is going to get rid of Palin.
Just Some Fuckhead - February 24, 2009 | 11:06 pm · Link
I sure hope Rich Lowry didn’t have starbursts during Jindal’s speech. You know the stoopid shit he writes when he’s got a candybuzz going…
Litlebritdifrnt - February 24, 2009 | 11:07 pm · Link
Britty + 5 heinekens (disclaimer) I mean what the fuck? The POTUS gives probably one of the greatest SOTU (sort of) speeches of all time and all Jindal can come up with is "tax cuts" and "Katrina" I mean WTF? You counter an Obama "health care now" speech with "we have to be nice to rich people" speech? Holy crap. I am like Rachael beyond words.
Jon H - February 24, 2009 | 11:07 pm · Link
"The government did jackshit and New Orleans is still a mess."
But Jindal has the fix for the nation’s schools. Just render the schools physically unusable due to natural disaster, then rebuild from scratch.
Oh, and it probably made the job easier that the population of New Orleans was decimated, particularly among the poorest neighborhoods.
Step 1: Remove many poor people
Step 2: Make charter schools
Step 3: Tax cuts!
Ninerdave - February 24, 2009 | 11:07 pm · Link
I thought it was a great speech. I want him to speak after Obama at every SOTU.
Dave - February 24, 2009 | 11:08 pm · Link
Jai ho, Bobby Jindal!
Throwin Stones - February 24, 2009 | 11:09 pm · Link
@TheHatOnMyCat: the slushee drive-thrus rock (when you’re underage)
/longago
Farley - February 24, 2009 | 11:10 pm · Link
I cannot exorcise his voice out of my head. Someone help me.
Dungheap - February 24, 2009 | 11:10 pm · Link
I posted this elsewhere, but I thought it work pointing out on the "volcano monitoring" line. He’s lying. This is what the conference report says about that $140,000,000:
Jackass.
Farley - February 24, 2009 | 11:12 pm · Link
@Dungheap: Silly. There are no volcanoes in red states. His anti-volcano propaganda will resonate with the base.
RandyH - February 24, 2009 | 11:12 pm · Link
Someone alert the wingnut american-blood purists!
During Jindal’s response, he admitted that his parents immigrated to the US while his mother was pregnant with him. That can only mean…...
He’s an anchor-baby!
Oh NOES!
Jon H - February 24, 2009 | 11:12 pm · Link
Note Jindal’s tale of how he was delivered on the installment plan because his father couldn’t pay the doctor bill.
Yeah. Individually crafted installment plans between patient and doctor. That’ll scale. That’s a model. That’s a good use of physician time.
Leelee for Obama - February 24, 2009 | 11:12 pm · Link
Foer FTW!
I hated myself for laughing at a torture reference, but there it is!
RareSanity - February 24, 2009 | 11:13 pm · Link
Commenter at LGF:
Don’t come on and sound like you are trying to sell me a car or re-finance my home.
This is the reason Republicans are in such deep doo-doo…..politicians like Jindal who think they can charm people with stupid anecdotes rather than facts and policy.
I guess they don’t want have a beer with him…
Oh, and this one:
Who knew that we would move so quickly from 8 years of utter disaster to untold years of pure comedy?
Conservatively Liberal - February 24, 2009 | 11:13 pm · Link
From Erick the Redneck over at RedNeckState:
What an
class act.dslak - February 24, 2009 | 11:13 pm · Link
Can we do without mocking his ethnicity?
Zzyzx - February 24, 2009 | 11:15 pm · Link
I wonder if Jindal thinks funding for research to learn how to track hurricane is a waste of money. Idiot.
...and I’m not just saying that because I can see an active volcano on a clear day.
Fulcanelli - February 24, 2009 | 11:15 pm · Link
Would the last one leaving the GOP please turn out the lights? The country’s on this green, energy saving kick these days…
maya - February 24, 2009 | 11:15 pm · Link
I just don’t trust guys with close-set, beady little eyes. Bush had them. It’s my prejudice.
Also, he looks Muslim.
Comrade Jake - February 24, 2009 | 11:16 pm · Link
Apparently Brooks unloaded on Jindaleeny on PBS. I look forward to that video.
JGabriel - February 24, 2009 | 11:16 pm · Link
Ninerdave:
Seconded!
.
dslak - February 24, 2009 | 11:17 pm · Link
@maya: Okay, now that was funny.
RareSanity - February 24, 2009 | 11:17 pm · Link
Crap, all my formatting got screwed up.
take two:
Comrade Stuck - February 24, 2009 | 11:18 pm · Link
@Farley:
Click your heels three times and holler wingnut be gone.
gnomedad - February 24, 2009 | 11:19 pm · Link
We need more volcano entrepreneurs.
JenJen - February 24, 2009 | 11:19 pm · Link
Olbermann thought his mic was off when Jindal walked out, and he said, quite loudly, "Oh, gaaaaaaawd."
It was the funniest part of the entire evening… well, until Jindal started speaking, of course.
Rachel’s response to Jindal’s speech was perfect. And Tweety? You go, big boy! Although I’m surprised nobody at MSNBC called Jindal on repeating the Great Zombie Disneyland-Vegas Train Lie.
kay - February 24, 2009 | 11:21 pm · Link
@Laura W:
Gergen said, after he regained his composure, "with all due respect…Governor Jindal didn’t do what he needed to do".
The WSJ tv-hack is now yelling. He’s near tears. He insists there’s a silent majority who hate Democrats.
Farley - February 24, 2009 | 11:22 pm · Link
@Fulcanelli: Perhaps Republicans can now be relegated to generating electricity by riding stationary bikes in the dark, windowless basements in the green socialist mansions of the future.
trollhattan - February 24, 2009 | 11:22 pm · Link
Don’t tell bobby about the Yellowstone Caldera—one bad muthafuggah:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
Just Some Fuckhead - February 24, 2009 | 11:23 pm · Link
@RareSanity: Ya know who was really good at anecdotes but suckie with facts and policy? Ronald Fucking Reagan.
Fulcanelli - February 24, 2009 | 11:25 pm · Link
Hey as bad as it was, it could have been Sarah Palin delivering a 15 minute, Starburst™ festooned plethora of politically incoherent lies, damn lies and statistics. Count your blessings!
dog's eye view - February 24, 2009 | 11:27 pm · Link
Yeah, it’s been quite a week for those of Indian heritage.
Slumdog soars.
Jindal tanks.
Jon H - February 24, 2009 | 11:27 pm · Link
Jindal didn’t stick the dismount.
Comrade Jake - February 24, 2009 | 11:28 pm · Link
Maddow’s about to have Ann Marie Cox on her show to help her make sense of the Jindal abomination. I suspect it will be highly entertaining.
Comrade Jake - February 24, 2009 | 11:30 pm · Link
Nate Silver’s take:
Crushed.
Laura W - February 24, 2009 | 11:31 pm · Link
@JenJen: I think Rachel and Ana Marie Cox are about to be mean girls in a few minutes.
Whoops. Jake beat me.
MazeDancer - February 24, 2009 | 11:32 pm · Link
Clearly Bobby Jindal’s 2012 opponents knew this was a fine opportunity to have America be exposed to Bobby’s speaking style.
Just Some Fuckhead - February 24, 2009 | 11:33 pm · Link
If Republicans want to deregulate volcanoes now is a supervolcano far behind?
Comrade Spock - February 24, 2009 | 11:35 pm · Link
I can’t say it any better than the guys at The New Republic: Obama was wrong. We haven’t outlawed all forms of torture.
Farley - February 24, 2009 | 11:38 pm · Link
@Just Some Fuckhead: The ultimate motherfucking WMD.
Mr. Tactful - February 24, 2009 | 11:42 pm · Link
The above potato peeler reference is the funniest reference to any sort of vegetable peeler, ever.
Ned R. - February 24, 2009 | 11:43 pm · Link
Some deep entertainment here I just noticed—Gerson clearly wrote this before Jindal said anything:
The Jindal Phenomenon
flounder - February 24, 2009 | 11:43 pm · Link
I think he just winked at me!
Jon H - February 24, 2009 | 11:48 pm · Link
@Ned R.: "Gerson clearly wrote this before Jindal said anything"
Not like it would matter. Gerson would say Jindal shat gold bricks and diamonds during the rebuttal if he thought it would be politically advantageous.
He was Bush’s speechwriter. A vast delta between reality and rhetoric is something he learned to ignore long, long ago.
Mazacote Yorquest - February 25, 2009 | 1:41 am · Link
Republicans and Democrats may not have liked the speech, but the designers of the Microsoft Zune thought it matched Obama’s speech quite well.
Cain - February 25, 2009 | 2:03 am · Link
@flounder:
Well shit, don’t whip your dick out here, take it somewhere else!
cain
passerby - February 25, 2009 | 2:40 am · Link
Good god a’mighty. I’ve know Jindal to be a good orator and pretty fast on his feet. But tonight, tonight he sounded and looked like one of those audio-animatronic robots at Disney land.
I shook my head thru the whole delivery thinking I’ve never seen something this bad in content and delivery in my whole life.
Solidly and completely cringe worthy. Who’s advising him??? The inclusion of his personal story was wholly inappropriate here.
I noticed that instead of sitting on the arm of a sofa with a fire in the background, or sitting next to a coffee table with a plant on it, they had him come out of a hallway like the president does when he give a briefing at the White House.
He was obviously engaged in naked campaigning and boy, did he look and sound dumb.
Epic fail. Wonder if Eric Cantor thinks this went swimmingly.
AnotherBruce - February 25, 2009 | 3:09 am · Link
So Rush thinks that Jindal is the next Ronald Reagan? I have to agree, his political career is as thoroughly dead as Ronnie.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford - February 25, 2009 | 8:37 am · Link
@JenJen:
JenJen – I think that was Chris Matthews who sighed the "oh gawd".
slightly_peeved - February 25, 2009 | 8:55 am · Link
If they’re so great, why aren’t they governor? Can they deliver a speech better than that guy? I had a bass on my wall that could.
Laura W - February 25, 2009 | 9:22 am · Link
@slightly_peeved:
That is so damn funny, even at half MDR of caffeine.
CalD - February 25, 2009 | 10:17 am · Link
Let’s try him out on "nuclear."
les - February 25, 2009 | 10:48 am · Link
On Charlie Rose, suck-up in chief David Brooks called Jindal’s speech the worst response to a political speech in the history of democracy, worse than (some other old Greek guy) responding to Plato. Sorry I missed an historic event.
SDI - February 25, 2009 | 1:03 pm · Link
OH MY GOD. You people are so stupid. Jesus Christ.
He wasn’t saying Volcano Monitoring is stupid, he was saying in the context of being in any emergency economy bill it SHOULD NOT be in there. Why the hell should it be in an emergency bill that is devoted to helping the ECONOMY? This isn’t the Volcano Prevention Stimulus Package Bill Omnibus. Somehow liberals defend over 8,000 earmarks. Somehow. And then they log on to their computers from their mom’s basements and make negative comments.
Guess what guys, you AREN’T the majority. You won’t be deciding the election in 2012, nobody believes in this liberal bullshit. And nobody believes in all this negativity. This isn’t change we can believe in it’s freaking change we can dole out.
Pathetic.
Trollhattan - February 25, 2009 | 3:43 pm · Link
Heh-heh, this #124 feller is a pretty goddamn funny parody, I must say. Well played sir, although you forgot to invoke the holy ghost in graf 1.