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?
3.
Conservatively Liberal
No. He’s a dork. He sounds like he is doing an instructional video for K-Mart.
4.
Conservatively Liberal
Them lines don’t lie. Here comes the pledge…
Principals? What principals do they have left? What a joke.
5.
demkat620
He went for the whiskey.
He chose poorly.
6.
gopher2b
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.
7.
Conservatively Liberal
Oooh, Tweety is on a tear. Ouch!
8.
Throwin Stones
Katrina was a Repubican model?
9.
Polish the Guillotines
He sounds like he is doing an instructional video for K-Mart.
Game, set, match.
10.
TheFountainHead
He reminded me of Woody from Toy Story. Don’t know why.
11.
TheHatOnMyCat
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.
12.
Third Eye Open
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?
13.
Brian J
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.
14.
JGabriel
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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15.
Just Some Fuckhead
Jindal totally sucked. He has a bright future as a cartoon character.
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)
20.
Pseudofool
Jindal would probably make a good kindergarten teacher on the other hand.
21.
Seanly
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.
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.
23.
fledermaus
i’m still trying to figure out how a sheriff is not part
of government
24.
Litlebritdifrnt
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"
25.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
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.
Geesh, that bobblehead inflection made for a painful listening experience.
27.
Just Some Fuckhead
Jesus, is Barbara Boxer really wearing giant clown buttons?
28.
Brian J
Katrina was a Repubican model?
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.
29.
kay
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.
30.
TR
Jesus, is it me or does he sound just like Holly Hunter?
Kenneth the Page from "30 Rock"
31.
valdivia
I am not usually a fan of Foer in TNr but this is great great take on Jindal.
He’s a dork. He sounds like he is doing an instructional video for K-Mart.
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.
33.
trollhattan
Yglesias:
Bobby Jindal apparently believes it’s appropriate to address the citizens of the United States in a tone that suggests we’re all nine years old.
I’ve nothing to add.
34.
TheFountainHead
@fledermaus: Me too. Let me know when you crack that one.
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.
38.
Hana
As someone who remembers wearing a face mask when Mt. St. Helens blew, I’m kinda, you know, in favor of monitoring volcanoes.
Jindal’s volcano line just about had me on the floor.
Yeah, unplug all those earthquake monitors too. Fucking science-y machines…
40.
Brian J
We need $2.2 trillion to fix our infrastructure. The $90 billion is a nice little appetizer but we need a lot more.
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.
Is there anyone in Wingnuttia who thinks Jindal did a good job?
46.
Dulcie
Three words – Kenneth.The.Page
47.
Jon H
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.
48.
TR
Jindal’s volcano line just about had me on the floor.
Yeah, unplug all those earthquake monitors too. Fucking science-y machines…
This is, after all, a man who once performed an exorcism.
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.
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TheHatOnMyCat
And the mantra "Americans can do anything," repeated at least five times, reminded me of nothing so much as a cassette tape given to me by a child therapist I (briefly) visited when I was eight. It was called the "Affirmation Tape," and it repeated banal self-esteem or joy-of-life boosters like "You can do it!" and "You love eating meatballs!" over and over.
From TNR. Loved it so much just had to paste it in here.
52.
Hana
I wonder if he’s opposed to monitoring hurricanes and floods too? Levee strength? Cholesterol levels?
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.
55.
TheHatOnMyCat
So how’d this guy get to be a governor?
Have you been to Louisiana?
Heh.
Great catfish, though. I mean, really good.
56.
Just Some Fuckhead
@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..
57.
PC
Jindal’s volcano line just about had me on the floor.
It’s the new manimal.
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Laura W
@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.
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.
Is there anyone in Wingnuttia who thinks Jindal did a good job?
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
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Comrade Jake
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.
65.
Fulcanelli
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!
Bobby Jindal apparently believes it’s appropriate to address the citizens of the United States in a tone that suggests we’re all nine years old.
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!
67.
Brian J
@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?
68.
Delia
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.
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Laura W
@Comrade Jake: Yeah but she’s wearing a CHARTREUSE GREEN blouse while saying it.
70.
Lee
I have not heard it, but read the exerpts on cnn.
Did he really say that the stimulus contained tax INCREASES?
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…
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Litlebritdifrnt
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.
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Jon H
"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!
@TheHatOnMyCat: the slushee drive-thrus rock (when you’re underage)
/longago
78.
Farley
I cannot exorcise his voice out of my head. Someone help me.
79.
Dungheap
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:
The conference agreement provides $140,000,000 for Surveys, Investigations and Research instead of$135,000,000 proposed by the Senate and $200,000,000 proposed by the House. The Survey should consider a wide variety of activities, including repair, construction and restoration of facilities; equipment replacement and upgrades including stream gauges, seismic and volcano monitoring systems; national map activities; and other critical deferred-maintenance and improvement projects which can maximize jobs and provide lasting
improvement to our Nation’s science capacity.
Jackass.
80.
Farley
@Dungheap: Silly. There are no volcanoes in red states. His anti-volcano propaganda will resonate with the base.
81.
RandyH
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!
82.
Jon H
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.
83.
Leelee for Obama
Foer FTW!
I hated myself for laughing at a torture reference, but there it is!
84.
RareSanity
Commenter at LGF:
I don’t give a damn about your ethnicity or your parents, Bobby. Tell me what you are going to do about fighting Obama’s socialist policies.
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:
he’s no more presidential than Palin.
nice guy, but NEXT!
Who knew that we would move so quickly from 8 years of utter disaster to untold years of pure comedy?
85.
Conservatively Liberal
From Erick the Redneck over at RedNeckState:
President Barack Obama a/k/a Captain Cow Patty goes to Congress to spread more manure.
I don’t give a damn about your ethnicity or your parents, Bobby. Tell me what you are going to do about fighting Obama’s socialist policies.
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.
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.
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.
98.
Farley
@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.
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trollhattan
Don’t tell bobby about the Yellowstone Caldera–one bad muthafuggah:
@RareSanity: Ya know who was really good at anecdotes but suckie with facts and policy? Ronald Fucking Reagan.
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Fulcanelli
Hey as bad as it was, it could have been Sarah Palin delivering a 15 minute, Starburst(tm) festooned plethora of politically incoherent lies, damn lies and statistics. Count your blessings!
102.
dog's eye view
Yeah, it’s been quite a week for those of Indian heritage.
Slumdog soars.
Jindal tanks.
103.
Jon H
Jindal didn’t stick the dismount.
104.
Comrade Jake
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.
105.
Comrade Jake
Nate Silver’s take:
If it sounds like Jindal is targeting his speech to a room full of fourth graders, that’s because he is. They might be the next people to actually vote for Republicans again.
Crushed.
106.
Laura W
@JenJen: I think Rachel and Ana Marie Cox are about to be mean girls in a few minutes.
Whoops. Jake beat me.
107.
MazeDancer
Clearly Bobby Jindal’s 2012 opponents knew this was a fine opportunity to have America be exposed to Bobby’s speaking style.
108.
Just Some Fuckhead
If Republicans want to deregulate volcanoes now is a supervolcano far behind?
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Comrade Spock
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.
@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.
115.
Mazacote Yorquest
Republicans and Democrats may not have liked the speech, but the designers of the Microsoft Zune thought it matched Obama’s speech quite well.
Well shit, don’t whip your dick out here, take it somewhere else!
cain
117.
passerby
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.
118.
AnotherBruce
So Rush thinks that Jindal is the next Ronald Reagan? I have to agree, his political career is as thoroughly dead as Ronnie.
That is so damn funny, even at half MDR of caffeine.
122.
CalD
Let’s try him out on "nuclear."
123.
les
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.
124.
SDI
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.
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Trollhattan
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.
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Bret
Jesus, is it me or does he sound just like Holly Hunter?
flounder
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
No. He’s a dork. He sounds like he is doing an instructional video for K-Mart.
Conservatively Liberal
Them lines don’t lie. Here comes the pledge…
Principals? What principals do they have left? What a joke.
demkat620
He went for the whiskey.
He chose poorly.
gopher2b
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
Oooh, Tweety is on a tear. Ouch!
Throwin Stones
Katrina was a Repubican model?
Polish the Guillotines
Game, set, match.
TheFountainHead
He reminded me of Woody from Toy Story. Don’t know why.
TheHatOnMyCat
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
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
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
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
Jindal totally sucked. He has a bright future as a cartoon character.
Porco Rosso
Governor McLovin?
Litlebritdifrnt
@flounder:
Yes. Lets see how that plays out in 2012. Because of course come 2012 THAT WILL NOT MATTER!
dmsilev
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
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
Jindal would probably make a good kindergarten teacher on the other hand.
Seanly
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
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
i’m still trying to figure out how a sheriff is not part
of government
Litlebritdifrnt
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
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
Geesh, that bobblehead inflection made for a painful listening experience.
Just Some Fuckhead
Jesus, is Barbara Boxer really wearing giant clown buttons?
Brian J
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
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
Kenneth the Page from "30 Rock"
valdivia
I am not usually a fan of Foer in TNr but this is great great take on Jindal.
Delia
@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
Yglesias:
I’ve nothing to add.
TheFountainHead
@fledermaus: Me too. Let me know when you crack that one.
Smerp
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
From Rick Sanchez’s twitter
Jindal is going to get pwned all day tomorrow
Ned R.
@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
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
Jindal’s volcano line just about had me on the floor.
Yeah, unplug all those earthquake monitors too. Fucking science-y machines…
Brian J
WereBear
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
So how’d this guy get to be a governor?
sgwhiteinfla
Sanchez again
Time for some new talking points Rethugs!
JR
I was so distracted by Bobby the Page’s inflection, I didn’t even notice what he said.
Dave
Is there anyone in Wingnuttia who thinks Jindal did a good job?
Dulcie
Three words – Kenneth.The.Page
Jon H
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
This is, after all, a man who once performed an exorcism.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse: Spending eruptions.
kommrade reproductive vigor
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
From TNR. Loved it so much just had to paste it in here.
Hana
I wonder if he’s opposed to monitoring hurricanes and floods too? Levee strength? Cholesterol levels?
Smerp
@Fern:
The same way that Sarah Palin did, of course.
TR
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
Have you been to Louisiana?
Heh.
Great catfish, though. I mean, really good.
Just Some Fuckhead
@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
It’s the new manimal.
Laura W
@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
Sanchez again
Amen brother!
Third Eye Open
Even the ardent whiners at LGF think Jindal was horrible. This is going to be fun
Comrade Jake
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I laughed. Hard.
Farley
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.
@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
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
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
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
@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
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
@Comrade Jake: Yeah but she’s wearing a CHARTREUSE GREEN blouse while saying it.
Lee
I have not heard it, but read the exerpts on cnn.
Did he really say that the stimulus contained tax INCREASES?
Andrew
Cutting volcano monitoring funding is how Jindal is going to get rid of Palin.
Just Some Fuckhead
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
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
"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
I thought it was a great speech. I want him to speak after Obama at every SOTU.
Dave
Jai ho, Bobby Jindal!
Throwin Stones
@TheHatOnMyCat: the slushee drive-thrus rock (when you’re underage)
/longago
Farley
I cannot exorcise his voice out of my head. Someone help me.
Dungheap
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
@Dungheap: Silly. There are no volcanoes in red states. His anti-volcano propaganda will resonate with the base.
RandyH
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
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
Foer FTW!
I hated myself for laughing at a torture reference, but there it is!
RareSanity
Commenter at LGF:
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
From Erick the Redneck over at RedNeckState:
What an
class act.dslak
Can we do without mocking his ethnicity?
Zzyzx
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
Would the last one leaving the GOP please turn out the lights? The country’s on this green, energy saving kick these days…
maya
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
Apparently Brooks unloaded on Jindaleeny on PBS. I look forward to that video.
JGabriel
Ninerdave:
Seconded!
.
dslak
@maya: Okay, now that was funny.
RareSanity
Crap, all my formatting got screwed up.
take two:
Comrade Stuck
@Farley:
Click your heels three times and holler wingnut be gone.
gnomedad
We need more volcano entrepreneurs.
JenJen
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
@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
@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
Don’t tell bobby about the Yellowstone Caldera–one bad muthafuggah:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
Just Some Fuckhead
@RareSanity: Ya know who was really good at anecdotes but suckie with facts and policy? Ronald Fucking Reagan.
Fulcanelli
Hey as bad as it was, it could have been Sarah Palin delivering a 15 minute, Starburst(tm) festooned plethora of politically incoherent lies, damn lies and statistics. Count your blessings!
dog's eye view
Yeah, it’s been quite a week for those of Indian heritage.
Slumdog soars.
Jindal tanks.
Jon H
Jindal didn’t stick the dismount.
Comrade Jake
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
Nate Silver’s take:
Crushed.
Laura W
@JenJen: I think Rachel and Ana Marie Cox are about to be mean girls in a few minutes.
Whoops. Jake beat me.
MazeDancer
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
If Republicans want to deregulate volcanoes now is a supervolcano far behind?
Comrade Spock
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
@Just Some Fuckhead: The ultimate motherfucking WMD.
Mr. Tactful
The above potato peeler reference is the funniest reference to any sort of vegetable peeler, ever.
Ned R.
Some deep entertainment here I just noticed — Gerson clearly wrote this before Jindal said anything:
The Jindal Phenomenon
flounder
I think he just winked at me!
Jon H
@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
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
@flounder:
Well shit, don’t whip your dick out here, take it somewhere else!
cain
passerby
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
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
@JenJen:
JenJen – I think that was Chris Matthews who sighed the "oh gawd".
slightly_peeved
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
@slightly_peeved:
That is so damn funny, even at half MDR of caffeine.
CalD
Let’s try him out on "nuclear."
les
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
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
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.