Bobby Jindal News

Bobby Jindal Berms A $200 Million Waste

5:42 pm EST December 16th, 2010 | Republicans | 9 Comments

Jindal didn’t a lot of crowing to the cameras about this during the BP spill, but you should know he’s a Republican governor so the odds of him being full of crap are mighty high.

The big set of sand barriers erected by Louisiana’s governor to protect the coastline at the height of the Gulf oil spill was criticized by a presidential commission Thursday as a colossal, $200 million waste of BP’s money so far.

Precious little oil ever washed up on the berms, according to the commission — a finding corroborated by a log of oil sightings and other government documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request.

Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered the berms built over the objections of scientists and federal agencies — and secured money from BP to do it — out of frustration over what he saw as inaction by the Obama administration. During the crisis, Jindal boasted that the sand walls were stopping oil from coming ashore, and the idea proved popular in Louisiana.

In its stinging report, however, the commission, appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the spill, called the project “underwhelmingly effective, overwhelmingly expensive.” Still, the panel did concede that the sand might ultimately prove helpful in Louisiana’s long-term effort to restore its badly eroded coastline.

Bobby Jindal Vetoes Bill To Reveal BP Documents

11:07 am EST June 27th, 2010 | Environment | 6 Comments

Looks like somebody’s hiding something.

Gov. Bobby Jindal rejected a bill Friday that would have required him to make public and to preserve all his office’s documents involving the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

In his veto letter, the governor said the legislation would have hurt the state’s position in future litigation against BP PLC, the oil giant that leased the rig which exploded April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and causing the disaster.

Topic: Bobby Jindal, BP, Gulf Oil Spill, Louisiana

Bobby Jindal Hasn’t Activated National Guard Troops On The Spill

6:36 pm EST June 26th, 2010 | Conservative, Republicans | 5 Comments

Another Southern Republican with a big mouth who is unable/unwilling to pull the trigger on action when necessary. Shocker. Maybe Jindal put the Guard on volcano monitoring duty.

Topic: Bobby Jindal, Gulf Oil Spill, Louisiana, National Guard

Jindal Too Busy Slamming Obama To Do His Job

2:08 pm EST May 30th, 2010 | Environment | 4 Comments

Mr. Volcano monitoring…

Three Democratic state senators blasted Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal on Saturday for not quickly distributing $40 million in grants from BP at the same time he’s been criticizing the company and the Obama administration for taking too long to provide needed resources to combat the Gulf oil spill.

Jindal has ‘been out there talking to the people impacted by the disaster and the media and got his life jacket on and is out in the water, but I want him to use his executive power to get resources out there instead of standing on the bully pulpit and pointing fingers,’ said state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans.

Topic: Bobby Jindal

Bobby Jindal Rediscovers Federal Government With Oil Spill, Asks For Help

10:50 pm EST April 29th, 2010 | Environment | 20 Comments

Wasn’t this the same guy who a few months ago was decrying federal money spent on volcano monitoring? The same guy lambasting big government, and one of the GOP poster boys for “limited government”.

Yeah. That guy.

Gov. Bobby Jindal asked federal authorities tonight to grant funding for Louisiana National Guard members joining the multi-agency response to the offshore oil spill.

In letters sent late today to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Jindal requested support for up to 6,000 soldiers and airmen for at least 90 days under Title 32 of the U.S. Code, which would allow the Guardsmen to receive military retirement points, health insurance and disability protection.

A the end of the day, Jindal will get the help he needs because the current President isn’t a moron and our federal government is no longer packed to the gills by luddite ideologues paid for by big business.

But the response to Jindal should just be a rousing chorus of “drill, baby, drill”.

Topic: Bobby Jindal, Louisiana

Bobby Jindal Does Stimulus Two-Step

9:04 pm EST July 21st, 2009 | Republicans | 17 Comments

Hey Kenneth, you aren’t allowed to take credit for dispensing stimulus money when you opposed the stimulus.

Also, VOLCANOES.

Topic: Bobby Jindal, Economy

Rush Runs The Right: Jindal Edition

12:15 pm EST March 25th, 2009 | Republicans | 36 Comments

Bobby Jindal joins his fellow Republicans in defense of Leader Limbaugh’s edict that they want the President to fail in his leadership of the country. I’m glad he cleared that up.

Dem response:

“We understand that Governor Jindal has had some problems with public speaking lately, but turning to Rush Limbaugh to be your new speechwriter doesn’t help. What we know has failed is the reflexive partisan politics of the past that Rush Limbaugh and his Republican party continue to be mired in. Rather than rooting for failure, we urge the Republican party to play a constructive role in moving the country forward and offer a budget proposal,” said DNC National Press Secretary Hari Sevugan.

Topic: Bobby Jindal, Rush Limbaugh

Bobby Jindal Would Still Like To Know Why We’re Monitoring Volcanoes

8:09 am EST March 23rd, 2009 | News | 10 Comments

Seriously. WHY?

Mount Redoubt, a volcano in southern Alaska, began erupting late Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The eruption, starting about 11:38 p.m. Sunday local time (2:38 a.m. Monday EDT), was obscured by darkness and snow. But the initial height of the eruption cloud was estimated at less than 20,000 feet above sea level, the USGS said.

Earmarks!
I Can’t Hear You!
Wasteful Government Spending!!!
Earmarks!!!!!!!

Topic: Bobby Jindal

Seriously, You Don’t Scare Us Anymore

7:47 am EST March 2nd, 2009 | News | 99 Comments

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Redstate joins the chorus on the right assuming that liberal attacks on Bobby Jindal are due to us being scared of him.

calvin and hobbes Bobby Jindal doesn’t scare anyone. Nor for that matter do Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter or the rest of the mental midgets that form the core of the conservative/Republican axis.

It’s not as if we’ve never been scared of the right. For 8 years we feared what George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would do to America, and sadly the damage done was even worse than most of us (including myself) feared.

But now? I have no doubt that the right will one day again be on top, there will likely be more than a few Republican presidents within my lifetime. But right now you’ve got idiots like Sarah Palin and cartoons like Bobby Jindal being touted as serious national candidates. I’m too young to remember it firsthand, but I’ve got to feel that liberals today feel like LBJ did in 1964 or Ronald Reagan felt in 1984: You can’t be serious.

So we mock, not the way we mocked Bush out of fear of what he would and did do, but out of that most natural of reasons: Conservatives and republicans, right now in 2009 are the most mockable of public figures. We’ve just been through the first election in what could turn out to be a fundamental shift in voting attitudes in America. Conservatives, outside of the mainstream media who pretends as if they’re still at the 60%+ strength of 2003-4, are on the outs looking in, tilting at a president with a 60-70% approval rating. And in light of that scenario, they have appointed a gaggle of circus clowns as their standard-bearers.

There’s nothing sinister, we don’t think based on your activities that you’re going to get competent overnight, by all indications the right thinks that the same old tax cut b.s. pushed by the same old characters and some buffoonish new ones is going to roll back the recent tide.

How could you not laugh?

Topic: Bobby Jindal