Gov. Bobby Jindal’s volcano remark has some fuming – CNN.com
Maybe the republicans should use American Idol to find “Rising Stars.” Their latest attempts don’t appear to be working so well (Palin, Joe the Plumber and now this clown)
[From Gov. Bobby Jindal's volcano remark has some fuming - CNN.com]
Jindal, Isn’t he the new republican poster wonder boy to show they are a tolerant party of other people other thatn fat old balding white men with money…
Jindal has proven he is a joke –at least for now. Personally, I am rooting for the 2012 ticket or Palin/Jindal. Saturday Night Live would have material for decades!
What makes me LOL is how often Republicans try to sing their old song & dance! Jindal droned on and on about how “bad” government is, how it’s only the GOP who thinks of the American taxpayer…blah, blah, blah. Does he fail to grasp is that the GOP is also part of this government he puts down? They want our votes…to put them in charge of the government they claim is so “bad” in the first place! Crazy stuff…
We know that there are no volcanoes in Louisiana. I wander however how Gov. Bobby Jindal feels about weather monitoring thousands miles away from his home, especially in mid Atlantic. Answer, please!
Jindal is the new house “Negro” they used to say about Blacks who carried the tune of their masters.
He follows others like Clarence Thomas, etc. They like to be with the “masters” because it makes them feel powerful.
Jindal’s people were oppressed by the British empire 300 years ago and were denied typhoon warning such as were enjoyed by the white masters. Now he sees entitlements in the form of Volcano warnings for whites and feels the old familiar pain. When are we going to have a substantive dialogue on race. We are such cowards
Simon, you are so right about hurricane warning systems in the Atlantic. But since so many people IGNORED them until the water was lapping into their street, they were not as useful as they might have been.
Ginny, you only named Clarence Thomas as a House Negroes. Don’t forget Colin Powell, his son, Condi Rice, and the others that betrayed their race by serving their white masters. Not a Nat Turner among them. What label woud you put on Roland Burris? Lackey of the White Devil?
Of cours its important to take care of volcanoes. But will this help stimulating the economy? Is this why we need to spend billions of dollars?
Maybe we should cut out funding for the hurricane monitoring, also.
I want Jindal for president in 2012 along wit Palin. I miss Saturday night Live
I love how all the lefties characterise Jindal in terms they crucify a Republican for if he/she dared to characterise a Democrat minority in the same way. Jindal is no one’s “house negro” you racist prick. I voted for Obama & I am a former Republican, I hated the Bush Admin. but I also know the Democrats can waste money like a crack addict.
It is important that there is oversight for this stimulus package and it’s object should not be to bloat the size of an already bloated Gov’t. I support this stimulus package, over-all, because of the situation we are in; but I believe the Democrats have done nothing to avoid this economic downturn. When they were warned in 2003 about the problems at Fannie May and Freddie Mac they attacked those who brought them to light as being racist. That moron Barney Frank for one. Yes Bush and his toadies shoulder much of the blame as well. However what the Bush administration lacked in its first 4 years was an effective opposition to keep it honest. Personally I am glad Jindal is out there criticising Obama (who I support) hopefully it will keep the Democrats honest.
$140 million to monitor volcanoes is too much money.
OK, here’s an idea: Let’s cut the funding for the National Weather Service for hurricane monitoring… Jindal should be in favor of that.
Who decided to live next to a volcano anyway. Oh, honey, look.. a volcano!.. Lets build our house right here…
who decided to live along the atlantic and gulf coast… oh look, hurricanes, beach erosion… let’s make the natural processes of the world stop and conform to us.
The article loses even more credibility when the mention a comment from Danny Boston at “Georgia Tech University”. There is no such place. The name of the school is Georgia Institute of Technology, sometimes shortened to “Georgia Tech”. Nice work CNN….GT is your neighbor in Atlanta.
The Republican Party, for the most part, is a JOKE! If Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin are the future….well enough said. Sad.
Governor Jindal is just more evidence of the same old tired Republican ideals that the country rejected in the election. THEIR MAKING THE DEMS LOOK GREAT!!! What is the NEW Republican plan for healthcare, education, energy-independence, terrorism, ect. Gov. Jindal showed that he is just as ignorant as his Republican predecessors by mocking volcanic warning/prediction programs. How would you feel if some elected offical said that we should cut funding to the National Weather Service due to the fact that we have not had a killer Hurricane since Katrina. GET WITH THE TIMES CONSERVATIVES!!!
This “all government is bad” shtick coming from the Republicans is not working. Most realize that that the “invisible hand” of capitalism didn’t work with the subprime crisis- people got greedy, repackaged bad loans and the whole house of cards came tumbling down as it has every time unfettered capitalism is allowed to run its course. Government’s contribution to this mess was not its actions, but rather its failure to act– in terms of effective regulation of the mortgage and banking industry.
Jindal misses the point by trying to demonize a proactive government now. Government can hire people when the private sector isn’t hiring and it can simultaneously serve the public good in areas where the private sector will not operate- i.e. volcano and hurricane forecasting, because there is no profit motive for the private sector in those areas.
We can’t afford to sit on our hands and hope the private sector and the markets works this all out in 10 years-that didn’t work in the Great Depression and it won’t work now. Jindal=Hoover.
Hey, Tadd. Read “The Forgotten Man” to get a better perspective on The Great Depression. All the government tinkering kept away private investors and all historians agree the only thing that really pulled us out of it was the War and the jobs it created–it had nothing to do with government programs. The private sector has already shown its cards about investing … they’re not gonna do it when they can get run out of business by government subsidized businesses and programs.
As far as Jindal’s comments go, it’s simply an example of how this “stimulus” package is doing very little to stimulate anything. It’s exactly the kind of accountability we need in Obama’s new “transparent” government.
Why does the Republican party feel like they have anything beneficial to say about the state of our country when they are the ones that put us in this mess to begin with. I feel bad for all the nieve citizens of this country who fall for political bull shit. Tom Delay said last night on hardball that President Bush had a successfull run as president (does that mean for him in terms of money made). The rest of the country is not benefitting as well as these dirty politicans with their hands in the pot.
Wow, some really insightful comments around here.
I think the first tenant of liberalism is that any racial/bigoted remark is not to be considered racism if the intended target is a Republican. The second rule is that all ideas are welcome as long as they match up lock-step with basic liberal ideology. For if not, those who perpetuate such blasphemy must be ostracized, mocked and silenced for their dissention.
I don’t see how volcano monitoring falls under the blanket of economic stimulus, but maybe that’s just me. How many Average Joe, small-business owning volcanologists do you guys know?
Is Gov.Jindal willing to give up NOAA funding for monitoring hurricanes?