Let the merciless mocking of Bobby Jindal commence!
Hey remember a few weeks ago when Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal trotted awkwardly out onto the national stage and humiliated himself by giving the Republican response to Obama's non-State of the Union speech? Remember how during his speech Jindal, a man who governs a state that's been ass-raped by natural disasters and the federal government's profane lack of preparation in handling them, mocked the stupidity of allocating a few milllion bucks in the Obama budget for volcano research in Alaska? "Wasteful spending" I think is what he called it. And now today, ironically poetic, a volcano has erupted in Alaska...
Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted with four large explosions last night that shot a huge plume of gas and smoke 15 kilometres into the air and sent ash drifting toward the state's largest city Anchorage.
"It is in full eruption," said Matthew Haney, a research geophysicist with the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
Mount Redoubt, which is some 170 kilometres from Anchorage, rises 3,108 metres above the Kenai Peninsula. About 50,000 people live on the peninsula within 80 kilometres of the mountain and it is one of the most densely populated areas of the state.
Sarah Palin is so gonna rip Jindal a new asshole in the 2012 Republican debates!
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May I suggest his new nickname:
Bobby "Pompeii" Jindal.
RJ
@rj..."pompeii" actually fits his last name better than "bobby." sounds good to me.
Pompeii Jindall sounds like a left-handed closer from McNeese State.
"Bring the heat Pompeii!"
RJ
Jindal's speech was as catastrophic to his career as any hurricane or volcano. Not only did he make that stupid remark about volcano monitors, but he falsely placed himself into that Harry Lee story. I don't mind it so much when people lie; I do mind it when they tell easily disprovable lies.
He's not been a terribly effective governor, either. Most of the things he listed in that speech were Blanco initiatives that he followed up on. Also, he prides himself on health care financing, yet his DHH sec'y is a complete nincompoop who has no credibility with the Legislature. And don't get me started on his administration's contempt for science . . .
You know, a lot more people could have escaped Pompeii, if it hadn't been for some Roman bureaucrat who wouldn't let them use unlicensed boats.
Actually, it was just the poor and the slaves who had no chance to escape, while many of the wealthy were able to afford passage before the worst fell on them. Ahhh, good thing that doesn't sound familiar.
But let none of us forget, 140 million for scientific study of natural disasters is comically wasteful, 165 million for bonuses to a handful of AIG pinheads is essential to our economy (and just a drop in the bucket according to Rick Santelli).
The thing I'm reminded of most with that Jindal gaffe, though, is the episode of the Simpsons where the meteor almost hits Springfield, and afterward everyone piles out of the bomb shelter and Moe says "Now let's burn down the observatory so this never happens again!"
It was known months ago that this eruption was coming. We already spend billions on research like this. It's not a big gaffe, it's a question of effective allocation of capital. Governments never have and never will be effective at allocating resources. He should have made fun of retarded people that really would have been great. I love jokes about retarded people. Hey who doesn't love to make fun of retards...they're the only people who could morally sit on the government dole, but they don't because they have families and charitable organizations. But, families and charitable organizations are not important to society...the government can handle it all.
What scares me about Bobby Jindal is that he actually says meaningful things. He gives speeches with structure and logic. I just can't do that...I mean if I started opening arguing for what I want the American Idiots who elected me would know my true colors. And, I don't mean distant relation to Brad Pitt.
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