Bobby Jindal's Zombie like performance uses phony Republican talking point of 'magnetic levitation' trains
By John Amato Tuesday Feb 24, 2009 9:31pm
Bobby Jindal walked out to the microphone with a glaze in his eyes and seemed hopped up on Red Bull as he shuffled through the Republican response speech to President Obama. If the Republican Party thinks he's their solution they are sadly mistaken.
Instead of launching his national political career, he just about ended it. Some people thought he reminded them of Kenneth from 30 Rock, but at least Kenneth has some enthusiasm. Not only was he zombie-like throughout, but he didn't even have his facts straight. Too much Red Bull?
But Democratic leaders in Congress rejected this approach. Instead of trusting us to make wise decisions with our own money, they passed the largest government spending bill in history -- with a price tag of more than $1 trillion with interest. While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending.
It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a 'magnetic levitation' line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called 'volcano monitoring.' Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, DC
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As Newsweek documented, the levitating train is a complete myth.
A widely repeated claim that $8 billion is set aside for a "levitating train" to Disneyland is untrue. That total is for unspecified high-speed rail projects, and some of it may or may not end up going to a proposed 300-mph "maglev" train connecting Anaheim, Calif., with Las Vegas.
The truth never seems to be a problem for the Republican Party. Jindal also boasted that government is ineffective by sneering at the government response to Hurricane Katrina. Yes, under Republicans and George Bush, Hurricane Katrina was a disaster -- one led by his own party. Way to go there, Bobby. I don't think Americans have forgotten that fact, and it was an idiotic analogy to use. Pretty much like most of his childlike stories.
Dave N: Don't you think he and Sarah Palin seem fated for each other? ... Birds of a feather and all that.
UPDATE: Digby has her take:
I'm listening to Jindahl and finding it hard to believe that this guy is the great Republican hope.
I'm also getting angry. He, like all conservative a*&holes, is a hypocritical, lying jackass. It's really, really hard not to just say that the people who voted for this creep don't want any help and so they shouldn't get any. Unfortunately, there a whole bunch who didn't and a lot of children who don't deserve to pay the price for their parents' folly.
But my God, I'm gobsmacked by the fact that he actually raised Katrina in the way he did, suggesting that they didn't need government help. I just don't know what to say about that.
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He reminded me of Kenneth from 30 Rock, but without a soul.
As Ana Marie Cox said on Rachel Maddow's show: "Gah."
Ana Marie is my future ex-wife...and I saw her first, and all that stuff, lol!
So...yeah...hands off! ;)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
wow I agree with you 100%. I seriously can't wait til all the shows go at it with this one...
Starting with Saturday Night Live. They could use another ratings boost.
I hadn't even thought of that! Seth would be perfect!
a forceful, dynamic, engaging Obama... and an out of touch clown. Both men were appropriate choices to represent their respective parties.... The contrast between Obama's outstanding performance and nutjob's sophomoric "americans can do anything" crap was glaring.
I am 53 years old, and never, ever have I heard a more poorly delivered rebuttal.
Ever.
If this is the future of the republic leadership, we are safer tonight. It, at best, consisted of half-truths, and at worst a mish-mash of debunked hogwash like trains to Disneyland.
What a buffoon.
What a leader.
What a moron GOP "leader" swimming in a sea of like-minded idiots.
I agree, but they're kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point. Governator Arnie has already endorsed Obama's plan, Palin refuses to give any more speeches unless they buy her clothes, and Joe the Plumber charges too much these days, so they were stuck with Gomer Pyle on Valium.
a Palin/Jindal love-child? Ew, double-ew.
I think the mag-lev from the Bay Area to LA would be a winner - not a lot of point to putting one between Disneyland and Vegas. But luckily, the facts point to another direction that Bobby purports.
I think the poor schmuck realized right before his speech that Obama had already addressed all his talking points, and he still had to go out there and go through the motions. Whose idea do you suppose it was for him to take this fall?
His. But he's obviously delusional. I doubt he went off-track after Obama's masterwork... this was written by handlers and Jindal over the last few days. They had a chance to change their party, and failed.
While we're on the subject. Suppose there actually WAS a high speed train for California <-> Las Vegas.
Wouldn't that help the economy? Why is this pork?
Trains put out less global warming pollution when full than cars and airplanes. If people are going to Vegas to gamble, wouldn't it be better for them to take the train?
In other words, it's not a bridge to nowhere, but a train to a real valid destination...
... we're not going to accomplish much if you keep injecting logic into the conversation.
(wink)
I'd like you all to know that the "bridge to nowhere" (to Gravina Island) was a needed bridge for the city and borough of Ketchikan. The "bridge to nowhere" will be built because there is very mountainous terrain surrounding Ketchikan. Gravina is a relatively flat island just across Tongass Narrows. Ketchikan was originally built mostly on pilings because of the steep hills and it's location was dependent on the salmon canneries and pulp mill (closed now). It appears that Gravina Island is being commercially logged in advance of development and until the bridge is built the ferry will suffice.
The Mag-Lev trains are all reasonable constructions and most civilized countries have them.
Hopefully, after all the publicity Alaska has gotten, we will be able to reduce some of the welfare that we send that red state. Alaska has been receiving close to 2.00 for every dollar they send in. I don't care if they ever build 1 more bridge in that state again. They are all "pick yourself up by the bootstrap people" right? They should send their federal welfare money back to us and pay for their own fucking bridges.
That's pretty harsh don't ya think?
Michael Steele and Lieberman made him do it. That's all they've got. Jindal portrayed the same zombie-like stance that McCain had during the campaign. This is what happens when they aren't allowed to be themselves...thank goodness!
If this is the best the Republicans can do, they're in serious trouble. Jindal's reply is shockingly bad. The teleprompter his eyes are glued to exudes more natural charisma.
Did she wink at America like Palin did?
Just keep repeating the lie over and over again. Their audience will believe he's Muslim, that there is a pork project for Ried to run a 8 million dollar kool-aide train from Disneyland to the brothels in Vegas.
Holy shit....this nation is stuffed with dumb, gullible idiots. I know my older brothers and sisters are going to eat this crap up and repeat it to all their geriatric friends. It will be "gospel" to them...and that's what God wrote, ya know?!
LOL!!! We knew that, but it's still amazing to see just how many idiots in high places there are. Obama is really, really good, but these idiots make him look like a god.
I thought Jindal was talking about George W. Bush's Iraq War. If the best the GOP can do is criticize Democrats for "big government spending," they're going to have a problem. First, big government spending to help the economy is precisely what voters want right now. Second, Bush and his Republican Congress spent like drunken sailors for 6 years, so their sudden opposition to spending which now happens to be controlled by the Democrats has zero credibility. It's obvious by now that both parties spend a lot despite the current Republican rhetoric, the only issue is, what do you spend money on? Republican spending on no-bid contracts for Halliburton, or Democratic spending to stimulate the economy and create jobs.
WELL said.
Ho ho ho! Silly Democrats and their volcano monitoring! They'll be wanting to monitor hurricanes next.
Republicans, unprepared for natural disasters since 2005.
I'm guessing there's no active Volcanoes in Louisiana. Perhaps this is his way of getting back at Hawaii and California.
He was right about volcanoes! There are no volcanoes in the United States. And certainly no one ever died from one here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of...
...the other volcanoes that run down into northern California, the two active volcanoes in Hawaii, and the huge one over which sits Yellowstone National Park.
I'd like to see exactly where that volcano money is targeted, too, because I've got a sneaking suspicion that some of it may be meant to study ways to harness energy.
there are inactive and active volcanoes in Alaska, Washington, and Oregon. People have died in the USA from their actions.
Look up "sarcasm" in the dictionary. Memorize it.
I thought that was particularly stupid as well. Why do the republicans hate science? They rant on about studies on endangered species as well.
Republicans hate science because it undermines their cherished beliefs that all must suffer as long as they get theirs.
Remember their platform:
1. Cut taxes
2. Fuck you
Exactly and well said!!!
the biggest caldera in the world is under Yosemite National Park.
Based on geological studies...oh...you have to believe in science...and accept that the world is older than the bible says it is....the caldera is basically overdue to erupt.
If you dig into the reports...anyone that actually uses their brain...instead of talking out of their ass would know that that is what the study is for.
George "Your doin a great job, Brownie" Bush...couldn't even read a fucking weather report!!
I thought it was too early to start his campaign for president in 012. Nothing he said seemed relevent.
As it were.
Hi I'm Bobby Jingle and I'm running for class president.
the fourth grade class president.
Perfect! It reflects the sound of the Mardi Gras coins bouncing around in his head!
What schmuck. Of course he aptly reflects the republicant party of 2009.
I predict a Palin/Jindal (ops, Jingles) Gooper ticket in 2012.
MZ
I hope they go for it. Obama will definitely win, hands down.
Jindal gave a campaign speech as if he was running for President not a rebuttal. He forgot about the 6 per cent unemployment rate in Louisiana and all those who are suffering. He used Obama's talking points to get to be Govenor now he might not get re elected as Govenor. The good news is Louisiana Lt. Govenor will make sure the bill passing for the citizens of Louisiana to get the Stimulus Package even if Jindal objects. Little Newt aka Eric Cantor often looks in the mirror and calls himself Mr. President, he might have the chance now the Jindal made a fool of himself.
The correct answer is (drumroll, please)...
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Tim Pawlenty. The guy who hasn't been making as big an ass of himself on camera.
I thought Gregory pulled Jindal up on that lie Sunday morning, am I suffering from a false memory?
That was Congressman Darrell Issa
Highspeed trains connecting our major urban centers actually sounds like a great idea to me anyways. They are much more efficient than crowded commercial airlines. No, they're not as fast, but far more efficient. Also, money to improve the commuter trains sounds like a great idea to me too. I currently don't commute, but if I end up doing it, I don't want to sit in traffic when I could be riding a train, oblivious to the bumpers, working or browsing the internet.
Any ways, enough ranting about what I feel is necessary for America to gain energy independence from Middle East war zones. What is with that bar at the bottom. Friggin' push pole BS. I swear it's actually a form of mental subversion.
With conservatives, trains would undermine the existing travel industry. It's always the wrong time to make a change; when an industry is healthy, AND when it's ailing. Someone rich might have their income threatened.
The GOP resist change, because culutral change characteristically terrifies conservatives. Their whole platform is a complex, neurotic excuse to change nothing. They would have had us living in caves because this is not the time to try something as untested as houses. Conservatives resisted the sun-centered universe, women in the workplace, racial equality, the 8 hour work day, interracial marriage, efficient power sources. Most of these developments were threatening to God also, they insisted. The GOP needs you to stay back there in the dark with them. They are not the way forward.
But Jindal may be your man if you need an exorcism, or if you need to sell out your culture to fit in:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-storie...
'cause they are in the hip pocket of the energy companies.
Their shilling for big oil goes back to when all the major cities in the country had trolley lines...which were removed at the behest of their benefactors in the energy industries and replaced with...buses.
Feigned outrage and old, tired "tax and spend" rhetoric is futile against inspiration and ideas.
They are utterly out-manned and out-thought. Like the British, marching in their bright red uniforms into modern-day Kabul.
bobby jindal doesn't care about people of color...wait, what?
that the same idiots (yes, the millions of them) who ate up Sarah Palin's BS with a spoon probably feel the same way about Bobby. That is, the ones who can get over the fact that he's brown. That's not a trivial proportion of the population. If he's the GOP's Luke Skywalker, then we have to be prepared to deal with the guy head on no matter how ridiculous he is.
We trusted you for the last eight years. You failed.
Somebody always decides what to do with our money. At least, Obama plans to spend it on us.
In the Republican's case, it was "funnel it to the richest people in America" and "blow it on massive pork projects."
But apparently blowing our tax money wasn't enough, so they decided to steal our private investments as well.
By the way, yes, they failed. But I didn't trust them.
His rambling monologue came accross as if he had smoked a bone before coming to the microphone- Perhaps he's always this scatterbrained, but this is how most people talk after smoking some powerful ganja; incoheranty shifting from one topic to the next, without making any sense..
I HOPE he runs in 2012, cause he will lose..
was like boxing a glacier.
"Bobby" Jindal. He's already a has been.
Republicans like someone they can manipulate and train like a puppet for the next 3 years.
Obama: A+
Jindal: F
Just saw this at McClatchy:
I want to blow this chart up to about 17 floors high and plant it in front of the Press Corps, so next time Bobby Jindal or any of the billion talking heads blather on repeating their stupid "tax and spend" mantra about Democrats, the news anchor can just point to it and say, "WTF?"
LOOK AT THIS CHART!!! FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=...
Thanks for the charts! Those are great.
Did you see Jon Stewart skewer Jindal last night?
Good stuff.
I stayed up watching MSNBC report incredulously on Jindals Epic Fail...
Nice Chart.
The 109th Congress - WORST....CONGRESS....EVER!
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/w...
Cripes, it was like watching a U.N. meet-and-greet. Men, women, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic... y'know kinda like the America I live in. Who'da thought.
It's a rebuttal..but he comes on telling us about how he was raised.. like we care one bit. This was a campaign speech from the gitgo, and his job..the republican's job is to make sure Obama fails, and they'll sacrifice the country with no remorse, to get what they want. THey've done it before.
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.
(By way of Andrew Sullivan's site)
it just occurred to me. That is probably the average education their constituents have.
sorry, but what a dumb fucking tie!
godamnit!!! this is such a sad performance.
Posters at Daily Kos have documentation showing the story about the Sheriff and the boats lacks a basis in reality
And as mentioned, the Disneyland to Vegas train has been debunked for over a week!
Plus even if the story about the sheriff were true, that 'bureaucrat' would have been a Republican bureaucrat ... is Jindal proud of his party's performance over Katrina?????
Doesn't he realize the value of predicting volcanoes ... that they are terribly destructive events ... does he ever watch Discovery channel or History channel .. they have stories about the damage done by volcanoes at least once a week ...oops, my bad, GOP doesn't like science
Well, how about a little bit of geothermal energy? oops, more science
And if memory serves, Jindal was a convert to Catholicism after high school ..that is when he changed his name to Robert or Bobby .....isn't his legal name still Indian ? why would his father call him Bobby before he converted ? were they ashamed of their heritage?
I can't believe anybody with intelligence could listen to this Jindal guy and not be insulted
Governor Palin needs to slap that little loud-mouth upside the head.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485968,00...
FYI
This volcano is only a few miles from Anchorage. This is why Sarah Palin keeps skipping out on the Washington GOP events.
They know that most people aren't aware of volcanos until one blows. Treat them like mushrooms, keep them in the dark and feed them horseshit.
Here's how the GOP sounds in the post-game huddle:
"How come our guy isn't as charming, poised... intelligent as theirs?"
and the thoughtless answers they're pushing:
...tax cuts! ...liberal bias! ...where's our black guy?
they didn't say "our black guy"...
The ONLY consolation for georgie dubya's reign is that it was SO VERY AWFUL that it virtually assured this big political swing to the left. Sadly, the world pays a terrible price.
I live in the New Orleans area and Governor Jindal seems determined to to tear down Lousiana in the name of Republican ideology. The Repugs scariest tactic is supporting the idea that 'government doesn't work', then proceeding to prove their point; KATRINA being a perfect example. Jindal's grandstanding about refusing some of Louisiana's share of STIMULUS monies can only make life even harder for a state that was struggling before dubya and before Katrina.
Let us pray that this buffoon -- Jindal -- does not kill his own candidacy. A JINDAL/PALIN ticket could assure another Democratic president. We Louisianans will have to endure this idiot, finding some solace in the consolation prize: another Democratic victory in 2012.
Spell check can be interesting. For JINDAL, it recommended VANDAL. Uh-huh! Fortunately, most Americans believe GOOD Government CAN/DOES/WILL work. Let's help make it happen.
Mark in Louisiana
Forget for a moment the substance and focus on the delivery and the patronizing tone of the speech, as if they were addressing a class of kindergartners. McCain often did the same thing. Palin did it all the time. It's actually quite insulting.
I felt the very same way. I just wonder how many people out there appreciated being talked to like little kids. Not only was the message idiotic, but the delivery was dreadful. The funnier thing is that some righties want to put him up against Obama in '12. LOL
they are talking to their base. I work with members of that base every day and when they talk about the stimulas package the only thing out of their mouths are the RNC talking points delivered to them from Limbaugh, Beck and our local right wing nut Bob Connors. They don't think for themselves they are like eight year olds parroting what they hear their parents say.
This man with hard working parents from India should be very afraid.
The party of hypocritcal stupid white men is doing a black-face skit in the way that all the people of non-european origination are suddenly embraced if they espouse the bullshit facsist dance for the fat cats who pay them (but only if they're legal, Lou!)
It's pathetic.
Hey, you can come to my country club now! (snicker)
If this twerp is who the Republicans are counting on in 2012 then every thinking person in America should be celebrating. I know conservatives are easily duped and stuck in their own brainless bullshit, but the numbers are all out there for anyone to see. Little Bobby (that lame response of his lacked only the words "boys and girls" at the end of each sing-song sentence) delplores spending a total of $440 million that at least puts auto workers back to work and keeps vulcanologists employed. How much are we spending PER DAY in Iraq? Just about the same, and for what? OK, patriots, let's hear that old song and dance about spreading democracy.
Stupid fucking lying piece of shit dick. Really, is this the best they can do and would anybody actually vote for this pathetic worm coaxed fron the earth with bleach water? Try again Repigs, after you gain hip-hop sensibilities this still isn't your guy! F-ing pathetic comes to mind though!
I thought he was part of the new intellectual wing of the republican party..
If Jindals schemes of oil taxes doesn't pan out for him and if his rejection of funds brings more misery I'd say any hope of a presidency would be squashed for good. I hope there is close monitoring of the charter schools forced into New Orleans after Katrina. While I would love for their children to be well educated, that surely wasn't the goal of abolishing public schools in NO. Naomi Klein covers some of it in The Shock Doctrine. Now that is a scary book. No aliens or monsters required.
We have a Republican here in WI that's being groomed for national stage I believe. His name is Paul Ryan. He is one to be watching out for.
He reminds of Pat Paulson, especially the way his voice sounds. And he looks like him too. And his politics are exactly what paulson was satirizing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4kWLUnorTU&fe...
be in the mess we're in now. I loved him!!
disneyland??? no...los angeles, you fucktwit
and why is modernizing the fleet to fuel efficient cars a waste...especially since it does create jobs
fucktwit
why isnt that man in mumbai working in a call center so i can scream at him
ROFLMAO!
You made my day :-)
nuff said
Hah! Way to take the last, best hope of the Republican party down with one (satyrical) shot.
First, the Mag-Lev train would reduce greenhouse emissions considerably. Is Jindal so uninformed that he does not know how many vehicles and aircraft transit that corridor each day? And yes, almost all of them are emitters. Mag-Lev trains can be powered exclusively by photovoltaic or wind generated power. And no, it wouldn't be from Las Vegas to Disneyland it would be from the Las Vegas metropolitan area to the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Oh yes....something called Volcano Monitoring!!! I guess he won't be happy unless the population of Seattle gets wiped out just like New Orleans. Way to impress us with your magnanimity Bobby J!!!
The mid-west and Florida.....so it's all open ended at this time. Jindal just talked himself out of a future national career in politics.
at least once a month for 6 months last year. Sometimes, I'd fly if I had to go last minute but I always opted for the train. The service I used was a Virgin Pendelino "tilting" train that got me from London to Glasgow in 4 hours. That is damned fast and thanks to track improvements, the train gets there in a little over 3 hours.
I'd pay a little extra for a 1st class ticket and in the mornings I could enjoy my tea, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, fruit and croissants plus my free newspaper. I could work if I needed to, but I'd mainly read, relax and sleep. I could take as much luggage as I needed and I could take my makeup and drinks on board. Bliss.
Travelling by air was a nightmare for a 45 minute domestic flight. Never mind the queues at the budget airline counters (online check in for me), it was getting to an out-of-town airport that meant an expensive train ticket and going through airport security and an uncomfortable plane ride for me.
I hope Maglev trains are built in the USA. I used to have to take a long train ride from Chicago to Western Illinois when my dad couldn't drive me (a rarity) and it was something like 5 or more hours. Hell, even Chicago to Springfield was a bit of a trek. I don't even want to talk about Chicago to Sacamento. (Seriously, a bus from LA to Bakersfield?? I thought I'd lost my mind.)
I don't understand why even the dumbest of idiots would be against a safe and effiecient rail service that could be the envy of the world. If there were high- speed rail services across the USA, imagine the job creation and I am not talking about the people that build them. More people will be needed to drive the trains, to serve on them, to work at the station and to run the cafes and other businesses that operate in train stations. I forgot, forward thinking is not a Repub strong point.
Mr Jindal must also remember that California just passed a High Speed Rail bond which, if everything goes right, should create the basis for a new regional, clean-tech, very rapid transportation network. I can envisage a time when a person could go from Sacramento (or further north) to Phoenix without ever emitting any greenhouse gases and doing it in a very reasonable amount of time. Gov. Jindal's myopia astounds me!! It should also be noted that such a transportation network would benefit around, or more than, 1 in 10 U.S. residents.
To me he looks like one of the drugged kids in Indiana Jones/Temple of Doom. Maybe that explains the zombie eyes and nonsense spewing from his mouth.
GOP Utah Gov. Said:
In an interview with the Washington Times, the Republican governor of Utah on Monday said his party's leaders in Congress' lack of new ideas renders them so "inconsequential" that he doesn't even bother to talk to them.
"I don't even know the GOP congressional leadership," Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. told the paper's editors and reporters. "I have not met them. I don't listen or read whatever it is they say because it is inconsequential -- completely." Huntsman added that he would not reject any money from President Obama's stimulus. While he criticized what he saw as misdirected spending in bill, he said Republicans had no credibility on fiscal responsibility.
"Our moral soapbox was completely taken away from us because of our behavior in the last few years," he said. "For us to now criticize analogous behavior is hypocrisy. We've got to come at it a different way. We've got to prove the point. It can't be as the Chinese would say, 'fei hua,' [or] empty words."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/gop-...
Scary the way he shambled towards the camera like a zombie, with that maniacally intense expression. Was he going to pounce with teeth filed into pointy fangs?
Then the incredible revelation that Obama was America's first African American president. Did you know that?? Wow! And Bobby himself was a "pre-existing condition" for his own mom, which seemed kinda ironic in that it resulted in his parents getting into financial trouble...which wouldn't have been a problem if America had...nationalized health care!
Oh, and Obama is building a levitating train from Mickey's House to Cesar's Palace. Really. No, really. Well, not really, but Jingo was willing to say it anyway. Loved the bit on how the government (Bush's) didn't do any good for Katrina victims. We know, Bobby, that's why we kicked out all your friends.
I really, really hope we see a lot more of Bobby Jingo. Comedy gold, I swear!
Everyone knows that zawmbies ain't got no fangs!
Other than that...your post is right on. };)>
Ok, Republicans don't seem to think that government spending creates jobs or stimulates anything. Well who would build that Maglev? Mystical Pixies and gnomes? Will it just sprout up from the Earth like a gift from Satan?
They believe that World War II, not The New Deal, brought us out of the Great Depression. Was that magic or government spending? They have to realize that either way, in that argument, they come out looking crazy if they're properly brought to task.
And there is the problem - they aren't properly challenged. Despite what Republicans say, if most channels (we know FOX never will do this) properly challenge ALL politicians when they make claims that are bad, those politicians blaming the media as biased will just make them look crazy to most people and make the media look more credible... of course that won't happen. What am I thinking?
Wow, if this is the Republican's great hope, they're in big trouble. I tried listening to this guy, but just couldn't take it.
red bull the during the past eight years.
Poor Bobby Jindal. First, he tells the unemployed of Louisiana to go piss up a rope- they aren't gonna get the federal unemployment extension because their Governor is against it it principle.
Next, Ebenezer Jindal follows the new President (whose performance was nothing short of supurb) and comes off looks like the lying, smarmy baffoon that he is.
No wonder Joe The Plumber looks so good to Republicans!
I'm so tired of all of the bad news and predictable bullshit that I barely register most of what is going on these days because we are FUCKED. I wouldn't have imagined for a second that Obama would have come out swinging like he did. I found myself astounded. I was ready to spit at the screen in scorn. Great speech. Shockingly populistic. And he craftily cornered just about all the accomplices to avarice and death in the room. Notice Biden and Pelosi. How hilarious. Oh, and Feinstein, she was looking like her diapers needed a changing.
The Orrin Hatch calling out while he was twittering was classic.
Hope our all balls Prez can follow through on that ballpark swing. Wow.
But who in the HELL is this rebuttal idiot from Louisiana and since when are we all happy faced about immigrants with darker skin from foreign lands? WHAT? Second generation Indians? NO WAY, DEEP SOUTH, YOU FUCKING FAKERS. Since when?
This entire thing is so bizzare that it's taken me hours to recover from the sheer Orwellien stupidity and beyond.
Who in the FUCK is in control of the G.O.P.? Obviously they have a serious schism.
I wanted to laugh out loud at this poor soul but instead I saw him as a pathetic, last-minute useful idiot.
Can't wait for the G.O.P. to simply fall down crying and break up into different parties or just keep up the bizarre schizophrenia.
I'm never one to stray far from suspiscion and this whole debacle almost leads me to believe it's a set-up to allow Obama to do what he has to do because otherwise this country is on it's financial knees and the corporate entities that really are in charge KNOW IT.
Greenspan wanting to nationalize the banks? They all know what has to be done.
If not, holy shit are the Republicans just DONE. FRIED.
Hard to fathom it's not on purpose.
Somebody's a fool.
Useful tool.
Un-fucking-real.
Whenever I hear anyone complain about taxes like Governor Jindal I want to laugh. It's always the same tactics with conservative, the tactics of fear. Trying to make people afraid of taxes, or enemies from across the oceans coming to take away our freedom. Their tactics of fear of taxes are losing it's effectiveness. Telling the American people that taxes will cause more poverty, and that if we just give into the demands of corporate America and Wall Street that jobs and prosperity will increase. That lie has been proven wrong. Bush gave corporate America, and Wall Street hug tax cuts, with his assurance that it would create jobs and prosperity. Well all that happened is that the wealthy became more wealthy, and in their greed they continued to demand more. Demanding more productivity from the working class for less pay, while at the same time increasing the cost of living. A cost of living that the working class's decreased pay caused our quality of life to decline also.
During the eight years of Bush, and the conservatives in control of the government we have seen the disparity between the haves, and the have nots grow even more extreme. Corporate executives, and Wall Street making millions while the working class that is the strength of the economy lose their health care, their homes, their pay, and their jobs. The greed, and selfishness of those with vast wealth is causing real harm to America. The sickness of greed that the wealthy spread, telling us that equality is evil and anti-American while limitless ambition and greed is not, needs to stop.
I could not believe they chose this guy to deliver the rebuttal. What an @ssclown he turned out to be. His opening is one of the most hilarious I've seen since McCain's town hall performance. Really, it sounded like he was auditioning for the part of host for a kid's show. All he needed was a fuzzy bunny suit with ears. Maybe all repubs think they need to dumb it down and talk to people like they're a bunch of pre-schoolers but lock him and Palin in a supermarket and they'd probably starve to death. The guy's a walking comedy routine.
Starve to death in a supermarket! An instant classic. Lol.
I was expecting some charisma and depth from this rising Republican "superstar"... not even close!
This guy is as deep as a petri dish.
I always thought Laura Petrie a dish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANvMAyXuQpI
Republicans are Brainwashed!
It's really, really hard not to just say that the people who voted for this creep don't want any help and so they shouldn't get any. Unfortunately, there a whole bunch who didn't and a lot of children who don't deserve to pay the price for their parents' folly.
It's really, REALLY hard for her not to say that, but she did.
Jindal is a piece of shit. The entire reTHUG party are pieces of shit.
What's new.
The Dems are hardly better. Obama's speech didn't raise my hopes any. More of the same corporately fed bullshit but the C&Lers say, "Amen" to anything Dem.
go use your superior intellect somewhere else?
it's really depressing for us simpletons.
What an embarrassment! This guy wouldn't even make a good used car salesman at a 'Buy here-Pay here' lot. My apologies to those used car salesmen for the comparison. It makes me wonder whether the voters of Louisiana are naive or stupid.
..I would rather see the biblical End of Days then see another Republican voted into any office including DogCatcher!
He lies about the train. The Rethuglicans are going to keep that up for as long as necessary until the country or a percentage of the electorate think, "Hey, it must be true!". Here's what I got from Jindal last night: "We need to go back to the way it was when we were in power. We need to see America totally bankrupt so we can make believe we are going to ride to the rescue of the poor American by helping rich people get richer!" Seriously, that's what I got from Mr. Jindal. Mr. Jindal = LOSER
no thank you.
..something I'm sure the Rethuglicans never imagined: What if, the Maglev train between Disneyland and Vegas was actually a GOOD idea. What if infrastructure at the park was in place to actually allow this to be economically feasible in terms of parking, access to a suitable corridor, etc. The Stim does not call for a train specifically from Anaheim/Disneyland to Vegas; its only going to fund a project somewhere. Well, what if it was found that the best bang for the buck would be to move people from Disneyland to Vegas, I'm just sayin'..So in typical GOP fashion, every idea that not theirs', is a bad idea. They're so smart; look what they've done for America!
..about his refusal to take Stim money for the unemployed. Schumer basically said, Don't refuse the 1% of unemployment money on moral grounds and then take the other 99%. If you don't like the Stim Plan, don't accept ANY of the money!
As I understand it, it won't be a myth in Japan and China with German help. But, then, our nation is home to the creationism museum.
Spring is coming soon and, last time I took Amtrak, the rail beds were so soggy along the Upper Mississippi that they could barely support a train so stretches of 25 mph weren't unlikely. Or even being off-loaded onto a bus.
Let's see what we have here: Palin, Steele, Jindal as Contenders. Limbaugh, Hannity, OReilly, Malkin as cheerleaders. All you have to do is imagine, then, who is sopping this nonsense up and whether it is worth trying to get through to them somehow. Night of the Living Dead?
great, except when you take into consideration their constituency. they have all been brainwashed by fat ass rush.
Obama = a doubleheader concert with Led Zeppelin & the Rolling Stones (both in their prime)
Jindal = a doubleheader concert with Winger & Nelson
Now, imagine the first concert precedes the second
And that's what you had last night...
what's up with jindal, doesn't he know the republican mantra "the rich get richer and the poor grovel in their ignorance." smart young dude, but a republican so how smart can he be. maybe as smart as his Louisiana constituency. the republicans were completely behind the non efforts of fema in katrina shame. and yet they would vote a republican into office. Whoa, because he is dark does not make him a minority. he's just another spoke on the wheel. wake up Louisiana. he is one of them. we do live in crazy times.
Bobby Jindal is one of the very few rich Indians who do not care for their roots, don't care for poor needy people. They blindly support Republican party only because they offer tax savings to rich. He is a disgrace to majority of lae abiding, caring and hard working Indian residing in the States.
Jindal is so stupid that he does not know the color of his skin. He doesn't know that he is hated by white supremist, KKKs,white religeous extremists, who are all Republicans. If he walks the streets of Mississippi at night, he will probably be killed by white supremists!
a few others like that. They are making it in Murka so they could not care less about the rest of the suffering masses around the globe. They are exclusively Repugs.
He put me to sleep in six minutes.
is there any way to stop the popups in the right corner of the page announcing new comments. it's really irritating when posting a new comment and the box hides the last few words. just saying. besides i haven't had my coffee yet and i need something to complain about.
Ya'll Betcha!
Jindal...
Go be irrelevant somewhere else...
jindal, what part of this don't you understand, your president and his entourage created what is arguably the the biggest financial mess this country has ever seen. obama puts forth a stimulus bill to stem the tide (check the Dow) and what do you and all those who would latch onto any thing that they perceive will elevate them with their party or their constituency, they complain with a loud voice, but what do they have to offer instead. nothing, that's right nothing, but meaningless platitudes, far easier to be critiucal and if it does fail they can surface as "i told you so's" and if it succeeds as should we all be hoping it will, the naysayers will crawl back into their holes of obscurity. jindal, you and palin have had your 15 minutes, now shut up.
So ironic, what a joke. The poor Evanjellokills only have dewshes like Steele and Jimangi to listen to now. Are all the old free-mason type republicans too ashamed to speak now?
The right wingers in the country have got to be at the boiling point, good thing they are only around 30% of the populous. Wonder what they are gonna do......besides loose more elections. :P
From Daily Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/24/23132...
Perhaps this is why Steele "heard" Gov. Bobby's speech but
didn't watch it...............
It was good to see Chris Matthews point out the lies in Jindals speech.
I'm getting really sick of hear the republitards say that government isn't the answer, the American people are the answer. The last time I checked the government was completely staffed by American people.
Jindal/Palin or Palin/Jindal in 2012. It doesn't matter - either is a dream ticket. Oh please, please, please.
Signed
Barack Obama
Jindal better not try to slime in on my ticket!
Flush Jindal in 2012.
Signed,
Joe the Plumber
I don't think bobby jindal has a snowballs chance of getting anywhere near the Whitehouse, except as a tour-guide.
I mean let's face it, even though it shouldn't be this way, presidents are elected often on just their photogenic appearance. Nixon was probably the last not to have this while running, but he made up for it in gravitas, and compared to Humphrey and George Wallace, he appeared to be moderate.
Making up for gravitas with fumbling is what boosh is known for, hardly something to run on.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/24/23132...
From Daily Kos
A republican? LYING?!?!
Say it ain't so Maggie!!!
Equally pissing off racists and progressives.
Boy is the GOP fucked.
Nice L&L!
LMAO!!!
Am I connected to Crooks And Liars?
Having trouble this AM.
He bagged a few years and changed his name to Bobby. Remember, he hates everything.
Well he's right that there's a train involved, a train wreck of his political career that is.
The invasion of the body snatchers has taken place...though why they wanted him, I can't fathom....the era of the "Stepford Republicans" has arrived...you see, this is Republican karma. They've had their heads up their hineys for so long, that the very concept of truth and justice is completely foreign to them, so when they open their mouths to speak, the only thing that comes out is the same unintelligible babble they've programmed themselves to utter since the Nixon administration. One can only "see the light" when one removes one's head from the darkness up one's hiney...well, our nation's comedians need these idiots as comedic fodder, as these brainless robots are guaranteed to "bring the house down." Seriously though, folks, I think Jindal's glassy-eyed demeanor and strange mannerisms are telling of a more likely truth...he'd been Mardi Grasing already & was three sheets to the wind. Yep. That's my theory & I'm stickin' to it.
Jindal...Steele...Palin...
Just one more, and we could have the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for the GOP!
What an EPIC FAIL!
Sweet pole dancin christ! Jindal couldn't be any more....what's the word? GAWD fuckin AWFUL! What a waste of airtime!
JIndal, Steele, Palin and McCain--all anyone needs to know about the meltdown of the GOP can be found with these four.
Jindal...Steele...Palin...
GingrichCantor. There's your Four Horsemen.The Asses of MediEVIL.
I've heard this guy a few times on right-wing radio. He's strange, Hannity or Medved would ask him a question and he would, literally, spout non-stop for 3 minutes at breakneck speed. I think the Red Bull/pot analogy is pretty close. It's like he's on speed and breathlessly rambles and throws out talking points until somebody finally stops him. Ask Jindal a question and then step outside for a smoke - - he'll still be talking when you come back to the studio. He's memorized all of the lies and spews them in a constant stream.
That speech was great for Palin. Awful for Jingle. Worse than awful for the GOP. For the first time I am beginning to think the GOP might actually become extinct.
That perhaps Mr Bobbies performance was due to a Bollywood director, including the walk into the camera and the tall tales, that seem to emanate from a RePUG Mafia Maharisi.
Just saying ... ... ...
"bobby" killed your parrot?
my, what is the world coming to?
Little too dark a hue to be a cracker.
I'm on the "road to Escondido" today to work and I'll have to listen to representatives of the 20% dead enders who still think Obama is a socialist trying to steal their guns (HR45)and raise their taxes. Unfortunately the boss is one of them so I have to bite my lip to keep working. I'm an independent contractor so I have no workplace rights.
Isn't nice to see a Republican crash and burn? Hehehehhehe
Katrina? For real? In monotone? You have to be kidding.
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