Posted on 10/23/2007 11:34:41 AM PDT by JZelle
Bobby Jindal, who was elected governor of Louisiana last Saturday, may not be a freak of unnatural Louisiana politics, but he's an unsoiled anomaly. The temptations of office, which flower in abundance along the bayous, lie still ahead.
That's the cynical view, but one widely held in Louisiana, a state battered by nature (most recently Hurricane Katrina), and human nature (the examples never end). "Corruption in Louisiana," a one-time agent in charge of the FBI office in New Orleans once said, is "epidemic, endemic and entrenched." Graft three ways, as it might appear on the menu at a Chinese takeout. Louisiana is always ready for a party — "Laissez les bon temps roulez," as the locals say. Let the good times roll. But now Mr. Jindal insists the party's over.
He promises to throw out the rogues, rascals, scoundrels and scamps, and maybe he will. If he does, George W. should send him to Baghdad. Louisiana is not really Southern, the author A.J. Liebling shrewdly observed, but Middle Eastern. Intrigue is the state sport.
The governor-elect is a technocrat, and a bureaucrat as well, born of immigrant parents from India, where bureaucracy is the national sport. He vows to make war on sloth as well as rot, to banish evildoers to the unemployment lines if not to prison. "They can go quietly or they can go loudly," he said during the campaign, "but they're going to go."
He intends to call in the Legislature, which is not reform-minded insofar as anyone has ever noticed, to enact a code of ethics. He's likely to invite more resistance than repentance. "You might find an ethic in the Legislature," a former governor once said, "and you might find a virgin in a bordello. But it's a heckuva place to look for either one."
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You know exactly why. Stop arguing like a leftist.
Calling them out on their misuse of funds and general corruption, all while he was an insider there at the UN.
However, he is by no means the real conservative after he stated that he supported S-Chips and would even vote to override a veto.
We also have to remember that Jindal will not be the state’s first Republican Governor. We had Foster, Roemer and Treen as governor all Republicans and corruption is still and always has been rampant.
Good luck, Governor!
You sure do have a lot of cleaning up to do.
Did the misuse of funds and general corruption subside? No. Did the U.S. gain influence in the UN? No. Did Bolton change anything for the better there? No. Bolton was wasted on the UN. Nobody in that body listened to Bolton or took him seriously because they knew that he had no respect for them or for the UN in general, and they also knew that they would still be there long after Bolton was gone. And that's precisely what happened. If it had been up to me I'd have left the UN ambassador spot empty and sent a message to the UN that way. In effect telling them that they aren't important enough for the U.S. to send an ambassador to.
Has he managed to pull Blanco out from under the governor’s desk yet?
Bobby’s not perfectly conservative. Fine. And there have been other Republican Governors. Check. Louisiana is rampantly corrupt. Of course.
Here’s what’s important: Louisiana has never had a better opportunity to change how business is done down there, and has never had a better leader to help them make that change than right now.
If your only contribution to this moment is to lie and complain and be utterly negative, cynical and self-absorbed, well, you certainly won’t be the only Louisianian doing this, but you and the others will all be immoral, counterproductive jerks who have no right to complain about anything.
Jindal ‘12.
Good point but the UN probably wouldn’t have picked up on the hint of leaving an empty seat at the UN. I feel if Bolton was given a full term, heads would have rolled and the organization as a whole would have imploded./
well i am glad to see we picked up a Governor’s seat
didnt hear anything about this in the MSM at all either
Please post actual votes on actual legislation that prove your case that Bobby Jindal is a RINO or shut the hell up.
Your lying and drama queen tactics are getting old.
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