Posted on 05/14/2008 6:16:57 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
GOVERNOR JINDAL: (snip) They started defending spending and earmarks, that was not defensible that they railed against when they were the majority, that's our work cutting taxes down here in Louisiana and showing that you can be truly conservative.
But secondly, you also said something very important at the beginning of our interview which is, we as Americans have to be vigilant. What this incident proved after Katrina was that it's not enough just to say it will never happen in America, because it is happening in America. It did happen in America. And that means we've got to be vigilant every day before there's another Katrina, before there's another disaster because you're right. It shouldn't have taken a federal law to enforce a constitutional right. That right was already in -- you know, and my argument to people that don't like the Second Amendment is it's black and white letter law. People are always inventing things, adding things to the Constitution that aren't there. Here's something that's clearly there. If you don't like it, go try to change it, but don't ignore it. Don't ignore the fact that it's so explicitly in the Constitution to me, and I'm no attorney but I'm amazed at how attorneys can find things in the Constitution that aren't written there and somehow conveniently ignore what is written there. And the arguments against it are bogus. The arguments that, well, it's outdated or whatever. The argument is if you don't like it, go change it. But you don't have the right to ignore it or interpret it to think what you think it means. That Second Amendment right is important. We need it. It's not theoretical, it's not hypothetical.
(Excerpt) Read more at glennbeck.com ...
He’s a lot better on TV or radio than in print. The English in this transcript is almost unreadable.
I sure hope so. By the way, thank you for your service!
Bobby Jindal will be President one day - it’s only a matter of timing, and after the Republican Party rises from the ashes of the McCain-RINO meltdown of 2008-2010 and the failed Obama administration debacle of 2009-2113.
If the US still exists.
Bill to end (Louisiana) income tax stalls (Jindal stabs La. taxpayers in the back)
Jindal finally on board tax cut train, but paid high fare
I keep reading from the conservative punditry that Jindal's a "rising star", etc. But when I hear him talk he reminds me of a slick snake oil salesman. Like a typical politician. Always made me take a step back and wonder.
Bingo!!!
You should have heard him running around after Katrina wailing that it was Bush's (national gov't) fault. Wailing for more and more money from the feds. All the while refusing to criticize his friend, nutty Nagin. Why not jump on Nagin? Easy, he endorsed Jindal in the previous election, thus earning a pass for his idiocy.
Jindal will never be president no matter how much he salivates for it.
I hadn’t heard any of that. Thanks for the info.
Yep, I read the linked transcript. Glenn Beck does sound almost unreadable when his conversations are converted to print. Are yours better?
OTOH, Jindal made perfect sense...
I never have understood why Katrina was the fault of George W. Bush. The ineptitude of Ray Nagin and Governor Blanco in their respone to Katrina led to the massive federal intervention there. Yet Bush gets blamed for not doing enough, not getting there soon enough, too little too late to provide relief, having no plan to evacuate the city, when evacuation plans are the responsibility of local officials, etc. It just boggles the mind that Ray Nagin and company get a pass in the MSM and it was all Bush’s fault.
Then Bush finally sent in the marines and national guard, and then Cindy Sheehan was in New Orleans then, saying she was afraid of getting shot by our troops. She said why were US troops making a war zone out of New Orleans??? The leftists really tagged Bush and FEMA as being at fault, unfairly in my opinion. We all learned a lot about disaster planning from this disaster, so maybe some good will come of it in the future.
I hadn’t heard any of that either. I don’t know much about him. rush has really been for this guy by the way. I wonder why?
Can’t say. I only read some of this dirt on Jindal the last few days. I suppose we’ll have to hear more from the Lousiana locals over time.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-6/121082989540410.xml&coll=1
Jindal agrees to eliminate Stelly plan’s tax increases
Starting Jan. 1, rates would fall to 2002 levels
Thursday, May 15, 2008
By Jan Moller
BATON ROUGE — Facing growing momentum for some sort of tax cut, Gov. Bobby Jindal and legislative leaders agreed Wednesday to roll back the 2002 Stelly plan income tax increases starting in 2009.
The deal emerged after several days of backroom negotiations and appears to defuse a politically tenuous situation for Jindal, who did not initially embrace a tax cut even though the state treasury is brimming with record revenue.
Although the agreement still needs ratification from the Legislature, Jindal’s support makes approval of a tax cut likely before the session adjourns June 23.
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http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/18962514.html?showAll=y&c=y
Jindal agrees to compromise on bill
* By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON
* Advocate Capitol News Bureau
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SB87 would tax individual income between $12,500 and $50,000 at 4 percent.
State Rep. Joel Robideaux, No Party-Lafayette, said an additional $25,000 in income would be taxed at 4 percent instead of 6 percent.
The savings will be a significant amount of money, he said.
Jindal initially refused to back the bill.
The legislation — which the Senate turned into an elimination of the state income tax — quickly picked up momentum, especially after an additional $824 million over two financial years was recognized for state government. The Jindal administration and the legislative leadership pulled Shaw into a huddle to talk about a compromise.
The compromise announced Wednesday in a hastily called news conference was to return the bill to its original form with the tax break going into effect on Jan. 1, instead of sooner.
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http://www.americanpress.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2625&Itemid=105
Jindal blesses tax cut (5/15)
Multimedia
By JIM BEAM
AMERICAN PRESS
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Jindal said his stance on the legislation changed because the House Appropriations Committee had removed all one-time money in the proposed 2008-09 budget that was being used for ongoing expenses. He called that legislative fiscal discipline.
Sen. Buddy Shaw, R-Shreveport, is sponsor of the legislation, which started out returning income tax brackets to where they were before the Stelly Plan was enacted in 2002. The plan eliminated state sales taxes on food, utilities and prescription drugs in exchange for higher income taxes.
Shaw said during Senate and House debate that the voters in his area made it clear in his election campaign last fall they didn’t like the increased income taxes they were paying as a result of the Stelly Plan. He said it has been his No. 1 objective to roll back those increases.
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Jindal is a tool and a coward. Cares only about National office - wouldn’t even jump to the defense of his state on the Glenn Beck show when Beck blamed the city and state for failed levees that even a half wit knows the levees are built and maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Jindal is a big time wimp.
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