[Founding Father]

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.

[BufordP]

I hadn’t heard any of that. Thanks for the info.

[Dilbert San Diego]

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.