Posted on 02/23/2009 10:27:32 AM PST by rabscuttle385
MONROE -- When Gov. Bobby Jindal talks to the nation Tuesday, he will be feted by the national Republican Party as the GOP's own man of hope -- an antidote to President Barack Obama.
Louisiana's 37-year-old governor will deliver the GOP's response to Obama's national address, and it'll be a breakthrough moment. He'll be the talk of political junkies, and the conservative punditry will likely gush over him and his inspirational story, the Rhodes Scholar son of Indian immigrants.
But there's a twist: Back home in Louisiana, a state that turns more Republican with every election cycle, Jindal is not conservative enough for some. He's facing a rebellion from an unlikely source -- the homegrown conservative punditry.
The wellhead of discontent can be traced to a syndicated political talk radio host at a small station in Monroe in north Louisiana. Around these parts, he is affectionately called the "Louisiana Limbaugh."
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
LOL! Gotta love Santelli. Big brass balls there.
Sorry. I didn’t actually read the amendments you mentioned. I assumed you meant the egregious amendments, like the 16th and 23rd. Those should be repealed. (Why would you even mention the others? Do you actually know anyone on FR that wants to re-institute slavery?)
By the way, the amendment process does not give Congress carte blanche to violate the fundamental principles of the original text.
Funny Rush called him an already elected version of Ronald Reagan today. That’s huge from Rush.
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“Do you actually know anyone on FR that wants to re-institute slavery?”
I do know of many who want to return to the glory days of the Confederacy.
“By the way, the amendment process does not give Congress carte blanche to violate the fundamental principles of the original text.”
Marbury v. Madison/Judicial review.
The Rhodes program IS NOT a preparation course for the future leaders of FREE nations. “Rhodes scholar” always sets my alarms off, it is not always an asset.
C. B. Forgotston, a Hammond, LA lawyer is mentioned in the story. His website is here:
Both Moon and C. B. are personal friends of mine, I’m proud to say.
Marbury v. Madison...totally flawed decision, which happened to open the pandoras box of judicial review carrying such weight. Read Madison and Hamilton’s view of the judiciary in the Federalist Papers. Their reach was to be limited. Marshall overstepped. Bad precedent.
By the way, I don’t think that the glory days of the Confederacy has anything to do with slavery. The Confederacy was standing up to the tyrannical Federal Govt. It was about the 10th Amendment. The United States was designed to be a loose confederation of states, not an overpowering Federal mother ship.
There may be a handful of sicko confederates out there not bothered by slavery, but I think most would oppose slavery.
“I don’t think that the glory days of the Confederacy has anything to do with slavery.”
The Confederacy was all about slavery.
My Facebook profile has stated "Palin/Jindal 2012" since Nov. 4, 2008. I initially posted it as something of a joke, mostly to ruffle the feathers of many of my old (mostly liberal) college buddies. With each new day that passes, however, I'm becoming more and more confident that such a ticket could actually happen... :-)
That is just incorrect. Very few people in the south even owned slaves. The Confederacy was a rebellion against the Federal govt deciding that it could tell the states what to do.
Don’t you find it interesting that the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the rebellious parts of the south, but allowed Union states and certain “non-rebellious” parishes of Louisiana to keep their slaves?
Slavery happened to be the issue that created the fissure. But most confederates didn’t own slaves, and many were opposed to the practice. Doesn’t mean that they thought it was ok for Lincoln to declare war on them.
I am one who would have vocally opposed slavery along with the other Christians who did the same.
Hey, I’m open to repealing the 16th.. and, depending on which side of the bed I get up on in the morning, the 17th. ;)
I challenge you to post a list of similarities between Jindal and Crist.
It seems to me he wasn't white enough for some back when he ran against Madam Blanco for the governorship. North La thru him to the wolves for the lady from Lafayette. This article sounds a little like it may be some Huey/Earl/Russell Long supporters, etc.
Both like to spend taxpayer’s money.
http://tallahassee.com/article/20090127/CAPITOLNEWS/90127012&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
Updated: Crist vetoes $90.9 million in spending cuts
By Jim Ash • Florida Capital Bureau Chief • January 27, 2009
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1205212833281810.xml&coll=1&thispage=1
Jindal’s plan to exceed spending cap advances
Resolution gets OK of House committee
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Considering some of the things I read here on FR during the last election, JESUS wouldn’t be a pure enough conservative enough for some of those folks.
You don't know what you're talking about. Moon could write the script for any conservative blog in the US. He's pro-life, pro 2nd Amendment, anti-tax, pro-business, and for less government at ALL levels. He proclaims all these principles and more every day on his radio show. I know the man. I listen to him.
He's one of the few people I know with the stones to challenge a popular politician who, once elected, failed to do what he said he would do.
Government spending taxpayer money. Gee. What a concept. He’s spending a previous years surplus to fund roads and bridges. New construction and repairs and economic developement. Are you proposing to say that road building is not the proper function of government? Are you saying that conservatives are against road improvements?
Sigh...
Yes, that's the ticket!! Government spending is economic development!! You sound just like Obama, spouting that claptrap.
Today here in Louisiana we are now building 4-lane roads that aren't needed and bridges to nowhere. Meanwhile the road maintenance program doesn't keep up the roads we have now.
Louisiana now has 4,000 more state employees today than when Jindal was sworn in. Look it up.
What I'm telling you is the man is a tax and spend Republican.
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