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."
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That's not even remotely close to what I said. But let's get to the road building.
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.
So your problem is not that he's building and repairing roads and bridges it's that he's not repairing the roads that YOU think he should. You're right...he's no damned conservative!
Government spending taxpayer money. Gee. What a concept. Hes spending a previous years surplus to fund roads and bridges. New construction and repairs and economic developement.
Now you tell me how that's any different that what Obama is doing with the Porkulus bill.
And one other question. Are you suggesting that Tax and Spend is good when “our side” does it but not when the Democrats do it?
If that’s your thinking, then we shall just have to fundamentally disagree. I’ll keep my principles, you can have the “change.”
http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A51254
Bobby Jindal’s masquerades
Bump Dat Moon...;0)
I like Jindal, I think he is articulate enough to put these media people in their place and they won’t know what hit them.
The AP is liberal, and like all liberal newspapers, is trying to divide conservatives.
Jindal is a Reagan conservative, and so am I.
I like Jindal, I think he is articulate enough to put these media people in their place and they wont know what hit them.
Jindal is very capable of holding his own in a debate or interview. My real concern with him is that he’s never been in any position for any extended period of time to actually see the consequences of his management decisions.
WASP country LA rejected him the first go round against Blanco. Now that he’s in we’ll see how he does. I suspect he’ll be much better than what LA has had in the past. jmo.
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