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Published Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009 | 12:13 a.m.
Updated Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009 | 3:12 p.m.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal stunk up the Joint – I mean, stunk up the joint – last night with his response to President Obama’s speech to Congress. Given his first opportunity for a televised nationwide address, the hyper-folksy Jindal instead seemed like he was auditioning for a role in the stage revival of “Mayberry RFD.” In a 12-minute performance that could be titled "Pap-A-Palooza," Jindal took another shot at the high-speed rail line that would link Las Vegas to Anaheim, which to the Louisiana governor is actually “Disneyland,” all of it. I was expecting him to next criticize any government bailout of the American auto industry because, good golly, those cars might be used to transport people to Las Vegas. But the light-rail moment wasn’t where Jindal really went off the tracks. If you are a fan of “30 Rock” on NBC, you probably detected something eerily familiar in Jindal’s singsong delivery. So did Jason Linkis of The Huffington Post. Link here to see what I’m talking about.
Update on Wednesday afternoon: According to the Associated Press, a new Facebook group with the name "Bobby Jindal is Kenneth the Page" has drawn more than 1,800 friends by this afternoon.
From my blog:
I got nothing. It was simply a weird speech. How can a governor of a state being rebuilt by the government criticize the government? Strange all the way around.
But the medal goes to Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com
"If it sounds like Jindal is targeting his speech to a room full of fourth graders, that's because he is. They might be the next people to actually vote for Republicans again."
Pure gold.
www.waynelively.com
The Joe Biden remark was a red-in-face bonehead remark by the Obama.
THIS is the best the repugs can do??
He reminds me of a Boris Karloff wannabe that steals corpses just for funsies and late night snacks....
Hey John -- have you taken a look at any of your video performances on here? People in glass houses...
Hey Kats, Karen Dalton-Berniato also compared him to SNL's Tim Calhoun.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-dalt...
Maybe Jindal's just lowering the bar for Palin's failed bid? On a tangent, how much fun would a Jindal-Palin 2012 ticket be?
This made me laugh. Good stuff.
nance,
Would you rather he said "If you're not with Joe, you're against Joe"?
His ignorance was made clear when he mentioned volcano monitoring. That is a matter of life and death in Alaska amongst other places. He might as well have slammed his own state for monitoring the levees. He made it sound like he was single handedly rebuilding Louisiana, all by cutting taxes. Cutting taxes doesn't work if no one has a job to pay taxes on. It's sickening how these republicans are still whole heartedly pushing for the same things that ripped our country apart the past 8 years. One man stepped up and said he could fix it, and now has an overwhelming mandate by the people to do so. So shut up and let him do his thing, you were voted out for good reason and I'm sure when people in the South start thinking outside the box and open their eyes to what's really going on Jindal will also be voted out.