Bobby Jindal stepped up to the plate on
Tuesday and didn’t strike out—he wet himself in front of the entire
stadium. He then proceeded to beat
himself up side the dome with his bat.
His delivery was awkward and forced; his lines of criticism murky and
flawed. I’d say that he took himself out
for 2012, but frankly could care less whether that is or is not the case. What is obvious is that the Republican Party
is out of ideas and their only political move is to push their chips all in and
hope that a President who is actually trying to do something will fail.
Governor Jindal criticized government for
corruption and failure to act. He used
Katrina as an example of this—uh Bobby do you recall who was in charge during
that time? He insinuated that the
Stimulus Bill was filled with corruption and completely misrepresented
President Obama’s words regarding the seriousness of the crisis that we are
in. Oh yeah, he also mocked provisions
in that Bill for high speed rail and provisions to buy new vehicles for
government. Hey Bobby—high speed rail is
a tremendous idea, potentially solving many issues that we currently face and
the purchase of automobiles is indeed stimulus, potentially saving many jobs
that might be lost if those vehicles are not bought.
The identity crisis the right is facing has
led to everything from revisionist history regarding FDR’s New Deal failure, to
the tired old lines of tax and spend liberal.
The posturing regarding the spending of this most recent Bill is absurd—the
pot indeed calls the kettle black. The
past eight years have been a spend fest—a Paris Hilton shopping spree of lavish
proportions!
President Obama is hard at work trying to
repair the several holes in this ship before it hits the bottom of the
ocean. Perhaps having a President who is
actually working is confusing the right seeing as how President Bush (43) spent
nearly a third of his time on vacation—977 days! Perhaps having a President whose policies are
directed to helping the majority of Americans is shocking and wrong. This still does not explain why so many
people, who must desire to be the uber rich, have issues with Obama’s policies—folks
if you don’t make more than 250K you’re not really affected.
In the beginning stages of President Obama’s
reign we as Americans, regardless of party affiliation, owe it to him to be
open to change. The tired old rhetoric
of trickledown economics—which they no longer use those words, but just because
you no longer call a duck a duck doesn’t mean it is not a duck, have failed so
the need to look elsewhere is present.
To criticize President Obama over spending when we are in one of the
worst economic situations is hardly fair; especially after the spending spree
the right has taken us on recently. To
say the government has no business in helping aid people is plain stupid, and
to misrepresent President Obama’s plans, as Jindal did, as faith in government
and not people is plain wrong.
Look
around you folks—plenty of hardworking, well educated, dedicated and
hardworking people are either out of work, or have recently been. The idea that a simple will to work is enough
is not the case—not right now. The idea
that government should let the auto industry fail, banks and financial
institutions fail, is dangerous and scary at the least. I don’t claim to know exactly what needs to
happen, but I do know that the role of government is to protect the
people. I do know that we finally have a
President who is working and who has thus far kept his word of offering a hand
to the other party. If Republicans want
to posture and misrepresent the President’s words and policies they have
apparently learned very little from the debacle of the last eight years.
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