September 30, 2009
ATTENTION REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS: Please, stop with your predictions and advice.
What is it with these Republican governors? Jindal is advising the party to work with President Obama:
Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal urged his party in an interview Tuesday to shift to offering health care solutions instead of just rejecting what President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are proposing.
“I think now is the perfect time to pivot and to say, not only here’s what we’re against, and not only here’s how we’re going to contrast ourselves, but here’s what we’re for,” Jindal said in an interview Tuesday with POLITICO.
Jindal acknowledged that the Republican Party for years had been too slow to stake out positions on the health care debate “to our peril and the nation’s peril.”
“I think that in some circles, it was viewed as a Democratic issue,” said Jindal, who served in top posts at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Bush administration and ran his state’s health department in the ’90s.
Jindal urged congressional Republicans to go to the White House and find common ground with Obama.
“Let’s start anew,” he said they should tell the president. “We’re willing to work with you in a bipartisan way.”
First of all, Gov. Jindal, there have been plenty of Republican ideas offered. My boyfriend Sen. Tom Coburn is one of them. Unfortunately, Barack Obama doesn’t want to hear about them. His agenda is antithetical to what the Republican platform is and, therefore, any attempt at bipartisanship on the health care issue–and, most other issues, for that matter–will inevitably lead to the Dems giving Republicans window-dressing changes in order to secure their support so they can a) pass their monstrous health care bill, and b) claim bipartisanship in order to win votes, while blaming the Republicans who held true to their principles for being obstructionist. Thank you for playing right into their hands, there, Bobby.
I have never been impressed with Bobby Jindal. I was waiting to see the greatness and understand why people love him and I think I’m starting to get it. The obsession with him after the election was probably more about the color of his skin and the fact that he’s not the dreaded “old white guy.” Remember when he mischaracterized Cheney’s remarks a while back? I do. And, now this.
As to what that other idiot Republican governor said yesterday about Obama facing a major electoral defeat, we can add Bobby Jindal to my list of people who will not beat Barack Obama in the 2012 election, in case anyone is considering whether or not he should run. It might not get us anywhere, because I don’t meet all of the qualifications for the presidency, but I think that everyone should write my name in on the ballot. Stuart 2012!
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Bobby Jindal is off my Christmas card list now…
Comment by setnaffa — September 30, 2009 @ 12:28 pm
That’s a stupid quote, but I’d like Jindal to be prez. We are facing tough times in the future, so we need someone who actually knows stuff, like getting accepted to Ivy League med school and law school, not someone who is good at making money quotes and speeches.
Comment by Mitchell Blatt — September 30, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
Jindal continues to show himself to be a McCain Republican you know the kind that likes the media attention and in trying to get it throws other Republicans under the bus! I had high hopes for him early on but he has shown me NOTHING! If he takes down ACORN in LA then he can come up again but until then he is just another McCain and that is a dirty word in my house!
Comment by JadedByPolitics — September 30, 2009 @ 6:12 pm