Republicans hate Government intervention (except tax cuts for the super-wealthy, wars, and surveillance. The New Deal and Obama's stimulus plan drive Republicans to the edge of insanity. Some Republicans are so anti-New Deal, that they claim that the Depression was stated by the New Deal. It is chronologically unfortunate for these deluded people that the stock market crash occurred in 1929 and Roosevelt took office in 1933.

Republicans are predictable and stand on their core values, even during a national crisis. During world war II a Conservative who disliked Government intervention named Avery Sewell ran Montgomery Ward. Montgomery Ward was a retailer and manufacturer that supplied clothing and auto parts felt to be an important part of the War effort.

Sewell had a labor dispute with Montgomery Ward workers. Disutes were handled during WWII by a National War Labor Board. The board had brokered a labor agreement between Ward and three labor unions between 194 and 1944. Sewell disagreed with the decision.

When Sewell failed to comply with a second appeal to comply by the Labor board in April of 1944, Roosevelt ordered the Army National Guard to seize the company's main plant in Chicago. There is a classic picture of Sewell being carried by National Guardsmen from his office still sitiing in his chair.

Sewell continuued to be obstinent and on December 27, 1944, the Secratary of War was ordered to seize Montgomery's plants and facilities in New York, Michigan, California, Illinois, Colorado and Oregon.

Sewell' favorite put down was to call someone a "New Dealer". Government action even in a time of crisis was something that did not stop Sewell from trying to undermine labor unions. Like the scorpion willing to drown after stinging the frog carrying him across the pond, Sewll could not help himself.

Similarly Jindal cannot help but see the failures of the Bush administration during Katrina as indicative of all government. Bobby Jindal cannot see the irony of saying that government is not helpful as he stands before the cameras as the Governor of Louisiana. He cannot understand the importance of volcanic warning systems, just as Bush could nt comprehend what government meteorologists were telling him could befall New Orleans.

Like Sewell, Bush, and the scorpion., Jindal is willing to take himself down as he takes all of us down. All that matters to Jindal is that he stuck to his true nature, his core principles.







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