Bobby Jindal bends the regular guy over... refuses fed money for Louisiana's unemployed...wants tax cuts for rich folks!
Bobby Jindal may come to regret his appearance on MTP. He actually said he wouldn't accept the money for those unemployed LA citizens while at the same time demanding more money for business tax cuts...!
Ya know, if he moved his tongue just a little faster Eric Cantor's eyes might roll back in his head. If you know what I mean.
On a totally different subject I think I heard Santelli on a rant about how the Congress didn't know what the hell they were doing when they didn't pass that first Big Bailout bill. Listen to see if you can hear him crying on the Frontline program Inside the Meltdown, when they show that vote that went down in the House.
CNBC= Cheering Nonstop for Big Corporations.
Oh and David "BIG RICHARD" Gregory just couldn't help taking a shot at Obama when Jindal said he wasn't running.
Yes! He's demanding capital gains tax cuts to benefit the mega-wealthy investment bankers and hedge fund managers who caused the economic crisis while denying financial help for laid-off Louisiana workers. And the Republicans think he's the future!
February 22, 2009 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, those mega-wealthy investment bankers are the ones he's counting on to buy him the White House. Every time I look at a photo of this little nutcase I have to laugh. Gravitas? What's that?
February 23, 2009 11:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
His legislature is not going to go along with insanity. The guy looks like a nut.
I really have never seen a party just say no. Picking up Nancy Reagan's mantra for EVERYTHING.
Good post. Bring up something like this at TPM. This is what TPM is all about.
February 22, 2009 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
The guy needs an Exorcism!
February 22, 2009 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not surprisingly, I muffed up the hyoperlink.... http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/bobby_jindals_dance_with_the_d.php
February 22, 2009 1:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bobby Jindal is a phony! This, and what is surely to be a, tax cut, fiscal responsibility, ethics and morality laden response to Obama Tuesday address reeks of an attempt to break out of the Republican pack.
I think nationally Bobby has several problems; the same old tired conservative ideas that got us into this mess, and a raciest Republican base who will be asking, like the lady at a McCain rally, "Isn't he a Muslim?"
February 22, 2009 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you think the redneck yahoos will ask that of a republican? it will be interesting to see if they have a double standard.
February 23, 2009 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cut unemployment benefits and you cut the unemployment rate. The way we determine unemployment statistics in this country is a travesty, and encourages political hacks like Jindal to destroy people's lives so they can play the numbers game. Unfortunately, when one presidential aspirant does it, it provokes the others to do it as well and more people suffer.
February 22, 2009 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wish there was someway to track the people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits and still have not found a job. My son will join those ranks very soon. Not much call for log scalers any more.
February 23, 2009 11:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bobby Jindal is the worst sort of scumbag politician. Here's a man who, as a young man, converts to Roman Catholicism and participates in a self described excorcism and writes about that experience in the most outrageous and crackpottian way. He has never denied or renounced his belief in this experience. He appeals to the dumbest people and the richest. He is willing to say and do anything to win over the former and he's willing to say and do anything to please the latter. He's a slick operator who cares only about positioning himself. He wants to climb higher and sees his latest BS as advancing that cause. I pray the Republicans nominate his lunatic for President next time so we can crush him and them.
February 22, 2009 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe he'll pick Sarah Palin as his VP and we can shoot them both down. She's the Kiss of Death, I'm convinced of that.
February 23, 2009 11:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
I doubt that the economy is going to be in such terrific shape by 2012 that Jindal can run on a platform of cutting unemployment compensation. The Republicans seem to be in a bit of denial about the depth and breadth of the problem.
The only question I have is if the Democrats can focus the building outrage where it belongs -- on the Republicans. Obama can do the postpartisan b.s. if he likes, but he better find a few attack dogs to keep the Republican wolves away from the door.
February 22, 2009 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
bluebell: Absolutely. Obama needs attack dogs to completely tar and feather the GOP. Destroy their reputations for decades to come. GOP "leadership" should be ashamed to show their faces in public. We need more attack Dems (ie, the Mayor of Lansing) playing GOP wack-a-mole on Cable News.
February 22, 2009 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
You got my vote! Saw Lansing Mayor live, awesome!!!
February 22, 2009 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
God forbid that he didn't want the string attached to require him to increase taxes on his state businesses. Spend a dollar to get a dime - why do Democrats think that's a good idea?
He also wants more tax cuts for small businesses. What a scumbag!
February 22, 2009 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK, we'll declare all the unemployed small businesses and rename unemployment compensation "venture capital".
February 22, 2009 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bill,
Partner I just don't know how to make you happy. Are you FOR ANYTHING other that tax cuts for businesses and screwing the PERSON?
Once upon a time IBM put together a computer called "Big Blue" are you it? Because I have never seen you show any kind compassion or heart for your fellow human being. What is wrong with helping thy neighbor after we have given close to $3 TRILLION dollars to businesses in the last 6 months? (I count the Federal Reserve's $2T they are hiding from "U.S.")
It just seems that you could not give a shit, about starving people or people that have lost their home after losing a job or a loved one dying, or just getting sick.
I'm being serious what actually touches your heart? What makes you misty?
Who do you think deserves to be helped during this economic crisis after "WE THE PEOPLE" bail out all the failed businesses?
February 22, 2009 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bill just thinks that continuing the Bush policies of tax cuts for the wealthy is bound to work if we give it a little more time. Eight years just isn't enough, even though we have been in a downward spiral ever since W's shadow passed the threshold of the Oval Office. Don't worry about the poor; ignore them long enough and they will just die off.
Let's see...continuing the same behavior and expecting a different outcome is the definition of...what?
February 22, 2009 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
8 years? I was under the impression that it has been going on continually, in varying degrees, for close to 30 years...since Reagan and his 'tinkle down' economics.
February 23, 2009 1:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think we know what gets him all misty....the almighty dollar, right in his pocket, never spent to help anybody else.
February 23, 2009 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
No. You have it wrong. I think we need a mix of spending and tax cuts. But Jindal and others that oppose the bill have a defensible position. There's too much pork in the bill that doesn't do anything in the short term to create jobs.
I am for cutting spending. And I am for creating jobs that are long lasting.
I am NOT for all the pork in the stimulus bill that won't create any jobs and isn't temporary spending. It's just an agenda by Pelosi to get spending on her pet projects
And I do not want to bail out people that took out mortgages they can't afford. I lost my job last year and I found a new one without any help from Uncle Sam.
All the bleeding liberals on here don't care about how we finance this deficit, it's just spend, spend, spend
February 22, 2009 7:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the Iraq war was what? At 12 Bil a month.
Again when do you think a person should get some help?
February 22, 2009 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Iraq really doesn't have anything to do with this. But you can live in a fantasy world if you'd like. Unfortunately that is money that's been spent and we now have to live in the present.
What do you define as "help"? Before this stimulus we already had unemployment benefits. And we already had welfare. What do you define as "help"?
February 22, 2009 9:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
The same kind of help we gave Big Business the
$3T kind of help. The kind of help those that got the $3T were supposed to provide.
Mortgage Relief
Health Care WITHOUT the Insurance LEECHES!
A Living wage not a MINIMUM wage.
I could go on and on and on.
All I ask is the same EQUAL treatment for real people that Big Business got.
February 23, 2009 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder how he determines who is deserving. Sounds like the typical republican attitude..."I got another job all by myself and I didn't need a handout"....meaning, of course, that those who DO need help are inherently unworthy in the first place. Too ignorant to analyze the mortgage broker's sales pitch. Too lazy to network for another job.
February 23, 2009 11:29 AM | Reply | Permalink