It seems that Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s response to President Obama’s speech received a universal thumbs down from the panel assembled at Fox News last night, which is fairly surprising to say the least. Over at PBS, New York Times columnist David Brooks described the speech as “possibly the worst response… in the history of democracy” and remarked that in a moment when the federal government is the “only show in town” to restore some stability to the economy, to just ignore all that and simply claim that government is the problem is an “insane” form of nihilism. It’s just not where the country is, it’s not where the future of the country is, he said.
Clueless, out-of-touch Bloggin’ Tories were, unsurprisingly, thoroughly impressed by Jindal’s calamitous speech.
Some republicans are saying that Jindal just killed his chances as GOP leader…..BT’s obviously don’t listen, read and live in never, never land. Sure doesn’t take much to please them does it?
Shouldn’t it be that if you want a new, young leader he/she should have some new ideas and vision?
Obama can be accused of being somewhat vague in his speech, but Jindal offered nothing in the way of “new ideas”… just the same old platitudes recycled from Goldwater and Reagan. Policies that have largely failed in a spectacular way.
Of course, these responses are always crap. But, this one was particularly awful.
I lost “interest” in Jindal’s response after about 5 minutes (I worked on the computer while he was talking).
Mind you, he did manage to highlight why the GOP failed miserably last election which should have provided comfort to those that voted Democrat. LOL
Somewhere, Stephan Dion feels a lot better.
Eghads, that speech was bad.
I look forward to a few years of the following,
“Despite Republican objections….
I listened to the Obama speach this morning on CPAC. I thought it was a good speach and wonder when our leader is going to stand up in parliment and give us
a comprehensive statement about our economy.
Maybe when he’s done with his “PR offensive” south of the border he’ll be good enough to honestly clue us in as to the state of things here in Canada. Unfortunately, even if he did (which I doubt he would), we’re only likely to get a pile of b.s.
I watched the Jindal rebuttal to get a measure of the man. I watched, willing to be suitably impresses.
Sorry to say, I was not impressed by Jindal speech in the least.
His constant repetition of “Americans can do anything” was an attempt to coin some phrase like “yes we can”, but it came off sounding like an episode of Romper Room or Sesame Street.
The other indication of this guy’s lack of political intelligence occurred when he attempted to demonstrate the virtues of the Republican philosophy of “big bureaucratic government is bad” by citing his experience with Hurricane Katrina….hello? How anyone could attempt to contrive a lesson from that utter government fiasco that speaks well for Republican’s philosophy of government. And this guy is the Governor of Louisiana?
Jindal-ie, you’re doing a great job!
A heckuva job, Bobby!
Referencing Katrina was puzzling to say the least.
I thought one of his little heart-warming tales was kind of funny. That it was “lucky for him” that his father (a new immigrant to the country) was able to work out an installment plan to pay the doctor for his delivery the several thousand dollars it was going to cost. I guess that’s just my Canadian perspective, but there seemed something quite wrong about that.
Hey, I learned that “Americans can do anything”…over and over and over again…
RT – I guess that’s just my Canadian perspective, but there seemed something quite wrong about that.
How so? In Wingnutistan, being born is a right that everyone is entitled to purchase.
You people are obsessed. Obama’s address to the joint session, the responses…
I couldn’t stand a minute of it. All that clapping and standing ovations and cheering…reminded me of the 25th Congress of Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
…Gawd!!