Jindal is busy turning down stimulus money for one of the poorest states in the nation and sucking the cock of the Republican party.
That came out a little bitter, huh.
Hee.
Was anyone here listening to the MSNBC coverage and hear someone say, "Oh, God," and the sound of laughter from the crew there? Maybe Matthews doing the uttering? We of course delight in the mocking, but MSNBC people!! Turn off the mics people, you should know this by now.
Anyway, in other not news, still just get all giddy listening to our president speak. Damn, he's good.
eta: ouch Bon. Soothing thoughts sent your way.
I have some kind of vicious abdominal cramp for the second day of the Bar exam. Do I win?!
Oy. That is not a contest you want to win. Good luck with the exam, though!
Good luck Bon!
So about 20-30 minutes ago one of my co-workers said she had to send a fax and she come back to show me what I needed to do to lead some training next week. I have no idea where she's gone.
I asked my minion to work on something that she spent most of yesterday on and still doesn't have much to show for it. It's definitely the kind of task that takes time to figure out how to do it, but now I feel bad that she's spent all this time, and now I'm going to have to do it myself because we're running out of time! Bah.
Jindal is busy turning down stimulus money for one of the poorest states in the nation
Yeah, but what the media really needs to be broadcasting LOUDLY is what percentage of the money he IS taking vs. claiming loudly to be turning it down, because most of the governors being all self-righteous about not taking the money are only not taking a fraction of it from what I've been reading.
Sorry for the asscaps, but watching the repubs making any claims to the high ground this soon after Shrub's reign makes me want to puke, preferably in said repubs face.
what the media really needs to be broadcasting LOUDLY is what percentage of the money he IS taking vs. claiming loudly to be turning it down
Naturally, the only reason I know about this side of the story is from TDS.
I just watched some video of Jindal's response and it's pretty cringe-worthy.
Looks like we're supposed to get 6-9 inches of snow tomorrow night. Freezing rain today. This means I really need to get to the grocery TODAY.
Bree Walker was the name of the woman with the hand deformity. [link]
I think this is a pretty good summary of Jindal's response.
"You know, I think Bobby Jindal is a very promising politician, and I oppose the stimulus because I thought it was poorly drafted. But to come up at this moment in history with a stale 'government is the problem,' 'we can't trust the federal government' -- it's just a disaster for the Republican Party. The country is in a panic right now. They may not like the way the Democrats have passed the stimulus bill, but that idea that we're just gonna -- that government is going to have no role, the federal government has no role in this, that -- in a moment when only the federal government is actually big enough to do stuff, to just ignore all that and just say 'government is the problem, corruption, earmarks, wasteful spending,' it's just a form of nihilism. It's just not where the country is, it's not where the future of the country is. There's an intra-Republican debate. Some people say the Republican Party lost its way because they got too moderate. Some people say they got too weird or too conservative. He thinks they got too moderate, and so he's making that case. I think it's insane, and I just think it's a disaster for the party."
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And that's from David Brooks.
Personally, I don't think anyone looks good in these response speeches regardless of party and this one didn't break the trend.
I thought Rachel Maddow's reaction to Jindal's response was priceless--Olbermann threw it over to her for her analysis, and she just sat there, dumbfounded, saying, "Uh, uh, well, to be blunt, I'm speechless. I cannot believe that he just stood there and used Katrina as an example of why government should stay out of people's lives!!"
