Friday, October 31, 2014

"BEEFED UP" BOBBY

I’m a congenital pessimist, so don’t give me too much credit for drawing attention to this pending debacle-cum-comic-relief. Instead, all praise should go to National Review’s Eliana Johnson, who reported Monday evening that a source “close to” Jindal was willing to confirm that the “slight” governor “has gained 13 pounds over the past few months” because he’s “looking to beef up” now that the 2016 campaign is “on the horizon.”
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To understand why the Jindal camp’s decision to share this little scooplet is so phenomenally bizarre and foreboding, rather than simply silly and weird, you need to keep in mind just how much of a disaster his tenure as Louisiana governor has been.
Finally a national publication focuses on the maladministration of Jindal, who governed, untrammeled by the Louisiana Legislature, according to Tea Party philosophy.  The legislature is complicit in every way, because they allowed Jindal to have his way in all his policies except the sales tax proposal.  Jindal's legacy in Louisiana will be the destruction of worthy institutions and programs due to budget cuts and privatizing and a budget nightmare that will be left to the next governor to untangle.

It is beyond laughable that Jindal thinks he will revive his campaign for president by gaining weight.  I have not once heard a Louisiana citizen criticize Jindal because he's not "beefed up" enough.  Keep in mind that though the people of Louisiana don't like him now, he was reelected to a second term by a landslide.

3 comments:

  1. Alas, yet another Louisiana triumph, which perhaps has not yet made the news:

    "Been to an Ebola-affected country? Stay away from tropical medicine meeting, Louisiana says

    "...Today, Louisiana state health officials asked anyone who has traveled to Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea in the past 21 days, or has treated Ebola patients elsewhere, to stay away from the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), which begins on Sunday in New Orleans..."

    http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/10/been-ebola-affected-country-stay-away-tropical-medicine-meeting-louisiana-says?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&utm_source=eloqua

    Yes, if you are an expert in tropical diseases and have been where Ebola is, this state doesn't need the likes of you hanging out here.

    I await news on whether any scientific groups decide that there's one more place where they will never convene again.

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  2. Hanging out at a gym with Paul P90X Ryan, buffing up because, you know, the ladies just can't help themselves around buff Republicans? Just another delusion, methinks ... but I beg of them all, pleeeeease, no photos of Chris Christie in sweats ...

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