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Where are we getting these guys in the Repub party. He's an out of touch mutant. What was that craziness about Katrina?

How could a supposedly"bright, upcoming Repug star" bring up the failures of Katrina??? Apparently, he did not read President Obama's speech prior to delivering a "response". He proved to be a dreadful speaker lacking in any new or creative ideas to move forward....

If he is the "brightest" star among upcoming Repubs, they are in more serious trouble than originally thought. His delivery like something from "Reading Rainbow". It was like he was reading a story to children. Any minute I expected him to say, "And then, the big bad wolf"... This guy wants to be President, no way!

I have never seen Bobby speak before. My very first thought when seeing him appear was of a cartoon. Then he started to speak. If this is the best the republicans have to offer, bring 'em on. What could possibly have possessed the good people of Louisiana to elect such a moron.

I missed the speech but, wow, if even Fox thought it was bad it must have been a major disaster. Youtube here I come...

Jindal has totally missed the point of why Katrina was so disastrous. It's not because we had too much government, it's because the government we had was unresponsive, unintelligent, underfunded, and grossly unprepared. We don't need less government, we just need competent government. During Katrina, only the military and the federal government had the resources to help the citizens of the Gulf Coast. No private company or group of citizens could have done the job because they were all under water.

Repubs are always stuck on the notion that government is bad. That's like an abusive parent saying parents are bad. Which doesn't mean that parents themselves are evil or unnecessary, it just means that you happen to be a bad parent. During Katrina, we didn't need FEMA to get out of our way, we needed someone better than a horse beauty contest judge calling the shots. We needed a better parent.

Gov. Jindal, if you want less government, start with ending the practice of telling me what I can't do, who I can't marry, what I can't smoke, and what technologies we can't develop. If you and your GOP cohorts think we can accomplish the goals of the stimulus for half the price, only accept half the money. But shut up while the rest of us reap the benefits of all the tax dollars we've put into the system.

Right.........if we were just a little more ideological, the unnecessary war, the tanking economy and the rampant corruption of our officials wouldn't be counted against us.

Looks like Jindal outlined his "plan" for the next 'Katrina':
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=6354

I was stunned by Jindal's poor performance, having seen him several times on talk shows. And the content of his speech was even worse than the delivery.

I agree with the other posters that bringing up Katrina was completely looney! On top of reminding people yet again that we can't trust anti-government Republicans to run government, and that we really need government in a crisis, Jindal and the sheriff he praised are both ..........GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS!! Nothing like going on TV and saying you can't trust people like us. Brilliant and bizarre!

Colbert said it best at Bush's press dinner: "I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least, and by that standard, this government is doing an outstanding job in New Orleans."

It never ceases to amaze me how Republicans are all anti-"big government" and anti-porkbarelling so long as they're the opposition. Once they're in charge, though, hold onto your hats, because you don't know from government spending until you've seen Republicans spend.

it was amateur night.

pathetic. tragic. painful to watch.

couple this with his fabrication of actually being there with lee, his misinformed slight, regarding magnetic rail and disneyland, talking to the public as if they are a nation of 10 year olds and the republican standard of "us v. them", and it is safe to say that, with due respect to bob dylan, the republicans are headed "90 miles an hour down a dead end street".

at least palin was entertaining.

Let's see... the new republican poster children are an Indian(Jindal), a black man(Steele) and a woman(Palin).

Do they really think we don't see the rich white guys behind the curtain?

These guys want raped women to endure pregnancy(no exceptions to abortion being illegal), more of the same give to the rich failed policies and less regulation.

Yeah that's worked so well.

The republicans are searching hard for an intellectual with vision to come up from the rear and represent the party. Jindal was put out front to see if he could cut the mustard. It was worth a try. After the failure of of the McCain/Palin ticket the party realizes it cannot base itself on the thought process of the Republican Right low information voter block and their previous oracle, Mr. Bush.

You lead the beast with Jindal???