“Jindall ruined any chances of winning the presidency anytime soon with that awful speech. Not only did he come across as slimy and condescending, he also showed America that he has no good answers for the problems we face. He used Hurricane Katrina, a symptom of failed Republican leadership at the Federal level, to argue that we should not rely on the Federal government to save us.”
Hey, liberal troll, nobody buys your nonsense. People like you keep insisting that the Republican Party has to ‘go mainstream’, failing to understand why we have two political parties in the first place: because of two vastly different, competing ideas of how to solve problems that face this country.
All around me liberals are laughing and saying “where’s the Republican alternative” when there are Republican alternatives suggested every day. They even occasionally make the headlines, but always in the form of “Obama ignores Republican alternatives” or “Democrats reject Republican addenda and changes” or “Democrats seek to freeze out Republican opposition”. Boehner has offered alternatives. Jindal has offered alternatives. Gingrich has offered alternatives. There was even a Republican council created to pitch a completely alternate approach to saving the economy – one that has actually been proven to work – and it was simply ignored by both the Messiah and the media that is in his thrall.
And as for Katrina: I’m from Louisiana. Louisiana takes 100% of the blame for that fiasco. You do realize that Katrina didn’t even hit New Orleans, right? New Orleans flooded because the levees failed. They were warned for YEARS that those levees would not sustain flood waters from a Cat5 hurricane. They were told WEEKS in advance of Katrina’s approach. Yet the local (Democrat-run) government did NOTHING to get the people out. Yet somehow they were able to make this a federal government failure (BDS anyone?) as if it’s the responsibility of the federal government to personally truck out each person who refuses to get out themselves.
Mississippi was actually hit by Katrina. Mississippi received LESS federal attention than New Orleans. And Mississippi came through relatively well.
