Why Exactly Did REPUBLICAN Bobby Jindal Invoke Katrina?

[Median Democrat]

The mention of Katrina does not exactly make me want to elect Republicans to the federal government. I almost said WTF out loud among not so polite company.

Is his point that Republicans screwed up so royally when they held all three branches of government that we should trust what they have to say about government? I am still scratching my head.

[Clio the Leo]

1. Because when you over-tax poor small business owners...

.... God punishes you with a hurricane.

DUH!!!!

[eleny]

2. Defining "epic fail" for us

[mtnester]

19. Yep

[harry_pothead]

3. Heck of a Job Jindie

[babylonsister]

4. Because he and the rethug party has no flippin' clue. nt

[BuyingThyme]

5. Sympathy? Stoking the underdog factor?

[Median Democrat]

7. Rachel Maddow Nailed It: It Was As If He Was Arguing...

...since the government's response to Katrina was so lame, government is lame, thus we really can't trust government. Yup, so why exactly Mr. Jindal, should we trust you, since you just discredited yourself as a member of, well, government?

[SeattleGirl]

10. And later, Tweety commented on that, and talked about how the

Repigs are always talking government down, saying it's bad, ineffective, etc., and yet they trip over themselves trying to get elected to government.

[Adsos Letter]

6. Because they got nuthin'...nuthin' at all...not even a clue.

[elocs]

8. The most stupid, dumb ass thing for any Republican to do is to willingly bring up Katrina,

yet, there he went. On Charlie Rose tonight David Brooks called Jindal's response to Obama the worst Republican response to a Democratic speech in the history of Democratic speeches. You should have seen on the show when the first brought up Jindal's speech everyone there was laughing.

[Median Democrat]

12. The Only Way For A Republican To Bring Up Katrina Credibly Is To Say...

Yeah, we fucked up.

[Tom Kitten]

9. I really don't know

maybe we all just watched a movie or had a bad dream without knowing it..Kinda like watching a Republican fireman pissing gasoline over his own party...

[SeattleGirl]

11. I had a nagging feeling in the back of my mind that it was their

attempted intro at blaming the disaster that Katrina wrought on the Dems.

You know they just love to blame the Dems for what they themselves are guilty of.

[CitizenPatriot]

13. he also invoked a race-profiling lawman

so their "brown man" (god they are so lame-- everything is about parts, color, etc-- externals) quoted a bigot tonight.

these are sad days for the GOP.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0209/Jindal_praises_raceprofiling_lawman.html

"In his response to Barack Obama tonight, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal spoke glowingly of the late Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee.

It was a curious, even provocative choice: Lee, a colorful 300-lb. Chinese-American lawman was repeatedly accused of racially profiling blacks in the predominantly white parish he dominated prior to his death in Oct. 2007.....

In the wake of Katrina, Lee grabbed national headlines by suggesting his deputies could randomly stop blacks to combat a rise in drug crimes caused by the displacement of low-income New Orleans residents.

He later abandoned the idea -- but never apologized."

[NYC_SKP]

14. Katrina:Jindal = 911:Guliani

In his pea brain.

And he was competing with Obama's life story, most pathetically.


"...As I grew up, my mom and dad taught me the values that attracted them to this country - and they instilled in me an immigrant's wonder at the greatness of America. As a child, I remember going to the grocery store with my dad. Growing up in India, he had seen extreme poverty. And as we walked through the aisles, looking at the endless variety on the shelves, he would tell me: 'Bobby, Americans can do anything.' I still believe that to this day. Americans can do anything. When we pull together, there is no challenge we cannot overcome...."

:puke:

.

[PBS Poll-435]

16. Have you taken the LSATs?

A perfect analogy!

:pals:

[NYC_SKP]

17. Awww shucks!

No, but I took the Miller Analogies Test for grad school and got a fuckin' 88/100.

Crazy, MENSA threshold score is 66.

I'm living proof that intelligence does not equal income. :silly:

:pals:

[busybl]

15. because their handling of it was such a roaring success.

oh wait...

[Are_grits_groceries]

18. If I was a Rethug,

Katrina would be the last thing I ever mentioned in a speech no matter what the reason.
It would be "She who must not be named."

[bklyncowgirl]

20. That was a trip into Bizzaro World--they really do think Americans are stupid.

OK a Republican President appoints a guy who's former employer was the Arabian Horse Association to head FEMA, ignores warnings that the levies could fail and this could be a huge disaster, totally screws up the relief efforts when the levies do collapse and the lesson that Governor Jindal takes away is "Government is bad."

No Governor. Well run government by people who believe in what they're doing is necessary for civilized society. Government by right wing ideologues who are convinced that government is bad, bad, bad--so bad in fact that it doesn't make a damn bit of difference whether the Federal Emergency Management Administration is run by a competent professional or a political crony--is bad.

Does Jindal really think that the American people have forgotten who screwed up Hurricane Katrina?