Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal urged his party in an interview Tuesday to shift to offering health care solutions instead of just rejecting what President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are proposing.
“I think now is the perfect time to pivot and to say, not only here’s what we’re against, and not only here’s how we’re going to contrast ourselves, but here’s what we’re for,” Jindal said in an interview Tuesday with POLITICO.
Jindal acknowledged that the Republican Party for years had been too slow to stake out positions on the health care debate “to our peril and the nation’s peril.”
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27729.html#ixzz0SaYQdnSH And, reported last night....
President Obama to visit New Orleans in mid-October
President Barack Obama will visit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in mid-October to see first-hand the progress of the recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the White House announced today.
The news of the presidential visit came as Obama signed an executive order Tuesday extending the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Recovery and Rebuilding for six months, through April 1, 2010. .
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/09/president_obama_to_visit_new_o.html POTUS aids the Gulf Coast and also manages to get some support from across the proverbial aisle. And it's not even 8am.
Maybe he'll give poor Bobby some tips on public speaking while he's down there.