Jindal is demanding more help from big gubmint?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.sunherald.com/2010/05/24/2205661/jindal-demands-accounting-for.html

Jindal demands accounting for oil spill

By JOSEPH GOODMAN - McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

GALLIANO, La. -- U.S. Cabinet officials charged with overseeing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill met with Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and other state and local officials today in southern Louisiana, less than 24 hours after Jindal demanded more help from the federal government to protect his state's delicate and complicated coastline. Solidarity between the federal government and Louisiana is being tested as heavy crude oil begins to lap upon beaches and damage wetlands. With Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano standing by his side, Jindal said during a press conference that "we need to make the federal government accountable."

Meanwhile, the messages of Napolitano and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar continued direct blame at BP. "We came to see what BP has done and not done," Napolitano said. "We continue to hold BP responsible as the responsible party, but we are on them watching them." Napolitano said that a government-run leak-estimate committee has been been created to determine how much oil has spilled into the Gulf. "We have formed an independent estimates group with the best scientists available within the federal government with peer reviews by others to estimate how much oil overall BP has now spilled," Napalitano said.

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I don't understand this? First he didn't want to accept Federal stimulus money to help his constituents last year. Now he wants federal money?

Must have been the wrong constituents who were going to get the stimulus funds he didn't want last year. If I was a governor I would want all the financial aid I could get for all my constituents. This guy seems picky about who should get it.

He says he wants to hold the federal government accountable but he never mentions holding his friends in the oil industry accountable. Why is that?

Don

[Joanne98]

1. Here's a picture to go with that.

[elocs]

2. Hypocritical though he may be, Jindal may just parlay this disaster into reviving

national political ambitions. His constituents will pay attention to him and not to Democrats, Liberals, or DUers, overlooking his hypocrisy.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Well we will just have to keep reminding them then

[SpiralHawk]

3. Typical republicon homelander

a hypocrite. Nothing new here.

[era veteran]

5. So Bobby, you like big government now?

Big oil have you in their pocket?

[Motown_Johnny]

6. Sorry Bob, we spent it all studying volcanoes

[rucky]

7. Politics aside...

Louisiana needs more help.