Last night in the Republican response to the President's first speech to the joint Senate and House, Governor Bobby Jindal got his chance to crawl forward to the national level of leadership in the Republican Party. Rest assured Gov. Palin you have not been successfully challenged.
Let us take just one paragraph from the Jindal diatribe of ignorance. Just one paragraph annotated with facts.
"But Democratic leaders in Congress -- they rejected this approach. Instead of trusting us to make wise decisions with our own money, they passed the largest government spending bill in history, with a price tag of more than $1 trillion with interest. While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a "magnetic levitation" line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called "volcano monitoring." Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."
The bad things:
1."...includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government,..."
So why is it bad to stimulate the failing auto makers by buying their cars rather than giving them money? And these are touted to be "GREEN" cars, probably to run on Natural Gas that Boone Pickens recommends, thus they would help the cost of the auto makers to retool to sell such cars.
This is "LARD"?
See: http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-05-08-natural-gas-usat_N.htm
2."$8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a "magnetic levitation" line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, "
Wow, talk about bullshit by the bucket. First there is no maglev (magnetic levitation) money in the bill. It is money for high speed railroads. Not only does maglev not run on rails it is not a viable technology for the 500 mile test railroad that they want to build. Secondly there are 12 high speed rail corridors developed and under consideration for the project. Los Angeles to Las Vegas is only one of them. Oh yes and Disneyland in not in Los Angeles it is down in Orange County at Anaheim. My bet would be on the Boston to Washington corridor to be selected.
3. "... $140 million for something called "volcano monitoring." Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."
Dear God what a narrow minded ignorant dumb ass. That's like saying we waist or money on flood control studies. Not only have we had a volcano erupt in Alaska within this year and threaten international air traffic, does Bobby not remember Mt. Saint Helens? Does Bobby not know that 3 million Americans live under threat of a volcano eruption from Mt. Rainier in the Seattle/Tacoma area alone? Bobby want to be President of the U.S.A.. Does he want to be the President to let 200,000 tourist die because there was no warning that the Yellowstone volcanic cauldron was going to erupt?
Ignorant, just plain ignorant, just a talking point dumb ass. After this he will be lucky to be able to show his face even in Louisiana.
Sarah darling your leadership position is intact.
3 comments:
Even from a right-wing perspective - if they had been fairly confident of the eruption on Mount St. Helens early enough, they could have let logging companies clearcut many square miles of timber instead of letting it be turned into ash and charcoal.
It pains me that the Republican party as sunk so far, partly because an intelligent opposition would keep Obama and Co. at the top of their game instead of allowing them to win by a mile simply by not being utterly brain-dead.
An opportunity for that fast-rising
star...JoeThePlumber...
What TStockmann said.
Post a Comment