Bobby Jindal - Sad, Lame Response To Obama's Speech

If you look up "lame" in Wikipedia, I suspect there is a photo of Bobby Jindal. His GOP response to the Obama speech was about as amateurish and tired a piece of rhetoric as I have ever heard - and I've heard a lot of them!

It was a tired rehash of the "government can't do anything" that has been the Republican mantra for years. The problem is, back when the GOP was running the government, they tried to prove that point. The government is actually pretty good at a lot of things and unfortunately those are precisely what Bobby targeted.

A state that was devastated by a natural disaster would seem to be a state where people understood the value of things like monitoring nature. Without the Hurricane Prediction Center, Louisiana would have been even worse off with Katrina. That's why scoffing at spending money to monitor volcanoes seems silly. Of course we need to monitor them, and considering that there are several large US cities like Seattle and Portland who live in the shadow of very large volcanoes we absolutely should spend $140 million to monitor them!

He also tried to characterize $8 billion for high speed rail as an earmark. For who? Anyone who needs to travel? High Speed Rail had been far too long in coming to our country and $8 billion will only be a start for the actual cost. Here in my home town, our light-rail system cost almost $1 billion and it's just for the DFW Metroplex. That is not an earmark, it's a necessity!

Even conservatives thought it was lame. Juan Williams, conservative columnist said this.

"It came off as amateurish, and even the tempo in which he spoke was sing-songy. He was telling stories that seemed very simplistic and almost childish."

If Jindal is the great GOP hope for 2012, they are really out of ideas.