Jindal: Obama's failure a 'gotcha game'

Didn't I hear that Jindal is mulling quiting politics to become a stewardess? It's hard for me to listen to a governor whose main worry is how many pieces of flair to wear on her uniform when planning the GOP response to Obama's stirring address.

Once again the Republicans are brutally honest: They want this country to fail. They want Americans to suffer. But then they get upset when criticized for that position. They are the ones demanding political correctness. They are the ones screaming, "How dare you criticize me! My desire to see America fail is not fair game for discussion.!"

Make no mistake Americans, the Republicans desperately wish that more of you become unemployed. They want more of you to lose your homes. They want more of you to lose your nest eggs. They want those already unemployed to suffer more. They are committed to blocking any and all aid to those suffering through this down turn. They will not settle fior anything less than misery for as many as possible. That is their goal. That is their vision.

How pathetic.

It is my belief that those who wish for our president and government to fail, be it President Obama and his administration, or any other, should be considered traitors to our democratic system. Wishing that the president who was elected by the people fail in his attempt to guide the nation is also whishing for the nation to fail. If that is not treason, I don't know what is.

I tell you, I'm pretty liberal, so certainly don't find myself often in GOP territory, but there are several policies of Obama's I want to fail. I want his budget dead. Way, way WAY too many deficit zeros in there. I think health care reform needs to be put off for a while. I want his plan to take over and run more failing companies dead and gone. I want ANY thought of, in the future, making vets pay for their own service-related injuries (yes, Obama wants to do this -- he's had to wirthdraw it, for now, after protest) dead, dead, dead.

So Mr. writer, you are completely missing the point. You can hope the economy turns around (which it will probably do on its own, per history) and still want Obama's plans to fail, because you dislike where his plans take our country.

Jindal criticized volcano monitoring. Sarah Palin supports it. I would bet a million dollars that Sarah would be against Hurricane monitoring and Jindal would be for it. Republicans live in a world of hypocrisy where their leaders can spend without a peep of resistance but the other party is evil and un-American. George Bush was the worst thing that happened to the US in generations. Republicans know it and have nothing but anti-Obama rhetoric to offer in response. G-night Bobby, your time will never come.

Can you imagine what the Goopers would be doing if the positions were reversed? They spent the last 8 years calling anyone who disagreed with them traitors. Heck, Man Coulter wrote a book about how everyone other than loyal Bushies were traitors. Now the actual anti-American traitors are revealed to be the Goopers themselves.

This really shouldn't surprise anyone. America was always supposed to be a land of fairness and justice, of equality and opportunity. The Goopers spend their time trying to pit us against each other so they can steal from us. They claim the teaching of Raynd as their own without realizing they themselves are the "looters" Raynd warned us of.

Bobby Jindal, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Joe the Plumber... this is all the republican party has to offer America at this point -- zealots, charlatans, and FAILURE. What a sad, wretched bunch of anti-American sentiment these fools dish out. It's no wonder the GOP can't get any traction. G.O.P. = Got Zero Plans.

Michael C. creates a straw man then shoots it down--bad logic. Mr. Obama has already faild our youngest brothers and sisters by pushing for the funding for pro-abortion groups like the racist Planned Parenthood, the Pathfinder Fund, the UNFPA; removing protections against the use of human embryos (clone & kill) then pushing for funding the mad scientists who wish to play God with them; trying to remove protections of those who wish not to participate in the human genocide of nearly 50 million abortions (murders-in-the-womb). The culture of death surrounding Mr. Obama has the same stench as that which surrounded the immplementors of Jewish death in the 1930's & 1940's, the butcher of Prague (Gen. Heydrich) or Heinrich Himmler.

Bobby is too smart for a narcissist con-artist like Obama- he saw him coming a mile away.
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Regarding the GOP's recent setbacks at the polls, Bobby Jindal has said:
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"People need to look at the history of Ronald Reagan when he lost his first attempt at the Presidency (in 1976). He didn’t go back and say, ‘Let’s water down the conservatism. Let’s dilute what we’re saying. He made it even stronger.... he made it EVEN sharper. There’s a lesson there for potential candidates" "We need to be principled in our conservatism. We need to be unabashed, unafraid. We won’t always be popular with editorial writers and a lot of the members of the national media... and that’s OK. At the end of the day, it’s more important that we stick to our principles."
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Of course, the Obamaphile media already have their long knives out for Governor Jindal... in a similar approach to the one used on Palin: paint him as a wack-job, an eccentric, and just too far-right for American voters. Outfits such as the Huffington Post are already trying to nip Jindal's ascension in the bud.
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But they are right about one thing; they DO have reason to fear the electoral appeal and success of Bobby Jindal. This accomplished conservative doer is the very antithesis to the Democrat's unaccomplished, liberal talker now in the White House.
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Jindal oozes competence, and is a gifted communicator, with a trademark rapid-fire delivery. And his resume is nothing short of astounding.
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His story as the son of Indian immigrants is truly a fulfillment of the American dream. Simply put, Jindal embodies a GOP ideal; America offers a chance to those who want it take it and run with it, rather than entitlement to those who simply have the "audacity" to come here and demand it.
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So go get 'em, Bobby... you're a good man, and perhaps someday a great one.
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http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2008/11/palinjindal-2012.html

Jindal is right about the way the hyper-sensitive Obama Administration is framing opposition to his policies. Implying that people want the country to fail if you don't support Obama's policies sounds a lot like what liberals complained of when they were being criticized for being unpatriotic for opposing the Iraq War. Incidentally, the Iraq War is no longer an issue. The war is still going and will indefinitely under Obama, despite his rhetoric. But liberals will bite their tongue. Evidently, liberals support (devotion?) for Obama is stronger than their opposition to the Iraq War.

Back to Jindal’s point. This is a democracy, where the majority rules and the minority usually just has to deal with it. I oppose many of Obama's policies and hope that members of Congress have the guts to stand up to him, particularly on his reckless budget plans to double the public debt. If the policies pass anyway, I'll just have to live with it and hope for the best. Anyone who thinks that is unpatriotic, or try to spin it as so, is an absolute fool.

The only thing he's right about is that speech and Gitmo. I'd confess to highway robbery before I'd listen to that nonsense again.

Nothing but more of the same old rhetoric from the GOP. If they're so against Obama's policies, let's hear some real ideas from them. It's easy to criticize, but not so easy to offer alternative solutions. Don't they realize they're doing the same thing McCain did that cost him a lot of votes? They tell us everything that's wrong with Obama and the Dems, but don't tell us what's right about the GOP. Oh well, it's their business. Their political base keeps shrinking for lack of a coherent message.

Hmmm, is this the newspapers fair and balanced reporting of the republicans response to Obama's news conference and budget proposals?

Oh so fair. Sprinkled throughout with democrat words.

A bailout for newspapers, tax exempt status with no endorsments....no!

stripped to its core, what this comes down to is people's willingness to admit that they might be wrong on the proper way to handle a crisis. when republicans controlled the white house and had decided to pursue military action against iraq for the supposed wmds, i was completely opposed. the bush administration said it would make us safer; i disagreed. but i, and most other people against bush policies, was careful to say that i didn't want the military action to fail (i.e., more troop deaths). i wanted bush to be right; i wanted the nation to be safer. i just didn't think this was the best way to go about it. there is a fundamental difference in what republicans are so boldly stating now: they want the american people to suffer because they can't let go of their ideologies, and pride, enough to admit that they could be wrong. they'd rather see the country go down the tubes even further. this is why people are so disgusted by this faction of their party.

If the policies pass anyway, I'll just have to live with it and hope for the best. Anyone who thinks that is unpatriotic, or try to spin it as so, is an absolute fool.

Posted by: Herbie H. | March 25, 2009 12:09 PM

No Herbie that's not unpatriotic. However the position of Rush, Jindal, Fred Thompson and a host of other Republicans who have made it clear that they do not hope that things work out well if Obama's policies pass, and that they are actively rooting for those policies to fail if passed, is hardly the definition of patriotism. That's the difference friend. They won't hope for the best, they'll hope for the very worst, as they have repeartedly made clear.

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Posted by: Julia Bellaflores Blake | March 25, 2009 9:57 AM
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Of course you think that anyone who opposes Your Savior’s plans is a traitor! Only yes-persons like you who are incapable of independent thought are patriots! Then again, I am thoroughly convinced you haven’t got the faintest idea what freedom, democracy or the political discourse are or why they are important. Furthermore, while I don’t feel like spelling out to you what treason is or isn’t, I don’t think I should have to tell a so-called liberal like you that political dissent of the kind you deplore is NEVER treasonous. If you think that is treasonous, as you claim, then you truly don’t know what treason is. Go hence and sue the schools from which you received any diploma or degree. They defrauded you into believing you got an education.

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Posted by: Mel | March 25, 2009 6:23 PM
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I must disagree, Mel. If these people honestly believe a policy is bad for the country and that its failure will help the country or keep things from getting worse, then hoping for that failure isn’t unpatriotic in the slightest. A patriot is a person who is sometimes called upon to save his or her country from its government.

Posted by: John W. | March 25, 2009 7:52 PM

So, John, you actually want this nation to suffer economically if Obama's measures are past? You'd rather see a new Depression, than success under Obama? You'd rather see your children and grandchildren in a food line than to admit that you might possibly be wrong on a policy matter? Are you really that twisted? Are you really that bitter? Are you really so incapable of conceiving that you might be wrong that you would wish economic chaos on this nation if policies you disagree with are passed? That's the proposition I put foward, that any true patriot, any true lover of this nation, would hope, that when policies they don't agree with are passed, from either party, that any american, would hope against their own better judgement that they are wrong, and that the nation will benefit and prosper. I disagreed whole heartedly against many Bush policies, but once enacted, I truly hoped in my heart that I was wrong, and that the nation would not suffer as a result. Are you incapable of that hope? Are you so embittered that you cannot reach beyond your own preconceptions, and hope for a better tomorrow for every american, even if that means you were wrong?

If you cannot, then I must say that you are no Patriot. You are a partisan. You have become Republican, and not an American.

Put your obvious deep and blinding anger aside. Put you disdain for Obama aside, Put you bitterness at liberals aside, put your ego aside, and come back. It's not too late.

Think about your rhetoric John. Think about what it trully means. I don't think what you say is what you desire. I hope it isn't. I pity what will become of you if it is.

A patriot is a person who is sometimes called upon to save his or her country from its government.

Posted by: John W. | March 25, 2009 7:52 PM

Gosh...I only wish you had the guts to say that to those who claimed we were unpatriotic to oppose the war. I didn't hear that from you once.

"So, John, you actually want this nation to suffer economically if Obama's measures are past?"
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Posted by: Mel | March 25, 2009 10:40 PM
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No. That's not what I wrote. Re-read my post. You blew a valve needlessly.
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In fact, I don't believe the "Obama Plan" will work or that it is good for the country. I think it is largely an ill-conceived effort just for the sake of doing something, and that it will harm us eventually. I think I am on firm ground in this, given that every country to try such massive infusions of capital to fix an economic recession have ended up making their recession/depression last even longer. I’m not hoping for either the government or America to fail. To the contrary, I think we are headed for failure BECAUSE OF the Obama plan. Thus, because I deeply desire for our country to succeed, I consider opposition to Obama’s plan to be prudent, patriotic and good for the country.
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Furthermore, I don’t think all of the Republicans vilified in the article want us to suffer economically just to pursue their political agendum. Jindal, for instance, doesn’t believe that Obama’s plan will work either. Thus, for him, it is not a matter of making Americans suffer to pursue politics. It is a matter of seeing that our government doesn’t continue with its current folly.

“Gosh...I only wish you had the guts to say that to those who claimed we were unpatriotic to oppose the war. I didn't hear that from you once.”
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Posted by: bill r. | March 26, 2009 11:23 AM
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I don’t think that’s either true or fair, bill. I, too, have been critical of the war. I have lost count of how many times I called the Invasion of Iraq “a foolish maneuver” here on the Swamp. If I could say so in good conscience and for patriotic purposes, then it certainly means I believe others who say the same think aren’t unpatriotic. The reason I may not have been insulted or attacked for my position is that I’m not a Democrat. Such is the state of partisan politics.