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Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana addresses activists from America's political right at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday.
WASHINGTON – Speaking before an audience of Republican activists Saturday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal blasted the Obama administration over its response to the 2010 BP oil spill in the gulf, saying Obama officials “wasted precious time while that oil was coming in to our coast.”
The remarks came at the conclusion of his speech at CPAC, the annual gathering of Republican activists held here in Washington.
“They wasted precious time while that oil was coming in to our coast,” Jindal said. “They refused to listen to the people who lived along the coast that knew better than all the experts.”
Jindal – whose state was hit hardest by the spill – was a central figure in the recovery effort. His criticism, first expressed in his book, "Leadership and Crisis," represents a stinging rebuke of a Democratic administration with which he was partnered throughout the recovery effort.
“You’ve had a lot of speakers come up here and talk to you about the importance of this year’s election,” Jindal said, before adding that he wanted to offer “one more reason” why the election is important.
“What I saw and what I heard were people that were maybe very, very book smart, but had never run anything in the private sector,” Jindal continued.
“During our regular meetings and calls, the president would talk regularly about his “Nobel Prize-winning energy secretary.’ I’d begin to think that was part of his title,” Jindal said, refering to Energy Secretary Steven Chu. “I didn’t understand what that had to do with stopping the oil from coming to our coast.”
(Chu won a Nobel Prize in 1997, for physics; Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.)
Jindal’s attack represents another expression of a complaint about an elite or out-of-touch White House that has marked many of the CPAC speeches throughout the three days here.
Much of Jindal’s speech prior to the remarks concerned privatizing and reforming public education in Louisiana, an effort which he said would involve expanding charter schools and scholarships, and cracking down on underperforming teachers.
“For the ineffective teachers that refuse to get better, maybe they should look into another profession. Maybe they don’t belong in the classroom anyway,” Jindal said.
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Hey wait! Aren't these the same guys that apologized to BP because the President was being too hard them for taking cheap short cuts and creating an environmental disaster!
With a tearful, breaking voice as I recall.
Let's roll the video: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/06/17/lawmaker-apologizes-to-bp-for-white-house-shakedown/
Damn if this stuff doesn't last forever. Tell 'em Joe!
There is also tape on every current position being supported by repugs until THIS president supported them. Then it's eff U!
Piyush (Jindal) doesn't care about Louisiana, he has an agenda.. it's to pad the numbers and stats for a future Presidential bid. The state is in a decline - all the residents have to look forward to is new concrete roads that direct them straight to the newest McDonalds, left of the Burger King, across from Taco Bell and IHOP.
Oh, shut up -- you pathetic wannabe!
Mr. Jindal is still trying to recover from his lousy speech after President Obama's state of the union 2 (I think) years ago.
when i read some of these posts from the obama side I can't help to laugh obamas solution to fixing the economy once he got elected is like putting out a fire with gasoline. and all his supports agreeing that will work. don't bother reading the constitution just make your decision despite what the taxes payers want. and 3 years later just keepng blaming the last boss
ask your self who would you trust building you a New home a contractor with a high school education who built 100 homes who is a millionaire or a
Harvard Graduate with a construction engineering degree you never built a home in his life that's a millionaire ??
actually, the CBO's nonpartisan estimate of obama's actions (stimulus) is that it lowered unemployment by a significant amount.
so I guess he was fixing the economy with water, not gasoline. Try to pay attention. :)
"The economy would have been in much worse shape without the 2009 stimulus — which increased employment in the third quarter of this year by as many as 3.3 million full-time jobs, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office."
as far as you "analogy" about home building..lol. utter nonsense.
try again?
You're off Topic.
This is about who's responsible for the British Petroleum Gulf Oil Spill...
yep typical response
What I saw and what I heard were people that were maybe very, very book smart, but had never run anything in the private sector
Obama moved a lot faster then George W. Bush did with the hurricanes. Who did a fly over? That would be George W. Bush. Who took weeks to go the hurricane sites? That would be George W. Bush. Who screwed up the Federal response? That would be George W. Bush and his team of dorks.
By the Way Bobby Jindal, we like to see your birth Certificate long form.
"You're doin' a heck-of-a-job, Brownie."
I'm independant
Obama is doing a horrible job...he'll not get my vote
Talk about a desperate plea. Since when did Conservatives ever give a rat's a$$ about conservation?
Jindal should should direct his anger at BP and Halliburton, the two stooges who built and maintained that well. The President, regardless which party he is from, does not run oil production in the Gulf. Jindal should also include his fellow Republicans in the House and Senate who are and still eager for deep water oil production in the Gulf, regardless of the risks!
As usual the Republicans want to rewrite history, we had Gop members apologizing, to the oil co's for the President. We are so sorry Mr multi Billionaire Co, please don't pull your pay off money from our party!!! A single tear rolls down, the next spill is on us! Jindoll your a embarrassment, to Louisiana!
Republicans look desperate.
Couldn’t not get Obams on the economy, its improving, now this dork
Improving really more people rely on government hand outs now more than ever
it's just amazing how the democrats spin a tweak of a good numbers into a Gigantic improvement. I would hope a guy with a harvard education after 3 years in office could finally start making a improvement oh ya Convenient improvement report right around re election time all of sudden a handful creative programs being thrown at the wall i feel like I'm being massaged into believe he's the greatest quarterback in the world in the last 2 minutes of a loosing game
As a Vermonter I was very impressed with government response to our recent floods. Still am as it will be an ongoing recovery that will take years. I was also impressed with oil spill remediation in Louisiana which will take years as well. No administration is perfect but it seems to me that Jindal is playing politics where our Governor is overseeing a slow and steady cure to those affected here.
I agree, if for no other reason than I like to see someone else from the state posting here.
isn't he a member of the party that is trying to push through the Keystone Pipeline....I guess we can just destroy the earth instead of looking for alternative fuel.
Look all you want. There isn't one.
TY VTguy. TG lotsa people here own backhoes {me included}. Seems as if Jindal is not thankful for all the help his state received. Wouldn't happen here as we would fix things with or without outside help. We just finished our last cleanup project last Thursday. 5 excavators, three dump trucks and various other equipment and many 90 hour weeks. Need a break as round 2 will be coming after mud season.
Jindal, like so many other Republican politicians (yes, even more, much more than Democratic politicians) think that if they keep the lies going on long enough that everyone will believe the lies. Why were they so against President Obama going after BP? They bitched about the length of time it took to get the Gulf spill under control; what are they going to do to stop the spills that will occur in the Arctic when those spills happen? I absolutely disagree with opening up that area due to the fact that the spills up there won't be able to be contained. President Obama gave the go ahead, to please the Republicans who want the oil companies to have everything they want, and the same people will blame him when those spills occur. What crap.
I really hate to say this, but will anyway. The GOP/baggers have from the get go said they wanted Obama to fail. Yes baggers, that is also recorded FACTS. I would like to know why, from the intentional screw up of giving the oath of office to Obama by the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court, and before Obama had time to do anything, the queer Lush Limpdick was yelling to his minions that Obama had to fail.
Is it because of his skin color? They never got that exicited when Clinton was first elected, nor did the oath of office get screwed up. And everytime something happens, it's either Obama's fault, or Bush set something it motion, therefore Bush get's the credit.
Well Baggers, let's be honest here, this economic mess started with Reagan, and has continued with every President until Obama. The bubble broke under GW's term, that also is a FACT.
More and more people thought they were doing the correct thing in the 2010 elections. Look at the mess we have in the House right now. How many of those baggers ran on a job platform? What is the first thing they did, sign Grover's oath, then took their oath of office.
Then how many abortion bills were passed? Then a budget bill was passed, that had none, zero, nada $ signs in it. Then they took turns reading the Constitution, which they immediately ignored.
And in between that and continuing up to now, it's always Obama's fault. He's a Marxist, Socialist, Muslim, etc. Well, which one is he? Marxists are not Socialists, and Socialists aren't Muslim, and Muslim's aren't Marxist or Socialist. So which one is HE?
The die hard GOP and baggers just don't want to, or can't understand that a whole bunch of people have realized what the GOP/baggers have done to this country. Right now your stupid WAR ON WOMEN has caused you people many more votes than you realize. Same as the CLASS WARFARE manure you love spouting.
People are waking up, and they are watching and saving all those tapes and sayings that the present circle jerk of idots are spouting. And here comes another idiot, Jingle Jangles, crying about the oil spill.
Do you baggers think for one minute, when the race for the oval office really gets going, people won't remember this manure you spout daily? If you do, you really really are low informed. Hard to believe a man's skin color really sets them off.
Isn't this the same Bobby Jindal who didn't want federal involvement in the oil spill?
I see ads on TV saying how well the gulf has recovered and they want people to come and visit Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and LOUISIANA.
Our dependance on oil is the root of this problem and I believe that the Obama Administration did well and reacted as swiftly as possible. Unlike the Bush Administration with Hurricane Katrina.
Cry me a river Joe Barton!
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/06/17/lawmaker-apologizes-to-bp-for-white-house-shakedown/
Follow the money!
Good post Brian! Thank you for the reminder!
Barton was a jerk way back then, when his party already began their ill conceived plan to try to make President Obama a one term president!
What bums!
I noticed Jindal wasn't complaining when aid was supplied immediately to the coastal disaster area. Can't say help arrived immediately after Hurricane Katrina.
Another Republico Jindal Clown!
Go get em Mr. Jendal!
Anyone tell Jindle that in this country when one has an emergency they don't wait around for help, they start taking care of themselves!!!!!!!!!!
WOW, the Demodrones are in high gear today. Vermontguy, You and Feisty have to be the biggest of the drones. Almost forgot Toasty, sorry.
riverman...I'm NOT a democrat, and not a demodrone...And not a Repucklican!!!!!
What a stupid thing to assume that people who support the president are democrates!
It's like assuming all those that oppose him are racists!
riverman, I am a independent, who like more people than you can realize, know what is going on, and are calling you baggers on everything you lie about. A lot of us read Karl Rove's book, and are using it.
And it seems like you and others can't handle that. Well, all I can say is get used to it, you will be seeing more of it before the election. Can you remember the first lie that Jingle spouted? Bet not, he has spouted so many, hard to keep track of, isn't it?
But if you want to stay as a low informed person, and are happy with that, it's your right to do so. I just feel sorry, and sad for you for not wanting to improve yourself and your lifestyle.
Independant...ha, ha, .....truth team is on to you..LMAO
oh ya they are out ever since their guy got his hand slapped the other day for stomping on the freedom of religion they have to throw more junk at the wall
plstop...so even when the president alters something to improve things, he is wrong...you people are pathetic.
how is taking a portion of religious freedom away a improvement
typical response thou
pistop, why do you think he did that? It wouldn't be because the baggers declared WAR ON WOMEN, and their reproductive rights? Naw, I realize you don't know about that, right?
You do know that birth control pills will stop abortions, right? And you baggers are against abortion, you have made than very plain, very loudly plain. Now you are against women having birth control pills, but it's OK for men to have their Vigra pills covered by insurance, right?
And what insult will you be throwing at me, perhaps a "man hater?" I've heard that before from you baggers. No, I am not a man hater, I love men, real men, who are intellegent, respectful, and HONEST. From your comments you don't fit the 3 required things I like about real men.
And since you have a low attention span, this is about the oil spill. But keep trying, you might get it correct.
I think Jindahl is doing everything possible to keep the oil spill clean-up as far from himself as possible. The fact remains, there ws an oil spill, a horrific event that Haliburton and BP spent more time deying thier blame than they did in getting thier asses there and doing whatever it took to stop it.
SOme people just don't want to hear the facts!
BP's response to the oil spill.
http://vicmackey.trakt.tv/images/episodes/2052-7-3.jpg