La. Gov. Bobby Jindal is up for tonight as post-mortem Republican commentator after Big O. He’s a hot item and has some quite good things to say.
“We want the president to succeed,” he [told fellow governors yesterday]. “But let’s be clear we have a completely different philosophy about the best way to succeed.”
He poked some holes in the gigantic stimulus bill just passed by Congress and said it was clearly filled with attempts to create “temporary two-year work programs rather than real jobs.”
Recalling the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” pork-barrel earmark in Alaska, Mr. Jindal called the president’s major initiative “a stimulus package to nowhere.”
“If you want to build a road to connect an industrial site with its market, fine. But don’t just build it to build it,” he [said].
This from John Fund in WSJ.com’s Political Diary today.
Blithe Spirit 
Classic example of politics being the most important issue to a few people. Jindal is not talking about the economy for the sake of finding an answer to the problem; he’s talking about the economy for his own political posturing, even this far out from 2012. It’s clear he would sacrifice American households just for the chance to quote the late and wonderful governor of Texas, Ann Richards: I told you so! Only when she said it, she was funny.
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