Friday, December 17, 2010

Should have spent that money on Volcano monitoring

In early 2009 the alleged newest star in the Republican firmament Bobby Jindal was given the chance to reply to a speech by President Obama. To say he crashed and burned would be a disservice to fiery wrecks. Poor Jindal picked a very poor time to go through puberty. But one part his speech stands out:
Instead of trusting us to make wise decisions with our own money, they passed the largest government spending bill in history - ... $140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring.’ Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, DC.

Flash-forward more than a year and Bobby Jindal is going to show all those big spending Washington a-holes how a state-based Republican does it. There's a massive oil spill and Bobby says spend $200 million on sand dunes to protect the shoreline, even though most said "that's a bad idea."

Result?
The big set of sand barriers erected by Louisiana's governor to protect the coastline at the height of the Gulf oil spill is being criticized by a presidential commission as a colossal, $200 million waste of money so far.

But Bobby is not deterred:
...despite the commission's scathing report, he plans to move ahead with the project

[This poster admits he is pretending that this is not EXACTLY the same pattern present in yesterday's Afghanistan report]

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

4 comments:

Raoul Paste said...

Just another continuation of a Bush-era policy- NEVER admit you are wrong.

Feh.

Michael said...

Pravda-on-the-Hudson also reported the story. Of course, it was buried in the Science section, where few people will actually read it.

Jindal's going ahead with the project because it funnels boat loads of cash to the Shaw Group. They're a local conglomerate that I guess is a big deal down here -- occasionally they barely make it on either the Forbes or Fortune 500 list.

Republiclown stimulus -- give the money to the rich folks.

jimmiraybob said...

Stand back, I speak Teapublican....

Matthew 7:24-27 (New International Version, ©2010)

The Wise and Foolish Builders

24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

Translation into southern Teabaggian: "Sand not good. Sand wash away. Man use sand to stop water are stupid. Word of God say no do."

(bet you didn't see scripture coming - who could have predicted?)

pansypoo said...

but butbut he BELIEVED in it. that is facts enough.