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A Creationist Litmus Test For Republican Nominees In 2012 ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 13th, 2009. Filed under Bobby Jindal, Evolution vs. ID, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Science, Tim Pawlenty

Secular Right looks at the evidence:
In any case, I’m on the record as saying that predictions for 2012 are very premature. But, it looks like 3 of the front-runners for the G.O.P. nomination are rather frank Creationists (Palin, Huckabee and Pawlenty). I’m skeptical about any of these as likely candidates (i.e., if you had to [...]

Louisiana Taxpayers Paying For Governor’s Helicopter Rides To Church

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009. Filed under Bobby Jindal, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Bobby Jindal has been charging his state’s taxpayers to ferry him to Church on Sundays:
On Father’s Day this year, Gov. Bobby Jindal settled into a state helicopter with two staff members and flew to church services in Springhill. A week later, state records show, he was in Dry Creek, again to attend church. The weekend [...]

Bobby Jindal On 60 Minutes

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 2nd, 2009. Filed under Bobby Jindal, Politics

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Bobby Jindal was profiled on last night’s 60 Minutes and comes across far better than he did in last week’s speech. Watch it, and I think you’ll see that, like him or not, this is a guy that will be around for awhile.
And that speech ? Forget about it, just like people [...]

Bobby And The Volcanoes

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 2nd, 2009. Filed under Bobby Jindal, Politics

It looks like Governor Jindal got the volcano monitoring story way, way wrong:
DCist: As I’m sure you’ve heard, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, in his response to President Barack Obama’s congressional address, singled out a $140 million appropriation for the U.S. Geological Survey as shall-we-say suspect spending. Can you tell me a bit about this appropriation?
Dr. [...]

Bobby Jindal And The False Katrina Story

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, March 1st, 2009. Filed under Bobby Jindal, Politics

During his speech on Tuesday night, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal related this story about a conversation he allegedly had with a Sheriff during Hurricane Katrina:

Well, it turns out that it wasn’t exactly true:
A spokeswoman for Bobby Jindal says the Louisiana governor didn’t imply that an anecdote about battling bureaucrats during Katrina directly involved the governor [...]

Bobby Jindal’s Hypocrisy

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, February 28th, 2009. Filed under Bobby Jindal, Dumbasses, Politics

Apparently the Louisiana Governor’s motto goes something like — pork for thee, but investment for me:
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s transportation department plans to request federal dollars for a New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger rail service from the same pot of railroad money in the president’s economic stimulus package that Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized as [...]

Palin, Huckabee, Romney Tied In 2012 Race

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, February 28th, 2009. Filed under 2012 Election, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Politics, Sarah Palin

A new CNN poll of Republican preferences for 2012 shows a statistical tie between the usual suspects:
WASHINGTON (CNN) – As the the first unofficial ballots are cast in the next race for the White House, a new national survey of Republicans indicates that the GOP doesn’t have a clear presidential frontrunner — but does have [...]

More On The Jindal Speech: It Wasn’t Just The Delivery

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, February 25th, 2009. Filed under Bobby Jindal, Politics, Republicans

There’s more out there this afternoon about Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s speech last night, which I wrote about earlier today, and the criticism isn’t just reserved for how Jindal came across as a speaker.
Jazz Shaw at The Moderate Voice, for example, says that Jindal’s speech was a microcosm of what’s still wrong with the GOP:
[S]uffered [...]

Bobby Jindal Strikes Out

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, February 25th, 2009. Filed under Bobby Jindal, Politics

Last night Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal who, notwithstanding his denials of interest, is still considered a contender for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination was given center stage to deliver the Republican response to the President’s address:
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) continued his sharp criticism of the stimulus signed into law last week, as the man [...]

Bobby Jindal’s Response To Obama’s Speech

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, February 25th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Bobby Jindal, Politics

In case you missed it like I did, here’s Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s response to Obama’s speech last night:

Reaction and round up to the same coming shortly.

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