Everything is politics with the Republicans.
If Jindal is expecting help from FEMA or the Corps he is going to have to wait a year, because it isn’t going to happen under the Shrubbery.
]]>I was affected by a similar accounting trick when I was teaching and out of the blue they put off payday for a week. Since most people had direct deposit there were checks bouncing all over the area, as people wrote them in anticipation of the money showing up before the checks arrived at their destinations. Then there was the strike of public workers that magically ended when the county covered its shortfall with the fines against those on strike.
And people wonder why I hate Republican politicians.
]]>The only reason he’s the #1 candidate for governor this year is because he’s the only “name” in the race. Everybody else who is a “name” was too close to Gov. Blanco and is not running because they’re waiting for the stain over Blanco’s name to fade with time and for folks to forget that they were associated with Blanco. Unfortunately, he also has learned how to cater to the bubbas by spouting Reagan/Bush nonsense, like he’s promising to eliminate the state charity hospital system (which he has no power to do, since it is written into the state constitution that all Louisianians have a right to health care via said system, to be provided on a sliding-scale basis according to income). Nevermind that the bubbas rely on the state charity hospital system too, the fact that darkies can use it free of charge just irritates their little pin brains. Jindal learned from his last election that if he was going to win, he’d have to out-nigger-bash the nigger bashers, and has run a race that might as well be right out of the KKK rulebook, to the point where the bubbas have pretty much forgotten that Jindal himself is, uhm, suspiciously dusky.
In short, he’s going to be a disaster to Louisiana. But then, Louisiana’s government has been nothing but a disaster for decades, so I’m not sure how different that is, sigh…
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