Tag: bobby jindal

RS Q&A: Gov. Bobby Jindal, on the Medicaid expansion.

I was on a conference call today with Governor Bobby Jindal and former Governor Tim Pawlenty; they are both currently on a bus tour of Pennsylvania and Ohio for the benefit of the Romney campaign.  We had an opportunity to ask questions; and, seeing as these two states are both Republican-controlled (due at least in part to the 2010 backlash against Obamacare), I asked Governor Jindal about whether he had some advice to the state governments about signing up for the proposed expansion of Medicaid, now that it would be voluntary on the states’ part.

Governor Jindal’s advice was, essentially: don’t. Audio below:

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To summarize the Governor’s response – and with the caveat that Jindal doesn’t actually want to tell other states what to do – Louisiana will not signing on to the Medicaid expansion, for three reasons:

  1. It will add a 3.7 billion expense over first ten years for Louisiana taxpayers alone.
  2. It will remove 100, 000 people from private insurance and putting them into Medicaid.
  3. It will not in fact even create jobs; it will just create a new entitlement program.

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#rsrh Louisiana unions’ gubernatorial recall petition has a target number of 56.

Background: unions in Louisiana – apparently untroubled by the fact that the Democratic party of that state decided to drink hemlock in the 2011 governor’s race – have launched a recall petition against Bobby Jindal!  Ooh, scary!  On the other hand, as the title notes the unions have a pretty achiveable target number to hit: 56.  That number would be one more than the (reported*) signatures on the last Jindal recall petition.

Via @DLoesch.  I understand that a lot of people are tired of this nonsense because of the way that the Democrats keep wasting taxpayer money in Wisconsin with these recalls, and rightfully so; but this is merely the unions wasting time that could have been spent in digging the Democrats out of their current bayou hole.  …Swamp?  Pond?  The metaphor doesn’t really work; sorry.

Moe Lane

Continue reading #rsrh Louisiana unions’ gubernatorial recall petition has a target number of 56.

#rsrh QotD, I’m Glad To Hear It Too, Timmy Edition.

Background: in the hope of reminding people of their existence, the Louisiana Democratic party  fake-endorsed Bobby Jindal for VP, in the hopes that this will get him out of Louisiana.  Lord knows that the Democrats haven’t been successful any other way – and, hey!  I guess that this means that the LA Democratic party is conceding that Obama will lose in November.

Anyway, Jindal advisor Timmy Teepell came up with the thought that immediately came to my mind:

I’m glad to hear there’s still a Democratic Party in Louisiana…

Continue reading #rsrh QotD, I’m Glad To Hear It Too, Timmy Edition.

Libtalker Randy Rhodes spews anti-Indian racism like so many teeth.

Woman’s not fond of Bobby Jindal and/or Nikki Haley, for some reason.

You know, I have a problem with the way that somebody ambushed Randi Rhodes and got her to make racist and prejudiced comments about the governors of Louisiana and South Carolina. It’s just… cruel to do that to an alcoholic on a bender; when you have somebody with an existing history of being found face down in the gutter with the recent contents of her stomach spread out around her in a semi-particulate spray, taking advantage of that by shoving a microphone in her face and asking her to spout off some good, old-fashioned racism is simply not very civi… wait, hold on. She talked this trash on the air?

“Bobby Jindal even converted from Hinduism — Nikki Haley, too — in order to be acceptable to the conservative South in Louisiana and uh — [about a five second pause] Georgia! I mean, that is crazy that in order to be acceptable to the party you have to, you know, pretend that you’ve given up your religion!”

While sober?

Well, then.

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Lousiana Senate Chess: Bill Cassidy hires Timmy Teepell. For 2014?

Tuesday, the news came out: Rep. Bill Cassidy (R, LA) has hired Timmy Teepell for his 2012 re-election campaign.  If you’re wondering why I’m telling you this, this is why: Cassidy is a two-term Congressman who won almost 2/3rds of the vote in the last election (and did not get hurt by this round of redistricting) and Teepell is the guy behind Bobby Jindal’s 2011 re-election… well, ‘campaign’ is not exactly the right word.  ‘Kinetic strike from orbit‘ would be a good deal more accurate.  In other words, Teepell is not exactly needed for Cassidy’s 2012 race.

One of my colleagues – somebody who is much more knowledgeable about Louisiana politics than I am – concludes from all of this that this means that Gov. Bobby Jindal will not be running for the 2014 Senate seat against embattled incumbent Mary Landrieu, and that Rep. Cassidy will.  Hard to argue with the logic; snapping up Teepell early and giving him a chance to get used to Cassidy’s existing campaign team in what should be a pretty easy election campaign sounds like a good idea.  And it’s certainly true that Landrieu’s Senate seat – one of the last remaining bastions of Democratic power in Louisiana – is a glittering prize.  But it does leave one question: if Bobby Jindal doesn’t want to go from Governor to Senator, then where does he want to go?

Because let’s not pretend: Bobby Jindal’s a good guy and a good governor, but he’s also a politician… which means that he’s ambitious.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

Reminder: primary deadline in Louisiana tomorrow.

We’re in day two of the three day qualifying period for the gubernatorial primary, you see.  Another reminder: the only person that the Democrats have had so far who is willing to stand up and publicly oppose Bobby Jindal is… Tara Hollis, schoolteacher.  She is not particularly expected to win – but there’s nobody else right now, and that situation is being repeated all the way down the ticket.

I want to make this clear: this is not a knock on Ms. Hollis, whose most egregious crime seems to be retaining the charmingly naive belief that the Democratic leadership actually cares overmuch about their oft-stated principles.  But it is a fairly comprehensive knock against the Democratic party of Louisiana, which has taken multiple body blows for the last half decade.  It’s curious to note: for all the verbiage written about how devastating the Katrina response supposedly was to the GOP (particularly Bush), I can’t help but notice that in the state where the devastation was strongest the most obvious change was that Louisiana went from a largely Democratic-run state to a largely Republican-run one.  It’s also curious that this hasn’t been reported on more.

Well, OK, so it’s not curious.  Thou Shalt Not Question The Media Narrative, and all that.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Bobby Jindal for Governor.  Better safe than sorry.

It’s July 14th. Where are the D candidates for LA-GOV?

Aside from Ms. Tara Hollis, of course – note that I’m not going to make fun of her for running.  I could, but there’s something endearing about meeting a Democrat who actually still believes that her party is really committed to democracy and egalitarianism and anything else besides the creation and perpetuation of a paternalistic nanny-state run by people who think that they’re too smart to work for a living.  Besides, Hollis will have that presumption beaten out of her soon enough by her fellow-Democrats; there’s no need for me to get involved even if I wanted to.

Anyway.  It’s the middle of July; the deadline for declaring is in less than two months; and there ain’t nobody else stepping up to the plate. What gives?

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Bobby Jindal for Governor, of course.  And he should come to the RedState Gathering, too.

The meaning of 55 in Louisiana gubernatorial politics.

55 has two major meanings, in fact:

If you look at the above Politico article from December, you might suspect that the Politico author might just be the slightest bit disappointed in the second bullet point… although it’s highly unlikely that the author’s name would have been on the petition, even if she did live in Louisiana.  Which is kind of the point.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Bobby Jindal for Governor.  Like this was a hard call to make. Continue reading The meaning of 55 in Louisiana gubernatorial politics.

Gov. Bobby Jindal (R, LA) gives up on waiting for BP/WH.

(Via Hot Air Headlines) Given that the leak hasn’t been plugged yet, and given that the Gov. Jindal has a state to look after, this isn’t surprising.

Eight weeks into the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of the Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has told the National Guard that there’s no time left to wait for BP, so they’re taking matters into their own hands.

In Fort Jackson, La., Jindal has ordered the Guard to start building barrier walls right in the middle of the ocean. The barriers, built nine miles off shore, are intended to keep the oil from reaching the coast by filling the gaps between barrier islands.

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Legions of Editors & Fact-Checkers Watch: The Atlantic poll cherrypicking.

Please note that I am not making the accusation that overt racism has anything to do with Mr. Good’s ill-crafted attack on Governor Bobby Jindal.

(H/T: Instapundit) The Atlantic’s Chris Good, on Governor Jindal’s (correct) observation that polls show that the public does not support the Democrats’ health care plans:

Of the most recent, reliable, non-partisan major polls–a Sept. 12 Washington Post/ABC survey, an Economist/YouGov survey released Sept. 15, and a Sept. 25 NY Times/CBS poll–only the first shows Americans opposed to Democratic plans (48 percent to 52 percent); the other two show Americans in favor, though NY Times/CBS found that 46 percent say they don’t know enough to decide.

Slate’s Mickey Kaus, after noting that Good unaccountably ignored Economist/YouGov polls done after September 15th, not to mention some others that destroyed Good’s narrative, provides a correction:

Of the most recent, reliable, non-partisan major polls–a Sept. 12 Washington Post/ABC survey, an Economist/YouGov survey released Sept. 29, and a Sept. 25 NY Times/CBS poll–two of the three show Americans opposed to Democratic plans. The only one showing even a plurality in favor is the wacky NY Times/CBS survey that managed to generate a 46 percent undecided number. [E.A.]

I know that the Atlantic is getting to be one of those places that seem to be overly tolerant of bizarre conspiracy theories, but this is bush-league stuff – and easily checked. One wonders why nobody did.

Or why nobody’s fixed this yet, either.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.