Now Remind Me Who It Was …..
Remind me who it was who thought Bobby Jindal was the bright rising star of the GOP.
Honey, whoever is was has about the same credibility as Karl Rove and Dick Morris.
Bobby is riding in the back of the crazy wagon this week.
Lousiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) is pulling a plan to replace the income and corporate tax with a new sales tax amid an outcry from groups ranging from clergy to business lobbyists.
Ya know, when you have both the clergy and the business people against you, you’re hurting pretty damn bad in the GOP. I mean, that double play is hard to make. You can’t do it by accident.
Do they have a rest and rehabilitation home for accident prone Republican candidates? If not, we should think about building one – we’d occupy every floor and turn a profit within a month.
By the way, is this the same Bobby Jindal who said that the Republicans should stop being the stupid Party? Oh dude, heal thyself.
I once marveled at the high sales tax I had to pay. The cashier offered this: That’s nothing. You should look into our property taxes.
Luzianne has been broke since forever. But it’s also home to beaucoup chemical plants and oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. AND they have a super-abundance of casinos. (And they hate to spend a dime on their effed-up Interstate highways.)
So, I have to ask: WHY?
1What, me worry?
2@Lynne: You nailed it.
3@Naomi: I grew up in East Texas and we called it “Lousy-anna.”
Don’t suppose it’s changed much in 50 years.
He it’s trying to play catch up with Sam Brownback of Kansas who has announced his intention to do away with both property and income taxes. He too loves the idea of a sales tax. He has yet to figure out that this will send people across the state lines in droves to do their shopping. His belief is that it will cause people to move to Kansas, and to relocate their businesses there. Of course, these companies will have to be willing to put up with an underfunded school system that doesn’t like science and the most restrictive women’s health laws on the books and it will cost them an ATM and a leg to shop there but what the heck it’s “fair.”
4Deb you cut right to the point. Reliance on high sales taxes hurts the poor and middle class and decimates the educational system. The rich love it because they send their kids to private schools and can afford to buy what they want.
Not sure what made Jindal see the light, but he did admit it defeat.
5They’re the same people who now think that Marco Rubio is the current Republican rising star. 🙂
6LA is there to make TX look good … by comparison. MS is there to make LA look good … by comparison. Etc. Jindal thinks he’s gonna be the next Retardican pressident. Yo Bobby. Buy a vowel. Get a clue.
7Jindal does know stupid.
8This must be the latest Republican Grand Old Plan. Here in Ohio, Kasich’s latest budget plan was to roll back income taxes, some for the peons, a little bit more for business owners, but then extend the sales tax to just about everything you can think of. Interesting thing is that he’s getting opposition not just from the Dems but from his own party too.
9I have some cajun relatives who would gladly take him into the swamp in a pirogue and leave him to find his way out!
10Bobby Jindal versus Rick Perry. Yeah, Republicans have stopped being the Stupid Party – but they didn’t turn around. Instead, they left stupid in the dust and are stampeding toward barking mad tire-biter insanity.
This make Rand Paul the rational one. That’s right up there with casting Mitt Romney as a “man of the people.”
11Had some Louisiana friends tell me last week that they wanted to swap him for Rick Perry. I laughed!
12Deb, you said what I planned to so better than I could (and have). Thank you! What is it with these stupid, stupid, stupid GOP Governors?
We have to vote all of them out, out, out!
13I think I have Jindal’s slogan:
“Jindal in 2016, because you can never be too regressive for the Republican Party!”
Oh wait, that’s Santorum’s slogan, I mean Perry’s, I mean Ryan’s, I mean…..
14Jindal is much smarter than he appears. he knows how to play the game of politics. theory is now Jindal dumps the “issues” on the lawmakers. and then when no one can agree, Jindal returns to “save” the day.
Jindal is so evil, I bet Perry and Brownback will take courses in how to do ALEC on us all
Jindal cut funding for mental health, and refuses to take Medicaid money. scum of the earth for those who have no money. the Republicans here in LA love him so, rating notwithstanding. i can hardly wait to see what he has up his sleeve next. Stupid, that he aint. and that is the dangerous part about him.
this “dumping” of his sales tax/income tax plan is just one step in his “plan.” don’t ever doubt the cunning of this Republican.
15Years ago when stuck in Louisiana and Jindal first came on the stage, I was that misguided blind squirrel who thought that he was a danger to the Dems. Believe me, he used to sound a whole lot smarter in the early days.
I calmed down after that stupid volcano monitoring speech, and have remained at peace ever since. Drinking the Koolaid sure corrodes one’s brain cells.
16He was a rising star as long as he was only a theory. As soon as he appeared in public, exposed to the nation, he looked more like a missing member of the Addams Family. The guy is creepy. Even if he were as smart and talented as once claimed he would lose because of his creepiness.
17For a guy who lives in a state with wonderful food, he’s too damn skinny.
18Just returned from a short (thank goodness!) sojourn in LA. We had to give out one of our cell phone numbers to a whole squadron of people in order to get business done and the calls started to come in from sources we never knew existed. I happened to mention to my friend that the only time she should really get ticked off is if Bobby Jindal calls! She immediately blocked the number.
As for the highway system, 10 and 12 are really, really good. The rest of the roads could use a little help and Baton Rouge needs to get off of its civic butt and do something about those horse and buggy city streets that are now carrying 3 times as much as they were intended for due to the growth of that area from evacuees of Hurricane Katrina who decided to stay. But beating up on the poor and middle class just ain’t gonna cut it! The Dems in that state should be taking out billboards everywhere with that sentiment on it. I’ve know that state for 45 years and the big companies do whatever they damn well please including ruining the little islands between the Gulf and New Orleans that used to afford some protection from hurricanes. Check it out. When the Biggies wanted to do business in southwestern LA they just cut right through everything in the way and created their own channels. To hell with whoever died in the next hurricane.
19He was just trying to be more like Texas, right?
Just like that Virginia Governor trying to be a Texas wannabe with his ultra-sound law.
It all makes me sad.
20OK, we have to start using a stop watch to time these guys:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/bobby-jindal-income-tax_n_3039317.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
21http://louisianavoice.com/2013/04/04/jindal-grades-out-at-d-or-f-with-88-of-voters-in-t-p-poll-does-that-mean-louisiana-should-appoint-charter-governor/
22Lynne: Spot on! Alfred E. Neuman in the flesh!
23Oh boy.
And when the French Revolution came, the clergy were against it. And I hear the nobility raised a bit of a fuss too.
When one’s ox is being gored, particularly those gilded special-interest oxen, one tends to raise a hue and cry over it. It’s doesn’t mean it’s not the ox’s turn to be carved up.
I’ve been reading here, lurking around. I notice this blog – oops, professional political organization – seems to be more about personalities than any kind of real analysis. Being short on analysis, let me offer a little.
It seems counter-intuitive, but firms often have a vested interest in maintaining tax and regulatory regimes. They have invested the expertise to master them, to navigate through them, and they benefit from them. How? Well, if Big Corp has to maintain a huge team of accountants and lawyers to work in a particular area, then that is a barrier to entry to Little Corp. If Little Corp wants to play where Big Corp does, then it will need to hire that same highly expensive team of experts. Big Corp can keep profit margins just slim enough to prevent Little Corp from ever acquiring the capital needed to make that investment.
So Big Corp keeps lobbyists on its payroll to lobby against regulatory rollbacks and tax changes that might help Little Corp. And when Big Corp supports more regulations, it’s because its lawyers and accountants wrote the legislation, and know exactly how to respond to it.
So, the fact that businesses are reacting negatively to the tax changes means nothing.
24The Repubs plan to appeal to Hispanics not be addressing the issues in a way that would attract them, but by finding someone whose skin color is similar. Jindal was merely the first in the GOP’s desperate search for their “Great Brown Hope.”
25LynnN
What an ugly, despicable racist thing to say. People like you have been saying that garbage for long enough, and I’m going to call it what it is.
So you somehow believe that ALL hispanics (or brown people) are only interested in the kind of government you like: cradle to grave welfare state, perpetually propping them up? You think that absolutely nothing about the GOP message could ever be attractive to anyone but white anglo-saxon males?
It’s race plantationism, nothing more. In your mind, “true” minorities will flock to your progressive plantation, and fake ones like Jindal are just trying to eat scraps from the conservative table, where he will never be truly accepted as an equal. Because of course the fact that we aren’t throwing free things at them means we actually hate them.
And worse, what makes your thinking so bad is that it takes for granted that saying nice things and giving unearned things to neatly categorized groups of people is actually GOOD for them. Making them fat and comfortable on your cozy plantation is the sign that you care about them more than those skinflint GOPers, who actually expect them to build themselves up.
26Oops! Talking Points Alert! “Brian” may be one of those paid/professional “ringers” we’ve all heard about. It’s patently obvious you have absolutely nothing in common with us. I accuse you of being a Troll. You can bill for two posts here. Your rebuttal will raise your “billing” to three.
And, Brian, I call it like I see it.
27And Brian, I will answer you. What I said was not racist. It was calling out the GOP for being racist by thinking that all they need to do is find themselves a minority candidate, while at the same time pursuing policies that are actively harmful to minorities.
I never said that ALL Hispanics want cradle-to-grave welfare or that I do. You said that. What most people want is opportunities to advance themselves. The GOP’s harsh anti-immigrant stance, the attempts to disenfranchise poor and minority voters, and attacks on public education take away opportunities and the loss falls hardest on disadvantaged groups.
At this point the GOP message is tailored specifically to be attractive to white Anglo-Saxon males, preferably those with lots of money. Your delusion that the GOP’s stand on issues is really just wonderful, but that somehow minorities, women, the young, gays, etc. are just failing to get the message is what’s ludicrous.
I have no idea what “race plantationism” even is since you just made it up. It is interesting in that same paragraph that you say, “we aren’t throwing free things at them.”
We? Them?
You go on to accuse (presumably progressives) of “giving unearned things to neatly categorized groups of people” and thus “making them fat and comfortable.” This tallies nicely with the view right-wingers seem to have of minorities. And you wonder why your message isn’t attractive?
Finally, note that if you really want people to build themselves up then they need to have the opportunity to do so. The GOP doesn’t even want poor people to vote.
28Y’all, I agreed to give you a safe place to talk without trolls. That will happen. Sorry I got sloppy in approving comments on the fly yesterday but I tend to agree that this particular Brian – not the good Brian who sends very cool links – needs to find somewhere else to be a distraction.
29Way to go LynnN! Couldn’t have put it more succinctly myself.
30In a face off with Ann Coulter, he won the Biggest Adam Apple Award. The only thing he ever accomplished in his life so far!
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