Whatever you call him, anyone who has met Jindal quickly realizes that he considers himself a good ol\u2019 boy, born and bred. Bubba Bobby. An admitted policy nerd who probably would rather revamp health care reform \u2014 overnight with no coffee \u2014 than attend a gator-wrestling match, he\u2019s apparently ready to start flexing his muscles.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Though new to the broader public, this is a familiar Jindal to Louisianans during the Katrina era. While then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco was clearly overwhelmed by events, Jindal became the Incredible Hulk. Then a congressman in Washington, you might say he was bustin\u2019 his britches to save the day, or at least as many fellow citizens as possible. He flew to Louisiana, presumably by his own powers, rolled up his sleeves and procured caravans of trucks for relief efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, I\u2019m a big fan of Jindal, though I cringed as much as anyone at his disastrous 2009 State of the Union response (one of these days, I should look for a speech on YouTube to see what his uncoached speaking style is). \u00a0He\u2019s a nerd, a precocious public-policy geek who had a longer list of accomplishments at a younger age than anyone else \u2014 and by \u201caccomplishments\u201d I don\u2019t just mean offices that he had won election to.<\/p>\n
So far a I can tell (and this comes partly from reading his book a couple years ago; I should dig that out again if I didn\u2019t donate it to clear space on the bookshelves at some point), his biggest limitation is that he gets a bit too attached to one-size-fits-all solutions in areas outside his expertise. \u00a0He was promoting massively punitive treatment of sex offenders, if I remember right, in his book \u2014 despite the fact that these programs have devastated the lives of even statutory rape offenders, and left men homeless as they can\u2019t find a place to live. \u00a0And a while back there was a tax proposal that he had to drop, though I don\u2019t remember the details.<\/p>\n
But just imagine if he, rather that Obama and Sebelius, were in charge of the ObamaCare exchanges \u2014 and in charge of designing the law itself. \u00a0Hmmm . . . makes me wonder if he\u2019s said anything publicly about that. . .<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
That\u2019s the headline for Kathleen Parker\u2019s opinion piece today (in the Trib, but syndicated from the Washington Post) on Jindal, describing the dust-up over his comments at the National Governor\u2019s Association. \u00a0The comments themselves aren\u2019t very interesting, but here\u2019s what she has to say about Jindal more generally: Whatever you call him, anyone who has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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