Friday, February 27, 2009
Jindal's World: The Dems punch back and the GOP punches again, and...oh, who cares
Posted by Kevin Allman on Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:49 PM
The Louisiana Democratic Party has issued a statement about Gov. Bobby Jindal's office and its sorta-kinda retraction-clarification on the Harry Lee story:
Gov. Jindal told the story in a way that made it sound like he was assisting Harry Lee in the sheriff’s office as rescue boats were being turned away – which the governor’s office now says wasn’t the case. The first responders’ heroism during Katrina is something that Louisianians hold sacred, and people are upset that Gov. Jindal framed the incident as if he was one of those first responders.
No word on whether "people" are upset that the Dems are now working those first responders' heroism as shamelessly as did Gov. Jindal.
Meanwhile, the Jindal office provides this YouTube video to Politico.com, and Politico notes:
Gov. Bobby Jindal's office, stressing that he visited Sheriff Henry [sic] Lee in the heat of the Katrina crisis, sends over a video of the late sheriff recalling the storm and its aftermath.In this video, Sheriff Harry Lee recalls Jindal arriving "the day after" the storm and says, "He was there all the time."
Lee doesn't recount or date the story of red tape delaying rescule boats in the video.
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I kind care. It wasn't heroes in unregistered boats that rescued people after Katrina (despite, big bad guv-mint and evil nameless bureaucrats). It was the COAST GUARD. For Jindal to make up a hokey story whose premise is government is bad, faceless bureaucrats are wicked and tried to stymie hard workin' Americans who wanted to help out in unregistered boats does a disservice to the federal mandate that is known and the US COAST GUARD. He made a up a story in order to crap on the world's largest elected democracy (that created one of the greatest coastal patrolling organizations the world has ever seen, that pulled people from rooftops, that rescues people at sea, that protects our shores form drugs and illegal immigration) for personal partisan gain. He didn't give any credit to the men and women who did the lion's share of the rescuing, and instead made it sound like every hillbilly with an unregistered boat was a hero (despite the big evil, nameless bureaucrat). It's truly shameless.
or the letters section: No thanks to Jindal for the condescending, remedial-quality rehash of the republican party platform. We know it already, we've suffered it for the last eight years, why do you think we didn't vote for it? Speaking for the progressive blue islands in this state, and even the farmers adrift in your sea of red who need the subsidies you take away from them to support despicable corporate-farming conglomerates.... why do you think we didn't vote for YOU? Didn't Jindal get the "PR re-tooling" memo RE: the entire republican party?
