Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal presented a plan to rebuild America’s military strength and reaffirm the United States as a force for freedom and stability around the world. The potential 2016 presidential contender spoke to the American Enterprise Institute Monday as terrorist groups are destabilizing the Middle East and North Africa, Iraq is on the brink of becoming a failed state, and Russian forces attempt to destroy a pro-West government in Ukraine.
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GOV. BOBBY JINDAL (R-LA): As we draw to the close of the politically relevant portion of the Obama presidency – the years in which the president had the power to get anything done, and the interest in doing it – we are at a point where we can assess the nation and the world that President Obama is leaving us.
Much of the recent media coverage of the Obama presidency has focused on the frustrations of the president with the political process.
Time and again, he turns to the Third Person to explain the ineffectiveness of his leadership.
It is always “they” who stand against his noble aims to help the people, “they” who botched Obamacare, “they” who underestimated the threats of ISIS. For this president, there’s always someone else to blame.
For all that has been written about President Obama’s negative impact on American businesses, I’ll give him this: No president has done so much for the straw men industry.
Every day he sets one on fire. Whatever you want to say about his golf game, the guy knows how to use a flamethrower.
But I would argue that this blaming of the Third Person is actually wrong.
Because for the most part, we actually live in the America that President Obama wanted to create.
We live in the country and in the world that progressives wanted.
Where we are didn’t happen by accident. It didn’t happen because President Obama was frustrated by the political process.
It happened because, as Richard Weaver told us, “ideas have consequences.”
And what does an America governed under those ideas look like?
On the domestic front, we are a nation faltering slowly through a lackluster recovery, one that has been marked by profits gathered by the powerful and well-connected, and stagnant wages and dimmed prospects for those of us who are not.
It is a nation with effectively a cradle to grave welfare state, with a federal government that bribes the states with taxpayer dollars – borrowed from China our kids will have to repay – to grow entitlement programs for childless able-bodied adults which trap them in a lifetime of disincentives for success.
It is a nation marked by exhaustion and discouragement and fear, where wealth and power are centralized in an immense and out of control federal government.
It is a nation where the people feel they no longer have a voice, where the massive and cronyist administrative state seeks to control almost every aspect of our lives.
It is a nation of backroom deals where regulators run the show and those who play ball get bailouts.
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We already know the America Bobby and his party want to 'create'. We lived in it from 2000-2008. We saw the World Trade center collapse. Saw that tragedy used to start a war that was completely unrelated, yet was sold to us based on terrorism-fear. Saw an economic collapse that destroyed the retirement accounts of millions of Americans, and the DOW lose 35% of its value. Saw the US automakers declare bankruptcy. Saw the crippled bodies of our soldiers brought back from wars that only served to make us more hated, to fuel more terrorism and to fill the bank accounts of a few of the Chief Executive's friends. We saw Supreme Court justices appointed who gave more rights to corporations than to citizens. Who allowed Roe v. Wade to be undermined with illegal, immoral regulations aimed at taking away women's rights. We saw regulations on a corrupt Wall Street rolled back, and an acceleration of the widening of the wealth/poverty gap.
There was a time when the GOP could stand up and claim "Sure our social policies suck, but we do better with the economy than Democrats". No longer. The last two GOP administrations have wrecked the economy. The last two Democratic Administrations have healed it. Only a person blind to facts claims otherwise. So now the party with the horrible social agenda has nothing to recommend it....
another socialist drunk on koolaide
Exactly. I could not done more to prove my point than you have. One side writes long fact-filled analysis of the situation, the other side gathers a hunk of their chewing tobacco, spits and replies "Sheeee---yite....ya'll sound like one of them thar queeer commies we shoot every Saturday night..."
Thank you for helping drive people away from your crazy causes...
so what brand of baccy do you chew?
I get it...conservatives, in your estimation, are tobacco chewing, gun toting hillbillies too dumb to converse with the "fact-filled" analysts of your kind. That's similar to your dear leader's comment about clinging to guns and religion.
I'd love to hear your take on blacks.
How about Mexican/Latins?
Let's get to the REAL core of who Doug White is.
I agree with you Bob.
Guessing Mr White is receiving a substantial monthly check.
"Bush's fault" is getting a little tiresome.
I wonder if the low approval of obamacare across the country is Bush's fault somehow too??
fuk obamacare..... my wife had excellent health insurance and they cancled it right after this shitforbrains Affordable (code talk for lets make sure all the welfare dems have free insurance) health care went through. Her replacement policy cost went up with the new company, the benefits went down, and today we just got another rate increase raising the monthly premium to $965.88.....before all this mess started it was $629.58 .... affordable my arse......
Jindal is very on point here! Spoken as true leader who calls it the way it is .... based on previous exposure to his ideology he would likley make a very good pres