GOVERNOR JINDAL: AGAIN SHOWS HE’S NOT QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT

….Appropriate Caricature of the Louisiana Governor Jindal

Bobby Jindal makes ridiculous recommendations for a Constitutional Amendment.

Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is an East Indian-American politician who is the 55th and current governor of Louisiana and the former vice chairman of the Republican Governors Association.  There is no doubt that Jindal is a book-smart man who studied for a Bachelor of Science in biology and public policy at Brown University, and then a Master of Letters in political science from New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar.

In 1996, Louisiana Gov. Murphy Foster appointed Jindal secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, and in 1999 he was appointed president of the University of Louisiana System. In 2001, Jindal was appointed as the principal adviser to Tommy Thompson, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services by the 43rd President, George W. Bush.

In 2004, Jindal won a Louisiana seat in the United States House of Representatives. He became the second East-Indian American in Congress, and he was re-elected in 2006.

Jindal ran for governor in 2007 and secured an outright majority in the first round of balloting.  In doing so, he became the first East-Indian American governor in the United States. He was re-elected in a landslide in 2011.

Six years ago, Gov. Bobby Jindal gave the Republican response to President Barack Obama's very first State of the Union (SOTU) address.  Governor Jindal had been selected to make the Republican response as he was then being sold as a real “comer” in the GOP.

Unfortunately, for Bobby, in the USA TODAY article the following morning, they listed Jindal's appearance as one of the five poorest State of the Union Republican responses seen in recent years.

 

It was so poor, that before last year’s GOP response to the President’s latest SOTU, USA TODAY advised the Freshman Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who gave the Republican response, to try and avoid a poor performance such as Bobby Jindal's. 

So, Governor Jindal had been both a Rhodes Scholar and an insider in the Republican party.  A major university system president, an adviser to a cabinet secretary and an elected Republican member of congress.  And finally, he had won a landslide election as the governor of a state. 

 

These are all the usual excellent resume items for going after the top political position in the US and the world.

As a young governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton also had what was called the "worst" ever response to a State of the Union speech in 1985.  But Clinton then went on to become the president a few years later. Now, Bill Clinton is considered one of the best communicators in American politics, on either the left or the right, but a number of Republicans, such as Jindal, have since out-done Bill Clinton’s “worst” SOTU response.

So, after all of this background, I was a bit surprised that Jindal had first taken that role of giving the Republican response.  Especially as that position has been a jinx for many previous so called Republican “comers”.  In fact, even the USA TODAY Jindal article had stated that four other Republicans had previously turned in bad response speeches.  Since Jindal’s response, the Florida Senator, Marco Rubio has added another poor Republican SOTU response. 

However, the new senator from Iowa, Joni Ernst, did follow the papers advise and gave a very well done response last January.

The point of all this information is that Bobby Jindal was put on the shelf for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination due to his poor Republican SOTU response speech.  And before the president’s last 2015 SOTU, Bobby Jindal didn’t let his previous bad response performance stop him from going after the president with a snarky Tweet.  Jindal Tweeted: “I’ll save you 45 mins. Obama will decry Republicans, beat up on private business and argue for more “free stuff". Your welcome. #SOTU2015”

So here we are, and on June 24, 2015, Jindal announced his candidacy for president in 2016.  So now, Jindal is going after the nomination he had missed out on in 2012.  And he's doing it along with the large herd of other Republicans that are seeking that role.

But Bobby has once again shown that Rhodes Scholar or not, Bobby Jindal is not qualified to run for the highest office in the land.

Being the US president means that you have a full understanding of how this country's politics works and about all that is involved in running a democracy.

The basics are that a true democracy is many times referred to as a “three legged stool”.  The legs are the three branches of government, with all three having equal power.  The three are the Legislature, the Judicial System and the Executive branch.  As with any three legged stool, if you remove one leg, the stool no longer functions.

By design, our government is what the nation’s founding fathers meant to provide by making all three branches having that equal power.  No King or imperial head of state that has more power than the Supreme Court or the two branches of the legislature.

But apparently Bobby Jindal doesn’t have that understanding.

After the US Supreme Court announced its decision last week for making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states, Governor Jindal went berserk.  One internet publication has actually stated that, “Governor Bobby Jindal, quite possibly the worst candidate for president in the field, has a novel approach for being taken seriously as a candidate.”

Upon hearing the high court’s decision, the governor stated, "The Supreme Court is completely out of control, making laws on their own, and has become a public opinion poll instead of a judicial body. If we want to save some money let’s just get rid of the court."

Yep, the governor is seriously recommending that we get rid of one of the three “legs-of-the-stool”, just to save some money.  Hell, if you want to save some money, get rid of the Congress….just kidding. 

Sorry Bobby, it doesn’t work that way.  Just because we don’t agree with a decision, doesn’t mean we “throw the baby out with the bath water”.

Does Jindal really think that the nation’s conservative base is so angry and extreme that they would actually vote for him based on his advocacy of a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Supreme Court?

I don’t think that Jindal really wants to throw out the US Constitution’s 3^rd Amendment.  You know, the one that authorizes only one Supreme Court for the United States.

But then again, these are the same conservative that tried over 50 times to take away affordable health care from over 15 million Americans and the same party that lies saying that Obamacare has “death panels”.

As I said, 2016 will be a very interesting election year.

Copyright G.Ater 2015