Jindal Tours Louisiana Attacking ‘Washington Spending’ While Handing Out Jumbo-Sized Stimulus Checks
Jindal Tours Louisiana Attacking ‘Washington Spending’ While Handing Out Jumbo-Sized Stimulus Checks
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) has been touring his home state of Louisiana for what he calls a “Louisiana Working” tour to promote “jobs, jobs and jobs. That must be our No. 1 priority.” On the tour, Jindal is giving stump speeches decrying “Washington, D.C. and other officials” for seeking to “spend more money” during an economic downturn.
Indeed, on Monday, Jindal declared the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be a failure, calling it a “stimulus that has not stimulated.” In local Louisiana newspapers, Jindal touted his administration’s intent to “not run things here in Louisiana the way they do in Washington.”
As he travels to each community, Jindal has been gaining many positive headlines by sponsoring press events where he gives out jumbo-sized checks to towns and parishes. Below is a picture compilation of checks Jindal has presented to Louisiana communities such as Lafayette, Terrebonne Parish, St. Landry Parish, and Vernon Parish:
Despite the fact that the checks contain millions of dollars of Recovery Act funds for job training programs, housing assistance programs, homelessness prevention programs, police training, criminal justice technology upgrades, and community development block grants, Jindal has been printing his own name on the checks and taking credit for the money. For example, Jindal presented Lafayette with yet another jumbo-sized check that contained at least $2,125,584 in Recovery Act funds. Though the money came from spending policies authorized by the Recovery Act, Jindal did not appear to credit the Recovery Act at all. And although the state stands to gain nearly $8 billion in federal funding from the Recovery Act, Jindal was one of several GOP governors to try to block the measure earlier this year.
While Jindal knocks Washington spending as he builds his national profile, he is shoring up his local support by spending Washington money.
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Hmm, let’s see… Jindal is proving to be hypocritical, partisan to the point of ignoring reality, and eager to talk about problems while disparaging real solutions.
Sounds like a Republic presidential hopeful to me.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:33 amThis just shows the inherent dishonesty of so many in the GOP.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:33 amThe love to talk about morality, until they are required to be moral.
They love to talk about states rights, until their state does something they don’t like.
And they love to bash governmet spending, unless it is spending on them.
Remember: “Pork” is defined as “Government spending in somebody else’s district.”
anyone know what the Indian word for ‘chutzpah’ is?
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:34 amWTF?
This skanky slimeball opportunist needs to be slapped down with a really serious craphammer…
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:36 amHypocritical = GOP
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:36 amDoes anybody remember the extra funding Bill Clinton asked for soon after he came into office, to give to cities specifically to put more police officers on the streets?
I remember that. I also remember our very conservative Republican mayor running for re-election claiming, “I put XXX more police officers on our streets!” (even though he originally opposed Clinton’s plan). I seem to recall Rudy Giuliani doing that as well. They were given money to increase their police force and the money wasn’t permitted to be used for any other purpose, so they hired more police with the money and tried to tell the voters it was a wonderful thing they did on their own.
Now I see Bobby Jindal is doing pretty much the same thing with his state’s stimulus money. And I’m willing to be he won’t be the only GOP governor to do so.
What a bunch of hypocrites. But it’s become such a way of life for them, they can’t even see the slime anymore.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:37 amanyone know what the Indian word for ‘chutzpah’ is?
katy, we here in New Orleans just call him “tool”.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:40 amanyone know what the Indian word for ‘chutzpah’ is?
It’s “chutzpah”, but you have a ten-minute dance squence when you say it.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:42 am***
this is what they hand
the winner of tournament
“governor”.
:|
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 amI just hope he self-destructs in public again… that was entertainment..
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 amJindal has been printing his own name on the checks
Please, pretty please, one of you journalists please ask Jindal if this means he is paying for the project out of his own bank account. When, he says “no”, ask him where the money is coming from. PLEASE?
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 ammisscoleopteramolly says: Now I see Bobby Jindal is doing pretty much the same thing with his state’s stimulus money. And I’m willing to be he won’t be the only GOP governor to do so.
Most of the governors yapping about refusing federal spending while doling out the checks come from states that net beneficiaries of federal taxes. In other words, taxpayers in Blue states like NJ, NY, CT are funding Jindal’s tour.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 amRemember that when these boobs try out their fiscal responsibility BS in the 2012 campaign.
I think Jindal is counting on the people not really caring where the money comes from, as long as they get it.
So he might as well take credit for it.
I wonder what the Republicans would say if President Obama went around to different communities handing out GIANT CHECKS?
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 amAnother “useful idiot” for the powers that be. The corruption in that state is incredible and the “The Big Sleazy” is a city unlike any other in America. They drown their own people for a few kickbacks. Only the music redeems that area.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:52 amProud, you proud of Jindahl? The man is flat out lying.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:56 amDamn Librul media. You’d think someone besides TP would highlight this hypocrisy. Maybe the the most trusted journalist in America, Jon Stewart will do a piece on this.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:58 amPlease don’t tell me that Jindal is a lying hypocritical whore. Wait. He’s the fair headed child in the Repugnant Party, of course he is.
My bad.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 amJindal is just another worthless lying hypocritical Republican prick.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:08 pmThere will be a high percentage of the “Louisiana intellectual elite” that will actual believe that “Bobby” is responsible for their good fortune.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:18 pmWonder if you could put a hold on that check?
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 pmtony and lido
Considering how many people still are not back in their homes after Katrina, Louisiana’s abysmal record on education and the number of people living below the poverty level, I don’t know that Bobby ought to be crowing about the efficacy of the “Louisiana Way.”
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:22 pmRepublic Fascist Party Member hypocrite…so what else is new…it’s what they do.
Has the “Liberal Media” pointed out that he is handing out Fed stimulus funds?
NO!!! Well, surprise, surprise, surprise!!!
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:24 pmOnce again, a display of the Rethuglican philosophy of “Do as I say, not as I do.”
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:24 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian says:
Jindal has been printing his own name on the checks
Please, pretty please, one of you journalists please ask Jindal if this means he is paying for the project out of his own bank account. When, he says “no”, ask him where the money is coming from. PLEASE?
Not going to happen any more than the local MSM pointing out the hypocrisy of what Jindal is doing. Nationwide 85% of our MSM is owned by conservatives. I’m betting it’s more like 100% in LA and that MSM is going to tell the citizens what they want them to hear, not what is really going on.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 pmWhile it’s not unusual for state politicians in Louisiana to had out money to other politicians it is Very Very unusual to have it photographed.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:27 pmAnd look at all those proud Republican donors taking their welfare checks!
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:28 pmBoth political parties pander. To do it on a really grand scale Jindal is showing you that you need to be a Republican, however. Oh, and MSM will allow him to get away with it.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:29 pmanyone know what the Indian word for ‘chutzpah’ is?
Jindahl?
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 pmRepublicans don’t care if your skin is brown as long as your neck is red.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:33 pmwait a sec – what “national profile”????
do “also-rans” have “national profiles”????
caribou barbie makes jindal look like the doorman whose name no one knows, and that’s no compliment to her, either.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:35 pmDear Bobby- Kiss My Black Ass !!!
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:37 pmI noticed that all of these parishes have a predominantly white population and none are located on the coast, where Katrina’s damage was the most devastating.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:41 pmMore Jumbo Checks?
He does realize this isn’t LOTTO, right?
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 pmThis proves that Jindahl is truly the face of the future of the Repignofascist Party – clueless.
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:48 pmSo the best he can do as governor is personally deliver checks like he’s Publisher’s Clearing House.
But he isn’t actually fixing problems for hundreds of thousands of people, even with oil and tourism business that bordering states (Arkansas, MS) would love to have.
That’s governing?
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:53 pmHopefully his duplicity will come back to haunt him, although, for some reason, that seldom happens to this kind of people.
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:18 pmIndeed, on Monday, Jindal declared the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be a failure,
Part of it is a failure. Jackasses like Bobby Jindal got part of it.
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 pmIt is up to the local press and the Dems to expose the BS by Jindal. Once he is perceived as a liar, his reelection chances go down.
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:24 pmThose Publisher’s Clearinghouse checks are freaking ridiculous. Would *love* to see the collage put together in one document, with the total amount of all the checks, and the caption: Governor Jindal, where did the $XX million you are claiming as your own really come from???
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:54 pmA) your own checking account
B) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
No they won’t. He’s a Republican. Everybody expects him to lie.
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:04 pmSo I guess he thinks the people of Louisiana are going to believe he wrote these checks on his personal account? I think they are smart enough to recognize this for the ridiculous sham that it is. And I hope the local and national democratic party is pointing it out with TV and radio ads just to be sure.
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:06 pmGreat idea zuma 58, at #41! La. people keep an eye on this please. Pressure on this please. The problem will be that you obviously can’t embarrass Jindal.
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:24 pmAll these photos lack is a hand cranked wire cage cylinder full of numbered ping pong balls and a blond wearing a sequenced bikini.
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:54 pmIt seems that any of the cash disbursement should be done in a solemn, business-like manner, not a party, given the severity of the economic situation. As far as I’m concerned, the stimulus is a last ditch effort to try to prop up a failed economy, and the money hand-outs are not a cause for celebration.
You don’t bring a cake to the hospital room the day they are starting chemo on your sick aunt. Save it for the party at home when she recovers.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:19 pm