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[Tripon]

http://theadvocate.com/news/neworle...state-off-a-fiscal-cliff-then-trying-to-revis

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand called former Gov. Bobby Jindal an “idiot” and likened him to notorious cult leader Jim Jones, excoriating the former Louisiana governor and presidential candidate this week for leading the state off a fiscal cliff.

Normand called on his fellow Republicans to clean up the state budget “mess” he said they largely created by going along with Jindal’s unyielding anti-tax orthodoxy.

“Bobby Jindal was a better cult leader than Jim Jones,” Normand said during his speech Tuesday at the Metropolitan Crime Commission’s annual awards banquet. “We drank the elixir for eight years. We remained in a conscious state; we walked to the edge of the cliff, and he watched. And guess what? Unlike Jim Jones, he did not swallow the poison. What a shame.”

Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, site of a mass murder-suicide in November 1978 of 918 people in Jonestown, Guyana. Jones apparently killed himself.

According to a transcript of the speech, which was posted by political blogger Lamar White, Normand urged Louisiana Republicans to take responsibility for the “mess” that remains and work as “intellectual individuals, void of a party, void of an overarching philosophy, working together.”

Man, not even his own party liked Jindal. Just who in the hell was he fighting for?

 

[mclem]

I recall Jindal being touted as a new and exciting Republican voice, quite possibly a future presidential candidate.

Things have changed, haven't they?

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

I recall Jindal being touted as a new and exciting Republican voice, quite possibly a future presidential candidate.

Things have changed, haven't they?

There's no quality future in conservatism, only shame.

 

[The Technomancer]

I would like to believe the states might be awakening from their conservative nightmare

Trump might just be the last thrashings

 

[Raxus]

It is kind of fun watching the republican party establishment fall apart at the seams.

 

[Gig]

Did anybody else quickly read that as "enters Bobby Jindal"?

 

[Angelus Errare]

I would like to believe the states might be awakening from their conservative nightmare

Trump might just be the last thrashings

Doubt it, conservative states will continue to vote in these people as long as "fiscally conservative" is in their platform somewhere. Doesn't matter that they're actually not or have any idea of how budgets works.

 

[dabig2]

You get the government you deserve. He got a double term as governor so they liked something about his dumb ass. Same goes for Kansas and Shitback.

 

[norinrad]

Anyone ever giggles a bit when someone calls himself/herself a physical conservative? They seem to think it's cool to throw foolish words around. hehehe

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Show me on this George W. Bush doll where the sheriff touched you Bobby.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

Anyone ever giggles a bit when someone calls himself/herself a physical conservative? They seem to think it's cool to throw foolish words around. hehehe

Just means they don't exercise

 

[jmood88]

Bobby Jindal enacted just about every item on the republican wish list and not only did it kill the state but all the republicans in Louisiana hated him for it. As usual, once republicans get a taste of their "brilliant" thought experiments in real life, they see how stupid their ideas are.

 

[siddx]

To think this doofus was to be the future of the republican party. Until he utterly botched his response to the state of the union and was put on the forever unclean list.

 

[Tripon]

To think this doofus was to be the future of the republican party. Until he utterly botched his response to the state of the union and was put on the forever unclean list.

You get one shot, better make it count.

 

[jmood88]

To think this doofus was to be the future of the republican party. Until he utterly botched his response to the state of the union and was put on the forever unclean list.

And the sad thing was that he didn't even recognize how badly he fucked things up and spent his entire second term spending Louisiana's money on a quixotic quest to become president.

 

[entremet]

More fiscal ignorance from GOP Governors.

 

[diaspora]

You get one shot, better make it count.

 

[Tripon]

Dodging bullets or grabbing a drink of water?