Last night’s speech by Bobby Jindal was quite possibly one of the most sophomoric, patronizing pieces of garbage I’ve witnessed in recent years. There were several moments where I sat back and thought to myself, “Does this guy think we’re infants?”
It looks as if I wasn’t the only one who had this reaction. Even a number of conservative voices are expressing their disappointment with Jindal’s pathetic exercise in infantile nihilism.
Here’s David Brooks:
Even the caterpillar-brains over at Fox News got in on the action:
Who wants to place bets on whether we don’t hear a peep from Schoolmarm Jindal in the next few weeks?
Update: Paul Krugman wins for the prize for my favorite quote on Jindal’s speech (re: his absurd mocking of volcano monitoring):
Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of snickering at stuff that they think sounds funny. The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.
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I am loving this right now, as you can probably tell. Jindal just exposed the GOP's problem to a large portion of the 52 million people who watched Obama, not counting the millions more who are hearing about his failure. This is indicative of the stature of the GOP right now.
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