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KeepItReal

(7,769 posts) Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:09 PM Mar 2015

It's time for Bobby Jindal to resign: Robert Mann

Gov. Jindal, it's time to quit. Not your campaign for the White House, although I think that would be wise. I mean that you should resign the governor's job that has lost your attention and consumes little of your energy.

These are dangerous times, and Louisiana needs a full-time governor completely focused on our challenges. It's not only our budget crisis, but also other serious problems that still require an active governor's attention in the final year of his term.

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We have some of the nation's highest poverty and worst health outcomes and you've done little to address them. Baton Rouge, your hometown, has the nation's second-highest HIV rate (New Orleans is fourth), but you've done nothing to address that crisis. What you have done is hollow out higher education and inject needless confusion and rancor into the state's elementary and secondary education system. Meanwhile, the state's health care system is a fractured, dysfunctional mess under your privatization schemes. Now, you've outsourced the state's tax policy to Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform.

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If you persist in running for president, however, then at least have the decency to admit to us what everyone already knows: You don't want this job. And, then, do us all a favor. Resign.

Read the entire editorial at: http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2015/03/its_time_for_bobby_jindal_to_r.html#incart_most-comments

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It's time for Bobby Jindal to resign: Robert Mann (Original Post) KeepItReal Mar 2015 OP

Perhaps The Washington Post put it best. You are "the rising star who has stalled." KamaAina Mar 2015 #1

Why should he resign? old guy Mar 2015 #2

he is a republican whore Skittles Mar 2015 #3

I don't know if I would want to call him that LynneSin Mar 2015 #7

this is exactly how i see him, different from the ted cruz, rand paul and some other types JI7 Mar 2015 #10

Besides, quitting in the middle of his term would shore up his conservative bona fides KamaAina Mar 2015 #4

Hot Telcontar Mar 2015 #5

sexist much? mopinko Mar 2015 #11

Why yes, yes I am Telcontar Mar 2015 #12

hoooeee father founding Mar 2015 #8

maybe it's not giving enough attention to the job father founding Mar 2015 #6

I don't know where he ever got the idea localroger Mar 2015 #9

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

1. Perhaps The Washington Post put it best. You are "the rising star who has stalled."

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:13 PM

Mar 2015

old guy

(3,283 posts)

2. Why should he resign?

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 03:08 PM

Mar 2015

He has a job as long as he wants it. The people of La. must love him as they voted for him twice. Unless the law won't let him run again he'll be around for a long time.

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

3. he is a republican whore

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 03:53 PM

Mar 2015

he's doing exactly what they want him to do

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)

7. I don't know if I would want to call him that

Reply to Skittles (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 04:06 PM

Mar 2015

At least a whore is getting something out of the deal.

Bobby Jindal just seems like this pathetic fool so desperately trying to be one of the cool kids but nobody really wants to have him on their team. Like with the letter that the Senators wrote to Iran about the negotiations. It was only AFTER it was written that Jindal had to say 'OOOO me too! me too!' He just seems so needy and clingy and the GOP let's him tag along because well why not, he isn't hurting anyone but they still make him sit at the kiddie table.

JI7

(89,249 posts)

10. this is exactly how i see him, different from the ted cruz, rand paul and some other types

Reply to LynneSin (Reply #7)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 04:37 PM

Mar 2015

who really do believe the crap they spew most of the time and have some agenda they believe in.

in jindal's case i think he wants to be liked and accepted by right wing whites .

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

4. Besides, quitting in the middle of his term would shore up his conservative bona fides

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 03:55 PM

Mar 2015

Telcontar

(660 posts)

5. Hot

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 03:58 PM

Mar 2015

I have issues trusting someone who looks so good.

mopinko

(70,103 posts)

11. sexist much?

Reply to Telcontar (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 09:45 AM

Mar 2015

wtf?

Telcontar

(660 posts)

12. Why yes, yes I am

Reply to mopinko (Reply #11)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 06:48 PM

Mar 2015

Thank you for noticing.

father founding

(619 posts)

8. hoooeee

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 04:07 PM

Mar 2015

Who's Thunder Thighs ?

father founding

(619 posts)

6. maybe it's not giving enough attention to the job

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 04:05 PM

Mar 2015

maybe he just sucks at it.

localroger

(3,626 posts)

9. I don't know where he ever got the idea

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 04:34 PM

Mar 2015

...that he could get himself elected President. He has never won an election against a credible opponent, and despite his reputation as a genius among certain elements who think that liking Jindal also absolves them of accusations of racism, he has plainly done a poor job as governor, has the personality of a 50's era science fiction robot, and is only regarded positively after he opens his mouth a few times by the aforementioned genius-thinkers who are a minority even within the Republican party.

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