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I hope this encourages the Prez to discuss climate change in detail.
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/27/bobby_jindal_pleads_with_obama_not_to_mention_the_climate_crisis_during_hurricane_katrina_commemoration/
Bobby Jindal pleads with Obama not to mention the climate crisis during Hurricane Katrina commemoration
As Obama visits New Orleans on the 10 year anniversary, Jindal tells him to shove his "lecture on climate change"
Sophia Tesfaye
He is running for president, commemorating the 10th anniversary of his states worst natural disaster (man-made catastrophe) and hosting screenings of undercover anti-Planned Parenthood sting videos on his front lawn, but Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal still found time in his busy schedule to write a letter to President Obama this week, imploring him not to politicize the somber anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by mentioning the radical agenda of climate change.
Warning that partisan politics from Washington, D.C. are unwelcome in Louisiana in the best of times, Jindal warned President Obama to carefully consider what he says during his upcoming visit to the Crescent City in a letter released Wednesday evening. President Obama is expected to focus on the persistent racial and economic inequities that have dogged the city since before the storm.
Nevertheless, Jindal found it appropriate to suggest President Obama ignore the topic of the environment all together. Although I understand that your emphasis in New Orleans will rightly be on economic development, the temptation to stray into climate change politics should be resisted, Jindal urged President Obama. I would ask you to respect this important time of remembrance by not inserting the divisive political agenda of liberal environmental activism, Jindal wrote.
Thats right. The governor of Louisiana would rather the president not talk about the environment during a tour of the long-term impact of one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit this country.
Jindal dismissed any such mention as a lecture on climate change, claiming it would distract from the losses we have suffered. Jindal also falsely suggested that President Obamas concern about the impact of climate change amounted to an opinion that we can legislate away hurricanes with higher taxes, business regulations and EPA power grabs.
Bobby Jindal is currently polling in 14th place nationally, with 0.4 percent support from Republican primary voters according to the Huffington Post tracker.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)as long as we're talking about politicizing Katrina
His new book features a new version of an anecdote that landed him in some hot water last year
The evidence is growing that Gov. Bobby Jindal embellished a story of heroism in the face of bureaucracy during Hurricane Katrina to put himself in the middle of the action.
In his new book, Leadership and Crisis, Jindal repeats a favorite story that first drew scrutiny when he told it last year. And subtle but telling shifts in the way Jindal recounts the story suggest that the original version was less than accurate.
This gets a bit complicated, so bear with us. The story of the story begins in February 2009, when Jindal was selected for the plum assignment of giving the Republican response to President Obamas first State of the Union address. A central anecdote in that speech involved Jindal, at the height of Katrina in 2005, supposedly helping the sheriff of Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans to beat back an unnamed bureaucrat who was trying to block boats from rescuing stranded citizens because the boats lacked proof of registration. Here is the video of that bit of the speech, with transcript below:
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Gidney N Cloyd
(19,838 posts)tanyev
(42,564 posts)of conservative environmental do-nothings.
What a fuckhead.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Jindal, as a Republican, can't say no to them.