Bobby Jindal’s Not Fun Run

[DonViejo]

Eleanor Clift

The Louisiana Governor has all the smarts in the world. So why can’t he keep his foot out of his mouth?

“I’m partial to governors, they’ve actually run something, as opposed to our current president,” says Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. “We can’t afford more on the job training.” Jindal says he’ll decide in the next few months whether he’ll run for president. But if he does, will anyone much notice or care?

Polls have him bunched in the back of the pack in the low single digits, he’s facing a $1.6 billion deficit in Louisiana, and his credibility took a whack over claims he made touring London last month about “no-go zones” controlled by Muslims that proved bogus.

As a reporter put it to Jindal at a Monday breakfast in Washington hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, when governors run for president they want to do for the country what they’ve done for their state. Jindal inherited a $900 million surplus in 2008 and to be fair, part of his state’s woes are the result of tumbling oil prices. But he also has what ‘s being dubbed a “Brownback problem,” an ideological zeal to cut taxes and squeeze spending that has even the Republicans running to replace him after two terms skewering Jindal for his fiscal stewardship.

We saw this play out last year when Kansas Governor Sam Brownback came close to losing his bid for reelection after his aggressive tax-cutting left the state with a huge hole in the budget and triggered a backlash even from his Republican allies.

Jindal is not the only Republican governor with presidential ambitions to have a Brownback problem. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker faces a $2.2 billion shortfall and growing pushback from the state’s education establishment for draconian cuts in higher education while tax breaks remain untouched. In New Jersey, Governor Christie is going to have a tough time spinning an economic miracle with Moody’s downgrading the state’s credit rating because of unfunded pension funds and sluggish job growth.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/11/bobby-jindal-s-not-fun-run.html

[oldandhappy]

1. Ahhh Gov Jingle-Bells

A 900 million surplus gone missing. That will make a fine campaign ad!

[n2doc]

2. Poor Pyush

No degree of whitewashing will make him acceptable to the GOP base.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. For Jindal to actually accept and hang that pic

tells me he has more problems than just a foot in mouth habit.
is he planning to use THAT pic on any campaign brochures?

Still think Bush painted it.