For a “rising Republican star,” this is the best that the GOP can come up with?

With all things being equal, Bobby Jindal would cut spending on the New Orleans’ levee system. I wonder how the people of that area, both republican and democrat, would feel about that?

So mysterious are the workings of the republican mind. In their world, the poor exist only because they’re lazy hippies, and America has an unending supply of land (with an unending oil reserve underneath it!) No one needs to live near hurricane-ravaged coastal areas, volcanic mountains, low-lying flood plains, along tornado ally or in seismic-active California. If you live in one of these areas, it’s your own damn fault. Our money can be best spent elsewhere – like on a futuristic Star Wars missile defense system, or guns-for-tots programs.

This shit makes my head hurt. Bobby Jindal, you’ve opened your mouth and have effectively “removed all doubt.” Now STFU!

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s volcano remark has some fuming

(CNN) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s swipe at federal spending to monitor volcanoes has the mayor of one city in the shadow of Mount St. Helens fuming.

“Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard?” Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, said on Wednesday. “We have one that’s very active, and it still rumbles and spits and coughs very frequently.” [...]

“Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington,” Jindal said.

But Marianne Guffanti, a volcano researcher at the U.S. Geological Survey, said, “We don’t throw the money down the crater of the volcano and watch it burn up.”

The USGS, which received the money Jindal criticized, is monitoring several active volcanoes across the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii. One of those is Mount St. Helens, about 70 miles north of Vancouver, Washington, and neighboring Portland, Oregon.

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