<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/956fde1b-a6a3-40b1-97ab-3da251bcea86/A4C24C09-4CB4-4167-96CF-BFA7F2F8EE3E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/411795/jindal_doesn_t_levitate_to_the_occasion?rel=emailNation" href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/411795/jindal_doesn_t_levitate_to_the_occasion?rel=emailNation" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thenation.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/411795/jindal_doesn_t_levitate_to_the_occasion?rel=emailNation"><H1 class="main title"> Jindal Doesn't Levitate to the Occasion </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/411795/jindal_doesn_t_levitate_to_the_occasion?rel=emailNation"><P> The Louisiana <A href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/fernandes" linkindex="37">boy wonder</A> has always been an eccentric fellow, converting from Hinduism to Catholicism in high school, changing his name from Piyush to Bobby and reportedly participating in an <A href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/bobby_jindals_dance_with_the_d.php" linkindex="38">exorcism</A> in college (at Brown, no less!). He's signed legislation as Governor of Louisiana to chemically <A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/26/louisiana-gov-jindal-auth_n_109342.html" linkindex="39">castrate sex offenders</A> and recently refused to accept extended <A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/20/jindal-unemployed/" linkindex="40" set="yes">unemployment benefits</A> for his economically depressed state as part of the stimulus. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/411795/jindal_doesn_t_levitate_to_the_occasion?rel=emailNation"><P> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/411795/jindal_doesn_t_levitate_to_the_occasion?rel=emailNation">Jindal's entire speech revolved around the idea that Americans couldn't rely on the government to solve their problems, trotting out a fancy bit of revisionist history about Hurricane Katrina to prove his point.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/411795/jindal_doesn_t_levitate_to_the_occasion?rel=emailNation">Katrina was evidence of what happens when you appoint unqualified cronies to key government positions </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A4C24C09-4CB4-4167-96CF-BFA7F2F8EE3E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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