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The sight of a grown man, Rhodes Scholar, Governor, married man,
prancing
was just disturbing in some subconscious way.



I thought you stood in solidarity with your prancing male brothers.
Why
the
backlash this time?

One of the most interesting facts in the piece, titled "Bobby Jindal's
Secret Past," was that Jindal said he witnessed, and then haltingly
participated in, the exorcism of his very close friend (a woman named
Susan)
when he was in college.

(It should be noted that other bloggers have been making hay of this
fact
for a while.)

In 1994 Jindal penned a piece for the New Oxford Review, under the
title
"Beating a Demon: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare," in which
he
recounted what happened.




http://blow.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...st-pro-or-con/



After seeing the performance of Jindal following Obama's speech to
congress
even republicans are saying "next". Apparently, after seeing Jindal's
speech
they will continue to look for someone to lead the party. Right now
they
have no one with any kind of leadership except for Limbaugh, and he's
stepping up and taking it. His speech at CPAC was supposed to be 20
minutes
but went on for an hour and a half. It's clear that he's about the only
republican that any of them wants to follow. Sara Palin is a distant
second.
So there you have it. The republicans have fallen so far that all that
is
left is a hard core of die hards that worship Limbaugh. What a party.
No
wonder they are so small now. Only the kooks and nuts are left. So much
for
Karl Rove's permanent majority.


There is always Jeb.

JC

Here's another tidbit about Jindal that I didn't realize. It's in Frank
Rich's column today:

"Listening to Jindal talk Tuesday night about his immigrant father's
inability to pay for an obstetrician, you'd never guess that at the time
his father was an engineer and his mother an L.S.U. doctoral candidate in
nuclear physics."

From the way Jindal described it, I thought maybe they were pedicab
drivers.

I almost sent you a link to that but you mentioned that you follow Rich
regularly.
Pretty tough piece.

Jindal looked a lot like Bill Clinton in '88 to me until I started digging
a little, and I do mean just a little.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Jeb Bush emerge after the mid terms.

No way, IMO. The Bush name is screwed for a generation. Unless the whole
country collapses in the meantime, I don't think Jeb would make it through
the Iowa caucuses.

Too bad; he probably would have been the best White House lawn ornament in
the family.


LOL
Have a look at Dowd's bit if you haven't.
She's amusing as hell.

JC

Always. Sometimes silly, but always amusing. She's really got it in for
those bankers lately, too.

--
Ed Huntress