Jindal: Let's Make Congress a Part-Time Gig

I like the sound of that.

Any idea that limits Democrats' opportunities to continue spending our nation into oblivion is at least worth exploring.

However, I'm not so sure about Jindal's proposal for a balanced budget amendment. It's a nice theory and all, but in reality politicians would just continue to spend, create new entitlements, etc. and then cite the amendment as justification for tax increases. That's probably not Jindal's intent, but that is how it would play out.

A better idea would be to limit spending to a fixed percentage of the GDP.



Via Human Events. Cross posted.

Memo to Chocolate City: Try Being Prepared This Time

The media and Democrats have shamelessly milked the astonishing lack of preparedness prior to Hurricane Katrina and pretended the whole thing was George W. Bush's fault.

Well, you're on notice, folks. If you're told to leave again, get out. Otherwise, I don't want to hear any whining.

"We know it's going to head into the Gulf. After that, we're not sure where it's heading," said Rebecca Waddington, a meteorologist at the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. "For that reason, everyone in Gulf needs to be monitoring the storm. At that point, we're expecting it to be a Category 3 hurricane."

The tentative forecast track pointed Wednesday toward Louisiana and Mississippi, which took the brunt of Hurricane Katrina three years ago Friday. But the average error in five-day forecasts is about 310 miles (500 kms) in either direction, meaning the likeliest targets could be anywhere from south Texas to the Florida panhandle.

The Army Corps of Engineers is looking to guard the West bank levees.

Fortunately, Louisiana now has a competent Governor in Bobby Jindal. Unfortunately that moron Ray Nagin is still in charge of New Orleans.

Sanity Reigns in Louisiana

As we noted Friday, it appears intelligence has crept back into Louisiana politics.

It's Governor-Elect Bobby Jindal

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal has won the governor's race in Louisiana. He carried more than half the vote against 11 opponents to become the state's first non-white governor since Reconstruction.

He told supporters to give Louisiana a fresh start. Later, he said his parents came to this country for the American Dream, and found it alive and well in Louisiana. Jindal revisited a campaign theme, pledging to fight corruption and rid the state of those "feeding at the public trough."

Let's watch and see how little attention this gets from the national media.

Doesn't appear to be getting all that much web coverage.

More from Bryan at Hot Air.

Signs of Intelligent Life in Louisiana

For all they've been through, it appears sanity may reign and the people of Louisiana will get a competent governor.

BATON ROUGE, La. - Four years after he lost a heated battle for governor, Rep. Bobby Jindal is well ahead of the pack in a repeat run that carries a different kind of drama: Can he get enough votes to win outright and avoid a runoff?

If he gets more than 50 percent of the vote in Saturday's primary, the 36-year-old, Oxford-educated son of Indian immigrants will become Louisiana's first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction and the youngest U.S. governor in office.

The Republican's prospects have brightened thanks to three years of congressional experience, a splintered Democratic field and an incumbent whose political fortunes were done in by Hurricane Katrina.

Polls have shown Jindal has the support of nearly half the state's voters, and no one else is even close in the field of a dozen candidates.

"I personally think that Bobby Jindal will take it in the first round," said Pearson Cross, a University of Louisiana at Lafayette political scientist.

Under Louisiana's open primary system, all candidates for governor are running against each other, regardless of party.

Jindal lost to Democrat Kathleen Blanco in 2003, garnering 48 percent of the vote, but has run as a sort of quasi-incumbent since the governor ended her re-election bid earlier this year. Blanco has been sharply criticized for the state's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the recovery effort will remain a central issue for her successor.

Louisiana Governor Blanco Will Not Seek Reelection

One term was more than enough for this nitwit.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, whose popularity plummeted after two hurricanes devastated south Louisiana less than halfway through her first term, will not seek re-election, according to a letter written by Blanco and obtained by The Associated Press.

"Today, I am announcing that, after much thought and prayer, I have decided not to seek re-election as your governor," Blanco said in the letter, provided by a source in the Democratic party.

Elected Louisiana's first woman governor in 2003, Blanco, a Democrat from Louisiana's Cajun country, had already drawn a half dozen challengers for this fall's election, including popular Republican U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, whom she defeated the last time out with 52 percent of the vote. Former U.S. Sen. John Breaux, a popular Democrat, has said he will decide soon whether to enter the race.

More at Hot Air, Ace of Spades, Right Voices, Michelle Malkin.