WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Saturday night accused President Barack Obama and other Democrats of waging wars against religious liberty and education and said that a rebellion is brewing in the U.S. with people ready for “a hostile takeover” of the nation’s capital.
Jindal spoke at the annual conference hosted by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group led by longtime Christian activist Ralph Reed. Organizers said more than 1,000 evangelical leaders attended the three-day gathering. Republican officials across the political spectrum concede that evangelical voters continue to play a critical role in GOP politics.
“I can sense right now a rebellion brewing amongst these United States,” Jindal said, “where people are ready for a hostile takeover of Washington, D.C., to preserve the American Dream for our children and grandchildren.”
The governor said there was a “silent war” on religious liberty being fought in the U.S. — a country that he said was built on that liberty.
“I am tired of the left. They say they’re for tolerance, they say they respect diversity. The reality is this: They respect everybody unless you happen to disagree with them,” he said. “The left is trying to silence us and I’m tired of it, I won’t take it anymore.”
Earlier this week, Jindal signed an executive order to block the use of tests tied to Common Core education standards in his state, a position favored by tea party supporters and conservatives. He said he would continue to fight against the administration’s attempts to implement Common Core.
“The federal government has no role, no right and no place dictating standards in our local schools across these 50 states of the United States of America,” Jindal said.
Jindal used humor in criticizing the Obama administration on several fronts, referencing the Bergdahl prisoner exchange and the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
“Are we witnessing right now the most radically, extremely liberal, ideological president of our entire lifetime right here in the United States of America, or are we witnessing the most incompetent president of the United States of America in the history of our lifetimes? You know, it is a difficult question,” he said. “I’ve thought long and hard about it. Here’s the only answer I’ve come up with, and I’m going to quote Secretary Clinton: ‘What difference does it make?'”
The conference featured most of the well-known Republicans considering a 2016 presidential run, including Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. Jindal is expected to announce after the November midterm elections whether or not he will launch a presidential bid.
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Do something about it then, Piyush.
We’re waiting.
Piyush is trying to position himself as the manly, macho, Christofascist candidate for POTUS.
It may work, too…after a fashion. With that kind of phony tough talk, he could develop a following among angry, 70-plus White guys, and Christian college men who secretly beat off to Ted Nugget.
I used to work for a company that had a policy: " Anyone found to be a member of an organization espousing the over throw of the American government will be fired". Of course they were talking about communists.
Isn’t that the “pot calling the kettle black?” The major difference is that the left respects and is inclusive of ALL religions where the right seems to think only christianity deserves respect to the exclusion of all others. Then they have the gall to say the left is “waging wars against religious liberty and education…” If the right had its way, only white christian males would be deserving of our country’s benefits. I can’t believe the republican party has fallen to the utter depths of hate, exclusion and self-righteousness.
He was speaking to evangelical leaders. I suspect their fear of Common Core is because it might require teaching of actual earth science and actual biological science and actual paleontology etc., and no doubt covers other world religions in social studies classes without telling students they all condemn their followers to the eternal fires of hell. Not sure, but I believe Pyush was originally in favor of Common Core.
I’d like to see some reporter look up some of his fellow students at Oxford. The colleges there are all about critical thinking (and drinking English beer in the pubs). They have a street named Logic Lane. Was he the laughing stock of the class?