Just out from the Times-Picayune …

Louisiana’s transportation department plans to request federal dollars for a New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger rail service from the same pot of railroad money in the president’s economic stimulus package that Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized as unnecessary pork on national television Tuesday night.

With Jindal and Steele heading up the GOP, how long can Obama hope to remain president?

Highlights from President Obama’s speech today at Camp Lejeune, N.C., announcing his plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq:

Bobby Jindal’s people have been spinning the Katrina story very hard all day. It’s been pretty amusing to watch. Zack Roth deciphers the up-is-downism emanating from Camp Jindal.