What else to say, a very strong performance. Concise, clear, occasionally funny. And I think it would hold up reasonably well as prose. It would be funny, perhaps surreal, certainly not very credible how many simultaneous crises this guy has on his plate at the moment, if we weren’t actually living through it — and on the line for all the consequences. But his command of the situation seems remarkable. As I said in one of the liveblog posts, you can see in the reflection how and why the GOP is undergoing a collective nervous breakdown.
Guess the teleprompter thing hasn’t panned out.
Late Snark: I waited through this whole thing and I don’t get to hear Jindal’s response?