I see I was not to be totally disappointed in wanting my fix of Bobby Jindal. He appeared at a fundraiser last night during President Obama’s press conference. And his choice of topic seemed well-suited to the GOP’s new Rush Limbaugh era. The self-consciously intellectual Jindal set for himself the task of providing the intellectual justification for wanting the president to fail.
Jindal described the premise of the question — “Do you want the president to fail?” — as the “latest gotcha game” being perpetrated by Democrats against Republicans.
“Make no mistake: Anything other than an immediate and compliant, ‘Why no sir, I don’t want the president to fail,’ is treated as some sort of act of treason, civil disobedience or political obstructionism,” Jindal said at a political fundraiser attended by 1,200 people. “This is political correctness run amok.”
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“My answer to the question is very simple: ‘Do you want the president to fail?’ It depends on what he is trying to do.”
