“Pre-existing condition”? Is it just me or is this absolutely cringeworthy? I mean, I really don’t like Jindal.
But this is awful.
10:26 PM … Is he going to talk about his work as an exorcist?
10:28 PM … Katrina as metaphor for opposing the Stimulus Bill. Not happening for me.
10:28 PM … Raising taxes? Isn’t the bill like 40% tax cuts?
10:30 PM … I think this is the new angle … referring to ‘magnetic levitation’ like it’s some sort weird thing you do at a commune. I guess it’s funny not to understand that really fast trains don’t all run on diesel.
As I said, I thought Jindal’s comments and presentation was just weird and cringy and awful. But I’m told by multiple readers that David Brooks totally unloaded on Jindal’s speech on PBS. We’ll try to track down more details.
Late Update: Jonathan Singer has some more details at MyDD.
Reactions from various members of Congress.
CBS also has an initial reaction poll. (Unfortunately, their site seems to have crashed, at least for now. Thought that only happened to us.)
And you know it’s bad when the folks at Fox think Jindal blew it.
CNN also has a reax poll.
For years I’ve been saying that the Duke Cunningham story reached much further than people understood into the black intel budgets where all sorts of thievery is possible because no one is scrutinizing the budgeting. Tonight, Marcus Stern, the reporter who originally broke the Cunningham story, and now works at ProPublica, unearths a big treasure trove of documents related to the crimes of Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the former #3 at the CIA, a key player in the scandal who is about to be sentenced.
We’ll be digging into the documents tomorrow to see what we can find.
But take a look now and email us the good stuff you find.
Maybe the third time will be the charm? Obama introduces Bill Richardson Judd Gregg former Washington Gov. Gary Locke as his nominee for Commerce Secretary. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
A lot of the discussion about the daily new deals offered the big banks has gone to the fate of the shareholders and other financial stakeholders in these institutions. But as the amount of equity for the shareholders approaches zero in the more recent deals (the new one for Citi being a prime example), what’s becoming obvious in a number of these cases is that all the management is really holding on for are their jobs.
TPM Reader BW:
I have always been skeptical of the talk of a post-racial America but when Bobby Jindal spoke and the immediate outpouring of commentary was to compare him to perhaps the single whitest character in America (Kenneth the Page),
the country was clearly seeing past skin color.If the lesson is that people really are being judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, the Jindal verdict cannot possibly bode well for Republicans.