Laughing at the GOP

In an otherwise stressful week, Bobby Jindal's performance (?) made it aaallll beddah. His train wreck response to President Obama’s brilliant speech the other night was a magical elixir of sorts that had me doubled over in belly laughs – after the initial shock, of course.

I couldn’t believe his mincing, bouncy entrance and facial expression. Only thing missing was the beany with propeller. Then when he opened his mouth it was as if he was talking in front of a class of fourth graders. When I realized he was dead serious everything – including his use of Katrina as a positive for the GOP – I lost it.

Talking with a friend in NOLA yesterday was great fun. We kicked little Bobby from here into next week. He explained that Rhodes scholar “Piyush” Bobby Jindal had to dumb himself down to reach the GOP base. He was doing the best he could under those conditions. He’s no redneck southerner and it can’t be easy being that evil and stupid. I pointed out that poor Piyush couldn’t act like a Cajun because he hates getting all sweaty and he would be gator bait if he went into bayou country. And his scrawny ass would be no more than a snack at that. That’s why half the Cajun population have no idea who he is.

I mentioned that Jindal probably would have sounded Rhodes-like had he been responding to a speech by the shrub, and we laughed some more.

After about a half hour of laughing so hard with tears in my eyes my face hurt, he ended our conversation with the comment that some southerners can be intelligent and electable – like Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter - but most are just Richard Shelby and Phil Graham stupid. I’ll drink to that.

It was good to laugh after such a week. I enjoyed two glasses of wine with dinner and watched a couple of documentaries on Science Channel before hitting the sack. Fortunately, I didn’t have to work today as I slept until 6:30 am, unheard of for me. The sun woke me up, which was a pleasant surprise since it was supposed to rain all day. I grabbed a coffee and sat on the deck for a while. Yes, it was that warm – about 58’F and getting up to the mid-sixties by afternoon. That’s likely when the rain will arrive. (sigh!)

Update: And this just in -

BATON ROUGE -- After giving one of the biggest speeches in his time as a politician, Gov. Bobby Jindal is heading to Disney World.

Jindal's office says the governor and his family leave for the Orlando vacation resort today.

The vacation comes one day after Jindal gave his first televised speech to the nation, offering the Republican Party's response to President Barack Obama's address to Congress.

Rather than face the music now and get it over with, he skips out for a vacation? Does he think this is going away and we'll all forget about it? Will someone tell ALL politicians that this kind of behavior is no longer tolerated in the age of YouTube.

More later.

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