Bobby Jindal Lashes Out at Obama: "Our People Don't Want a BP Check – We Want to Go Back to Work!" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, July 22, 2010, 3:12 PM
Governor Bobby Jindal blasted the Obama Administration yesterday on their deepwater drilling ban that is killing thousands of jobs in Louisiana.
Governor Bobby Jindal lashed out at Washington over the federal ban on deepwater drilling yesterday.
CNN Money reported:
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal railed against the federal ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at a rally on Wednesday, saying the “arbitrary moratorium” could cost the region hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Speaking at an “Economic Survival Rally” in Lafayette, Jindal called on the Obama Administration to end the ban on drilling for oil and natural gas in more than 500 feet of water, which was instituted earlier this year in response to a devastating oil spill in the Gulf.
“The folks in Washington just don’t seem to understand that you can’t just turn a switch on and off with these rigs,” Jindal said. “When they leave our coast to produce oil in other parts of the country or the world, the jobs that support them go too.”
Jindal said the freeze on deepwater activity could cost Louisiana 20,000 jobs over 12 to 18 months. Lost wages for those jobs could be as high as $5 to $10 million per month, per rig, according to the governor’s office.
The comments came days after the Interior Department issued the first permit for drilling in shallow water, less than 500 feet, under a new set of safety and environmental regulations.
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Chisum commented:
Obama, Are You Listening?
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Priorities: Obama Calls Shirley Sherrod within HOURS; Meets with BP 2 MONTHS Later
http://rightwingnews.com/2010/07/priorities-obama-calls-shirley-sherrod-within-hours-meets-with-bp-2-months-later/
Granny commented:
Right on Bobby! I hope we’re going to see him on the national ticket in ’12. Bobby is as bright as a button and really understands the people. And before somebody jumps in here with “not natural born” – oh YES he is. His parents are immigrants, but Bobby Jindal was born in the great state of Louisiana.
aro5o75 commented:
Mr Governor, that statement is really going to confuse Obowma.
His whole life has been about entitlements, the concept of personal resposibility is completely over his head.
Wading Across commented:
Bobby Jindal’s political capital rises in exact proportion to Obama’s decline.
Come on 2012!
Peggy commented:
Go, Bobby, Go! He was mis-underestimated last year.
Karen commented:
This is the mentality we are fighting: that receiving a check from “Obama’s Stash” is NOT WHAT MOST NORMAL PEOPLE WANT. We want JOBS. If he can’t get that through his thick, communist head, he needs to be run out of office!
victoria_29 commented:
Thank you Gov Jindal for speaking for all Americans. obama seems to think everyone is like his robots and wants someone to take care of him. Guess since he has never had a real job he can’t understand people wanting to work.
If Jindal could keep this kind of passion up he would be a contender in 2012, that Republican response to obama he gave & its weakness sunk him previously.
Kevin P commented:
There’s more American Spirit in Bobby Jindahl’s toenail clippings than there is in ObowMao’s entire being.
Kevin P commented:
Chisum # 1
Priorities: Obama Calls Shirley Sherrod within HOURS; Meets with BP 2 MONTHS Later
That’s because his Community Organizer experience only prepared him for one of the two tasks.
Chisum commented:
Victoria 29,
I like your website.
befuddled commented:
dude, where’s my sweet social injustice check the government promised me?
Kirstin commented:
Well done, Governor!
But actually, he needs to be even more firm and fearless in both speech and actions. And he needs more help from other Gulf governors.
Militant Conservative commented:
Bobby, your under the misguided notion that the president WANTS the country to heal and recover from this disaster/recession. He does not. Hate and discontent is his goal and the distruction of the American economy for his own personal gain. No more no less.
Hes a selfish lil prick.
befuddled commented:
too funny but true chisum. beer summit with tag along huge press coverage within a week. cheap shots and lawsuits against arizona’s immigration stance within days. stopping an ecological disaster or unemployment crisis obama votes present. if nice words and a eerie smile, backroom deals, trial lawyers,or union goons can’t fix the problem than the problem gets passed along to a newly appointed czar or committee to study the matter–problem solved.
Hater Obummer commented:
Bobby Jindal You are not black, you are indian. You must suffer and die. If I do this to you, it gives the signal to other blacks of a wrong signal. I do not accept Indian people. Get it you piece of c**p. My name is Obummer the Hussein & Allah bowing supreme world leader. I do as i please. If you do not like it , then die.
Chisum commented:
Jindal just announced a state of emergency in anticipation of the upcoming hurricane.
IamOverit commented:
I have been so naive, like many of my fellow patriots, and had too much faith in our government to think that communists would ever be a threat. Silly me. In my gut I feel we are reaching an apex that is going to result in violence. My fear is we will not be able to undo what has been done. How will we repeal the massive legislation? Will someone out there who reads this post (and has more knowledge than I do), please tell me if it is possible to save our Republic…even if we take the House in November? Thanks.
Sojourner commented:
..oBama says he never heard Rev. JW say, “GD..America”..but it’s clear, he not only heard it, he’s executing it, State by State.Hang tough, Louisiana..Arizonans know how how you feel.
Finncrisp commented:
Bobby will have to go to the back of the line – this Shirley Sharrod Crisis is all consuming. then the Cap and Tax, Government regulated Wages in corporate America, Blah , Blah, Blah
Someone have better have secured a tee time for Barry, or he is really going to be out of sorts.
Chris Vehr commented:
Obama’s actions and comments to Governor Jindal prove that he wants us all dependent on the government. Everything Obama has done since taking office reeks of it.
UncleZeb commented:
The question should be…..
“America, are you listening?”
ken commented:
Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
I’m a native Louisianian…
Jindal is NOT the “golden boy” you think he is.
He has really screwed up Louisiana in ways you outsiders will never know.
Every state agency that “at one time helped the constituents” now doesn’t even take their phone calls.
He is our “local obama”. He said he was going to shrink our budget, uh-huh, increased it by a three billion dollars.
Then started cutting programs set up to help our people. Cut ever budget in the state EXCEPT HIS TRAVEL EXPENSE BUDGET.
No agency in the state has the finances to do the necessary travel to perform their duties but, dear ole Bobby can travel to every state in this union (on the Louisiana taxpayer expense) CAMPAIGNING.
Vote out All Dems! commented:
Obama is unquestionably the worst president in American history. Every single democrat must be defeated in the coming elections – at all levels, from dog-catcher to Senator. Only then will the democratic party be forced to purge themselves of the rigid ideologues that have taken over, and done such damage to the party and the country.
It will take decades to recover from the damage caused by Obama’s incompetence and radicalism.
Greg commented:
Don’t mind Ken he is still reading from his Journolist e-mails that instructe him in what to say. I too am a La state native and What Ken represents is blatently dishonest
bg commented:
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God Bless You Mr. Jindal!!
ken @ 5:30 pm #25
Poll: Louisiana Loves Bobby Jindal — And Offshore Drilling
uhmmm, it’s obvious Jindal has his detractors (or they could just be Obots doing their shtick) , but the majority agree Mr. Jindal is doing a great job!!
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bg commented:
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Greg @ 5:48 pm #27
re: [Don’t mind Ken he is still reading from his
Journolist e-mails that instructe him in what to say. ]
LOL!!
ken obvious believes opinions are facts..
aah well..
“one can lead a fiberal to knowledge,
but one cannot make a fiberal think”
- bg
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Kevin W. commented:
Like many of you I can see Jindal being a front runner for the Republicans in 2012.
How does Jindal/Rubio 2012 sound?
pm commented:
This is the Bobby Jindal I love.
But I hate to disagree with him: Team BO knows very well that the rigs will be gone for a long, long time — that was the purpose of the moratorium.
A vast number of unemployed Americans works for them.
Granny commented:
Ken, you’ll have to come up with a little more substance than mere allegations. I’ve been watching Jindall for quite some time now – since before the ’08 elections – and nearly every time I’ve heard of him he is right there in Louisiana doing what a governor is supposed to do, not globe-trotting the world on the taxpayer’s dime or throwing one party for every three days he has held office. I’ve also not heard of any abandoned fleets of school buses under Jindal’s watch, BTW. . .
bg commented:
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pm @ 6:34 pm #31
sounds good to me..
then again, any other names aside from
those of entrenched incumbents does..
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DRI commented:
Where is Piyush Jindal’s birth certificate? I believe he was born in India.
StrngernFiction commented:
IamOverit,
I have followed politics pretty closely my entire life and I have to be honest with you. Rationally speaking things just don’t look good. That is just my opinion based on what I’ve observed. Best case scenario it seems to me is that things are going to have to get A LOT worse before they get better. I think Americans in general are just that lost.
BUT, that being said I believe it our duty to fight and let the chips fall where they may. And regardless of what one might think is going to happen to this country based on forces outside of any one persons control, doing what we can to try and save this country is what matters. It’s like the saying goes, “it’s the journey that matters.”
DocScience commented:
Obama’s “let them eat cake” moment.
To him, lawsuits, extorted payments, welfare, unemployment are all the equivalent of honest work.
Seldom do you get such a clear view into the darkness.
bg commented:
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DRI @ 7:12 pm #34
no, Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana..
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bg commented:
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StrngernFiction @ 7:53 pm #35
Amen..
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GGMac commented:
Granny, at #2
There is much about Bobby Jindal that makes him fine presidential material, and it would indeed be a gain for conservatives and the country for him to be qualified to run. However – if his parents had not yet become American citizens at the time of his Lousiana birth, he isn’t a natural born citizen.
The ‘natural born’ qualifying requirement is that both parents must be American citizens.
That requirement was the Founder’s best protection against having a president with divided loyalties.
Obama is a case in point: his mother was an American citizen, but his father was not. His father wasn’t even an immigrant; he was here merely to attend college. His intention was to do exactly what he did: expand his communist- geared education and take what he’d learned back to Kenya to be a part of the post-Mau Mau communist government there.
Because Kenya in 1961 was a British colony, Obama’s father was a British subject/citizen and as such was governed by the British Nationality Act of 1948, as were any children born to him. His children – no matter where or under what circumstances – were born British subjects, under the jurisdiction of the Crown. That included his son born to Stanley Ann Dunham Obama: Barack, jr was born half American citizen, half British subject. Automatically NOT natural born.
We see every day the effects of Obama’s divided loyalty: he shows no love for the country we cherish, and he shows no concern for any of us. Every day we see in him all of the negative characteristics and behaviors the Founders feared would become evident if a president were to have divided loyalties. We have a president who disdains putting his hand over his heart during our national anthem. We have a president who consistantly sneers at and belittles the citizens of whom he should be in awe. We have a president who is UN-American.
I sure do hope Jindal is qualified – there is a dearth of really good potential candidates. If he’s not qualified, it’d be an unfortunate loss – but it is what it is, and it would be folly to amend the Constitution to allow a favorite person to run. To do so would mean that the next time around someone such as George Soros could run. The Founders truly knew what they were doing.
Joanne commented:
Granny, natural born means his parents would have to be both U.S. citizens, not that Jindal himself was born in America.
Joanne commented:
Same as #39. Jindal would not be eligible, just like Obama is not eligible and is a usurper.
ken commented:
Greg, I’llbet you think Landrieu thinks of LA intersts first also. If so, why would she vote for the health care obamanation when we have socialized health care in LA already, thanks to the Long aministration. You should go back to jr high and learn LA history.
You don’t think there is any support to my claims, okay try 1-866 7893-55667. Try to file an unemployment claim. Then you’ll see how the Jindall system works.This is only one example, if you are that simple minded we can continue one agency after the other. I assure you, you don;t know what you are talking about.
Granny, as they say, ” I could write volumes about what they don’t tell you.” I bet you watch the View and think Obama is doing a great job also.
ken commented:
Correct UI Claim # 1 866 783-5567 (damn cat)
neomom commented:
Ken, how about getting a job and not worrying about UI. I here BP is hiring on the coast for oil cleanup. Of course the check you get from the center for American Progress probably disqualifies you from that.
Chisum commented:
Too Many Have Forgotten The Meaning Of ‘Disgrace’
Here’s Greenwald on the subject of Obama’s excuses:
Imagine a man who is up for a sales job at a company in crisis. He tells his prospective boss that not only will he rescue sales but he’ll also lower costs, turn out a better product, get the competition to cooperate instead of compete, raise wages, improve the food in the company commissary, and redecorate the offices to boot. This man then gets hired. For a year, sales continue to lag, and everything else stays the same. The new employee explains that the guy who used to have his job left behind an unconscionable mess, which has made it very hard to do the things he had promised in the interview phase. After a year and a half, sales hit an historic low, the product is being recalled, competitors have formed a guild and are pulling ahead, everyone at the company has taken a salary hit, a few people have gotten food poisoning in the commissary, and the offices are more dilapidated than ever. On top of that, vendors can’t get him on the phone, he’s insulted his co-workers, and he’s taken more vacation time than the company allows. The boss finally asks him what’s gone wrong. “I could never have lived up to your expectations,” the man says.
http://cartagodelenda.blogspot.com/2010/07/too-many-have-forgotten-meaning-of.html
Chkn Fryd commented:
HA! When Gubnor’ Bobby wants to put everyone back to work I’ll sign up for his plan. But the areas which didn’t leverage their tax base and employment base to just one industry (petrol exploration & production is 16% of the LA economy) are still losing jobs, still losing income, as a result of what happend in the oil patch even though they don’t work in the oil patch. So when industries like fishing and hospitality sign off on big oil costing them their jobs, their income, and they are fine with it, I’m fine with it. Meanwhile, the industry who made the mess cost their own people their jobs, and ruined the lives of innocent, hard working, decent Americans. In capitalism actions have consequences — this one of them: if you don’t care enough about your own employees to protect their futures, why should I? BP ran extra risks by cutting extra costs, now their employees, and those of eveyone else on the Gulf Coast are paying the price. And you’re worried about the unfairness to oil workers? You want to put good people back at good jobs; fine — then subsidize or deregulate all of them going back to work. We need jobs more than we need safe workplaces, safe food, and a clean bed for the night, right? I mean the rigs MAY be safe, the seafood MAY be contaminated, and since housekeeping was all fired two months ago, who knows how many bedbug bites you MAY get on that romantic get away down the coast. But these are the sacrifices we have to make to keep Americans on the job!
Think of it this way folks, you want to fire eveyone in big government because if only those employees had been more responsible on the job, things wouldn’t be as bad as they are here for the rest of us. But if I repeat the last sentence and replace “big government” with “big oil”, now you see exactly where I think you’re coming from and why I won’t give a free pass to those whom you would otherwise consider just as culpable. I know, I know; it doesn’t make sense to me either, but it’s YOUR sophistry.
And before everyone flakes out with “it’s too wordy,” “it’s too complicated,” “it’s too preachy,” let me say: buckle up, suck it up, and quit bellyaching already. You could be a fisherman working on an oil rig whose wife is about to lose her beachfront hotel because the oil is driving guests away. How’d you like to be sitting at their dinner table? You think OUR conversations lively?
How about “What happens in the oil patch, stays in the oil patch?” Too late; there’s nothing but crickets checking into the Biloxi Holiday Inn Surfside.
Chisum commented:
Chkn FrydNo Gravatar
July 22nd, 2010 | 11:23 pm | #47
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I think I finally figured out where Crispy Critter came from.
Babblelonia.
Old One commented:
I see that ken has a sock puppet Chkn Fryd. Tell Georgie Soros you do your best trolling from your mommie’s basement between porno sessions.
Next troll post clean your screen. Georgie and his bots do not like incoherence.
AuntieMadder commented:
Bobby Jindal Lashes Out at Obama: “Our People Don’t Want a BP Check – We Want to Go Back to Work!”
By “our people” he means Asian-Americans.
Just kidding!
AuntieMadder commented:
Old One
July 23rd, 2010 | 12:09 am | #49
I see that ken has a sock puppet Chkn Fryd. Tell Georgie Soros you do your best trolling from your mommie’s basement between porno sessions. Next troll post clean your screen. Georgie and his bots do not like incoherence.
Demand he throw in an unlimited supply of Cheetos and Hot Pockets, too. Georgie can afford it.