brooks on jindal

David Brooks, speaking on TV, despairs of the Republican response to the current crisis, as embodied by Jindal's infomercial last night:

You know, I think Bobby Jindal is a very promising politician, and I oppose the stimulus because I thought it was poorly drafted. But to come up at this moment in history with a stale "government is the problem," "we can't trust the federal government" - it's just a disaster for the Republican Party. The country is in a panic right now. They may not like the way the Democrats have passed the stimulus bill, but that idea that we're just gonna - that government is going to have no role, the federal government has no role in this, that - In a moment when only the federal government is actually big enough to do stuff, to just ignore all that and just say "government is the problem, corruption, earmarks, wasteful spending," it's just a form of nihilism.

Comments

[ogilvy]

hey bobby - the prez has his sights in the rear view mirror and sees your GTO blowing black smoke - time to put the pedal to the metal 'cause there ain't much room ahead we got to git while the gittin's good - ramp up and bring home all the bacon at once - healthcare energy education climate now is the time to use the 'big mo' as dubja's pappy put it - and bobby - really - where you get that babytalk? oxfuhd? who you talkin' to? les haricots n'est pas sale - not since katrina anyway!