I’m educated on this issue. I’m in Louisiana. I’m disappointed that he won’t veto the bill but I’m certainly not going to throw him under the bus on this one issue. I’m disappointed but let’s see what he does over the long term before we call him all kinds of names.
that’s fine, we disagree, no problem with that. At least you know something about it. When people chime in that this is no big deal without even knowing what the issue is, that’s pretty stupid.
What struck me was the “...let them govern themselves.” They should be governed by the people.
Our country is disintegrating, agonizingly slow. I say we pull a “Wyatt’s Torch” and start over. OBAMA for prez. (I will throw up later.) He is the most likely to disintegrate this country faster. McCain would bleed us to death with a thousand needles. Obama is the chainsaw to McCain’s needles. VP choices don’t really matter anymore.
America was created as a constitutional republic. That does not exist anymore. I am deeply saddened. (seriously)
I haven't lost all faith in Jindal, but he's definitely disappointed so far. He can still salvage himself if his plan works.
I think his plan is to let the legislature have their exorbitant, unearned pay raises, and then he'll have a pliant group who will vote for all of his reforms.
One problem with this plan is that a huge part of reforming the state should involve cutting taxes and shrinking government and I'm not so sure that these legislators will always go along with that, even if they did get their pay raise. When the time comes to cut Department X which has a lot of employees in Senator Y's district, he'll still go against the cut, in spite of the pay raise.
We'll see. I give Jindal a better than even chance of pulling this off and rehabilitating his image in the state, but I don't think it had to come to this. I think he would have done better to have stood firm against a huge pay raise from the beginning and let the pols feel the citizens' wrath. He just didn't expect such an enormous outcry of fury from the voters.
Another thing I heard on the radio is that during the campaign, Jindal pledged to fight any pay raises that would take effect before the next session. He's not doing that.
We'll see what happens, but he's lost the voters' goodwill and now looks very weak.
Thanks for a common sense comment. I really hate it when the Freepers get the vapors over one issue.