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Today, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal put out an op-ed piece touting Louisiana’s economic gains in an otherwise-rough year...

What's the hottest ticket in the nation's capital? An engraved invitation to Tuesday's White House state dinner, the first hosted by President Obama. He and the first lady will honor India's prime minister. But in a departure from the traditional venue -- the elegant State Dining Room -- the Obamas will gather with a few hundred VIPs in a huge, heated tent on the South Lawn. The guest list for the black-tie gala remains a closely guarded secret. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, will certainly be there. Several notables are good bets, such as Oprah Winfrey and...

<p>With America’s first ever black president, there’s hope for ethnic minorities in the US to step forward. Bobby Jindal is one such man – the present governor of Louisiana is the youngest in the country and won with 88% votes. Bobby Jindal was touted to be John McCain’s running mate, before the position was taken by Sarah Palin (was it his dark skin? or did he turn down Mccain’s propsal?). Anyway, that has changed.</p>

Here is video of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on with Sean Hannity tonight where he said he believes the Governors races in Virginia and New Jersey this November will be a bellweather for the 2010 Congressional elections. Jindal said, "People have had enough." Jindal believes that many in the Republican Party have learned their lesson and are coming back to the conservative principles that can build a great party. This after the party really strayed from those principles when in the majority. . . . (VIDEO)

Here is video of the classy Obama Town Hall Crowd in New Orleans today booing Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal after President Obama announced him. Obama quieted the crowd by saying, "Bobby's doing a good job," and he joked to Jindal, "I get that all the time." . . . (VIDEO)

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal traveled to a Houston suburb Thursday night to raise money for his 2011 re-election campaign, according to his staff. The event in Katy, Texas, continued a string of out-of-state fundraisers for Jindal, who has traveled from coast to coast collecting money despite having no announced opponents. Jindal also has raised money for Republican political candidates.

BATON ROUGE - Governor Bobby Jindal has issued an executive order cutting off current and future state funding to ACORN following a series of incidents captured on videotape and the subpoena of documents from the group’s national headquarters in New Orleans by the state attorney general's office. The executive order states that, “ACORN’s actions make clear that financial involvement with ACORN is contrary to the public policy of the State of Louisiana and the best interests of its citizens.” The order prohibits all state agencies from entering into future contracts with ACORN or its subsidiaries and directs the agencies to...

ST. AMANT -- After a disastrous speech to the country in February, followed by a spring lawmaking session dominated by budget battles, Gov. Bobby Jindal in recent weeks has resumed the peripatetic campaign-style pace that has been a source of both political strength and fodder for his harshest critics. A 64-parish, statewide "working tour" across Louisiana featuring campaign-like speeches and check-signing ceremonies is reintroducing Jindal to home-state voters who, according to a recent poll, have grown less enamored with the man they elected in 2007 and are wary of his apparent national ambitions. The tour also comes as Jindal is...

Here is video of Gov. Bobby Jindal today talking with Neil Cavuto about the Democrats' Health Care Bill and word out this afternoon that four of seven "Blue Dog" Democrats have signed onto the bill. Reports indicate some changes have been made, including a decision to not vote on it until after the August recess, and removal of what they call the "public option." However, many believe the Democrats are simply using a sleight of hand to make the bill look different but the end result will be Government Health Care through the back door. Remember: Obama and many Dem...

Here is video of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal talking about the Government Health Care Plan being pushed by President Obama and Democrats. Jindal said that what Obama is saying is not what is being proposed in the Democrats' Bill. Jindal set forth some alternative ideas to what the Democrats are proposing. Jindal said there is no way what is being proposed won't expand the deficit. David Axelrod is on the video after Jindal and defended Obama's plan. . . . . (Watch Video)

We saw today that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi held her weekly press conference, much of which was devoted to the issue of propping up U.S. President Barack Obama’s steadily falling support as it relates to his desire that a completely new manner by which most average Americans will receive their health care in the future be passed in the Congress and put before him for his signature NOW. She of course brought with her 4 people, all of whom have suffered unfortunate medical misfortune though we don’t know their backgrounds and their individual circumstances or why they ended...

Fresh off a legislative session that he dominated, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has injected himself into the national discussion on health care, blasting the idea of a public insurance plan pushed by Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration. In an online column published today at Politico.com [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25136.html], Jindal, widely viewed as a future presidential candidate for the GOP, repeats many criticisms that Republicans and health insurance executives have leveled at Democratic plans moving through Congress. The House Democrats' version, Jindal said, would eventually run private insurance companies out of business, leaving the country with "government-run health care." "The plan the...

With his admission of an affair with a reporter from Argentina, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford became the latest in a growing list of GOP lawmakers who have confessed to infidelity. His acknowledgment of the long distance relationship cast the Governor in a negative light and not surprisingly there have been increasing calls for his resignation. Not only did Sanford leave his wife and children on Father’s Day weekend, but he also jettisoned his gubernatorial responsibilities for five days and lied to his staff about his whereabouts. These behaviors will not soon be forgotten by South Carolina voters. While he...

In a week when Washington is obsessed with the arrival of the 100-day milestone in President Barack Obama's presidency, it's easy to forget that, for the opposition Republicans, the crucial political testing ground likely doesn't lie in the nation's capital at all. Instead, it's found in cities such as this one, Louisiana's state capital, and in the hands of new leaders such as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. He speaks with the rapid-fire cadence of a man brimming with youthful confidence that he can craft a conservative alternative to the path Washington is taking to escape today's economic hurricane. Whether Mr....

BATON ROUGE -- As Gov. Bobby Jindal's profile in the Republican Party rises, so does the bill for Louisiana taxpayers. Widely considered a GOP presidential contender, Jindal insists he's only interested in re-election as governor, but he has traveled to a dozen states to collect campaign dollars and stump for himself or other Republicans. An Associated Press review shows that providing legally mandated security on such trips has cost the state treasury tens of thousands of dollars since Jindal took office in January 2008, money that has not been reimbursed by Jindal or his campaign.

People, please. Get a grip here. Palin, in her testimony yesterday, was clearing stating that it is essential for the United States to develop domestic sources of energy. She never says that global warming is man-made. She recognizes that changes are occurring in the environment, but she never says that man is to blame. She also pushed for more oil exploration. Palin is the governor of Alaska, Alaska depends on energy exports for their economic growth. Therefore, Palin is looking out for the needs of Alaskans... which is what she has always done and will continue to do. This is...

Louisiana Abortion Recovery Alliance Applauds Governor Jindal's Proclamation - Senator Crowe's ResolutionContact: Cindy Collins, Louisiana Abortion Recovery Alliance, 985-774-4610, speakhope@me.com BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 10 /Christian Newswire/ -- Governor Jindal signed a Proclamation and Louisiana Senator A.G. Crowe signed a Resolution declaring April as Abortion Recovery Awareness Month. In the Proclamation, Governor Jindal stated, "Abortion recovery programs offer invaluable services that help abortion's living victims heal through individual counseling, support groups, encouragement and education." Senator Crowe's Resolution commended many recovery programs and referenced the April 2007 Supreme Court ruling, Gonzales v. Carhart. In the ruling, Justice Kennedy stated, that abortion can cause "severe...

Gov. Bobby Jindal spoke to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) earlier this week. Here is complete video of his remarks . . . . . This is the Bobby Jindal most of us thought we would see when he delivered the response to Obama's Address to a Joint Session of Congress. Jindal's substance was great in both speeches, but his delivery is far better in this one. PART III has a great closing summation. Bobby Jindal speaking like this has a chance if he wants to run in 2012. . . . . . . (Watch Complete Video of...

Here is Gov. Bobby Jindal this morning on Fox & Friends where he explained why he is going to take some of the Economic Stimulus money, but not all of it. Jindal does not want any of the money with strings attached, money that would fund programs that would lead to Louisiana to have to raise taxes eventually to keep the funded programs going. Jindal said they are turning down $100 Million of the Stimulus program. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal asserted his conservative beliefs while dismissing complains about his public speaking skills during an appearance Thursday night on FOX News' "Hannity." Jindal, in the interview with host Sean Hannity, was responding to criticism from Democrats, as well as some fellow Republicans, over his performance last week delivering the GOP response to President Obama's first address to Congress. Political commentators, comics and bloggers have called Jindal's speech simplistic, too "sing-songy" and out of step with the American public, though Jindal stands by it. "The president is a very gifted speaker, and I certainly think he's a better...

Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) said Monday night that he was pleased to see Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele apologize to radio host Rush Limbaugh, whom he called a “leader for many conservatives.” “I'm glad he apologized,” Jindal said during an interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” “I think the chairman is a breath of fresh air for the party,” he added. “As I said before, I think Rush is a leader for many conservatives and says things that people are concerned about. [He] articulates very well the concern people have about growing government spending without an end in sight.”...

Here is a 60 Minutes profile of Gov. Bobby Jindal that aired yesterday, March 1, 2009. Morley Safer calls Jindal an "awkward young man" in his lead-in to the piece, referencing Jindal's GOP Response Speech last week, but describes him as the man the GOP is counting on to be the savior of the party. In the interview, Safer goes through Jindal's life, telling some little know facts about Jindal. For example, Jindal changed his name to "Bobby" because he identified with "Bobby Brady" on "The Brady Bunch" as a child. Jindal majored in Biology at Brown University, and was...

As I began to read Frank Rich this morning, I was getting all revved up to go after him. The NYT columnist: * repeatedly dissed Bobby Jindal; * likened Republicans to slave owners in the Old South; * ridiculed Rick Santelli; * claimed Republicans were committing “suicide.” At the same time, Rich glorifed Barack Obama, hailing his “riveting,” “lucid” address to Congress, and seconding his call for government to “step in boldly.” But then, Rich turned from Obama’s style to his substance, and was surprisingly–harshly–critical. . . .

We all saw the rocky performance that Bobby Jindal gave in his response to the president's not-the-state-of-the-union speech earlier this week. There was a lot of wincing going on during and after his performance. But, let me stress the word "performance," here. It was NOT the basic theme of the speech that was so bad. It was but how he delivered it. Still, despite his less than show-stopping performance, a lot of second guessing on Jindal started to waft about conservative circles. The "he's not ready yet" stuff was everywhere. So, we need to remind ourselves of just what sort...

The first Republican straw poll of the 2012 campaign got underway Thursday morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. Before the three-day gathering of conservative activists began, the straw poll's creator, Fabrizio, McLaughlin and Associates, would not release its wording. But we've now got our hands on it. As conference attendees walk into the Omni Shoreham Hotel ballroom in Washington, DC, they are invited to fill out a questionnaire. The presidential preference question asks: "Thinking ahead to the 2012 Presidential election, who would you vote for as the next Republican nominee for President?" It then lists...

The big story Tuesday night, of course, was Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress. But almost as interesting to political junkies was what came immediately afterward: The response from Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana Governor being pushed as the new face of the Republican Party and a leading contender for the party’s presidential nomination in 2012. What was meant to be a coming out celebration on the national stage, however, turned to something far different for Jindal: The governor, who has been well received in other public forums, was almost universally panned. And an address that was expected...

Governor Bobby Jindal On The Today Show February 25, 2009

The National Weather Service has issued a severe blizzard warning for Hades: Mika Brzezinski has been blasted by a liberal Democrat. Sen. Barbara Boxer got on Mika’s case this morning for raising questions about the stimulus plan. Palpably peeved on Morning Joe today, Boxer accused Mika of being “very ideological” . Boxer began by sniping at Bobby Jindal, saying she felt “really sorry for the people of Louisiana,” adding it would “a tragedy if some politician wants to make a point” and declines part of the stimulus funding, as Jindal has announced he would regarding the unemployment insurance portion that...

Jindal: As I grew up, my mom and dad taught me the values that attracted them to this country -- and they instilled in me an immigrant's wonder at the greatness of America. As a child, I remember going to the grocery store with my dad. Growing up in India, he had seen extreme poverty. And as we walked through the aisles, looking at the endless variety on the shelves, he would tell me: 'Bobby, Americans can do anything.' Obama: ...Dillon, South Carolina - a place where the ceilings leak, the paint peels off the walls, and they have to...

Rising star Jindal: Republicans can work with Obama WASHINGTON (AFP) — Louisiana's Indian-American governor, Bobby Jindal, attacked President Barack Obama's "irresponsible" economic policies on Tuesday but promised Republicans will find ways to work with the White House. "All of us want our economy to recover and our nation to prosper," Jindal, a possible White House contender in 2012, said in the Republican rejoinder to the Obama's debut speech to a joint session of the US Congress. With Republicans under pressure to cooperate with the hugely popular president, Jindal signalled that the party would do so when it agreed with the...

Bobby Jindal must be doing something right: Chris Matthews is making ugly remarks about him. On this evening’s Hardball, Matthews accused the Louisiana governor of “stupid talk.” It got even better for Bobby: Dem Gov. Ed Rendell announced that “I’m voting for Charlie Crist” over Jindal. Thank you, Ed! Rendell was a guest on this evening’s Hardball, and Matthews played a clip of Jindal and Crist’s contrasting comments on the stimulus plan. Jindal was critical, Crist thought it was great. MATTHEWS: Governor Rendell, that’s cartoon talk by Jindal. Nobody’s talking about a train or a light rail from Disney World...

The repercussions that were expected from the Louisiana legislature’s passage and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s signing of the creationist 2008 LA Science Education Act have begun. Louisiana taxpayers and schoolchildren are now reaping what the legislature and governor have sowed: the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, one of the nation’s leading scientific societies, is boycotting Louisiana.

SPRINGDALE, Ark. -- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Saturday that the Republicans only had themselves to blame for losing control of Congress and the White House. "The country fired us from our congressional majority in 2006. Why? The country didn't stop being conservative. The Republican Party did," Jindal told a gathering of Arkansas Republicans. "We became what we came to Washington to change -- the party of earmarks and government spending. The party needs to stop worrying about what to do to fix itself. Let's worry more about fixing our country. Then the party will fix itself."

Louisiana Governor Piyush “Bobby” Jindal received mixed reviews on his first year in office from a panel of local reporters and editors at a webcast Jan. 14. Jindal — the nation’s first Indian American governor — was invited to speak at the webcast but declined. He released on the same day a summary of successes for his first year. The majority of Jindal’s stated accomplishments involved transparency in Louisiana state government, including financial disclosures from all elected officials, tighter limits on lobbyist spending, online reports of all state spending, annual ethics trainings for all public servants and expanded whistleblower protection....

Governor's Mansion, Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 7, 2009 Q. What lessons do you think Republicans should learn from the last two disastrous -- for them -- election cycles? A. There are at least three lessons that immediately jump out at me. The first is that the party must consistently do what it says. You can't be the party of fiscal discipline and tolerate the kind of spending that our party has accepted in the last several years, especially in Washington. Our actions have to match our rhetoric. If the Democrats had proposed many of the spending initiatives and projects that...

CPAC 2009 Timeless Principles, New Challenges Register today for the largest gathering of conservative grassroots activists in the country! The American Conservative Union Foundation is pleased to invite you to participate in the nation’s largest annual gathering of conservatives. The 36th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will be held on February 26-28, 2009, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. Invited and Confirmed Speakers Include: Amb. John Bolton – Gov. Sarah Palin – Ann Coulter – Gov. Bobby Jindal – Newt Gingrich – David Horowitz – David Keene – Wayne LaPierre – Rep. Ron Paul – Mitt Romney...

Posted by Michael F. Cannon Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) proposed Medicaid reforms are getting a lot of press. Jindal proposes to expand eligibility for Medicaid, enroll Medicaid patients in private managed-care plans, and do other things to improve the quality of care. Writing in The American Spectator, Joseph Lawler says the approach is “market-based” and “could forestall universal health care.” A friend asked my thoughts about Jindal’s proposal. Here’s what I emailed back: "Why is it that when politicians propose giving taxpayer dollars to private companies, people think that’s “market-based”? Jindal’s plan is not market-based reform. As a general...

"I say this with good conscience: every year we don't do anything about the uninsured, we end up, by default, moving closer to a single-payer system," Louisiana Secretary of Health and Hospitals Alan Levine warned TAS in an interview. "Because every year, more people get enrolled in Medicare, more people get enrolled in Medicaid, and more people get enrolled in SCHIP... that by itself is having a death spiral effect on private insurance." And a single-payer system, he added, "would be a disaster." Levine is the man Governor Bobby Jindal has entrusted with the Louisiana Health First Iniative, an overhaul...

Professors routinely give advice to students but usually while their charges are still in school. Arthur Landy, a distinguished professor of molecular and cell biology and biochemistry at Brown University, recently decided, however, that he had to remind a former premed student of his that “without evolution, modern biology, including medicine and biotechnology, wouldn’t make sense.” The sentiment was not original with Landy, of course. Thirty-six years ago geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, a major contributor to the foundations of modern evolutionary theory, famously told the readers of The American Biology Teacher that “nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light...

In a shocker, there will be a GOP Rep. in New Orleans. In a surprising twist, GOPers won a sweep in LA tonight in two general elections, picking up embattled Rep. Bill Jefferson's (D-LA 02) seat in New Orleans, and holding retiring Rep. Jim McCrery's (R) seat in the Shreveport-based Fourth District. But the surprise of the night, and possibly the cycle, was in the Big Easy. Atty Ahn “Joseph” Cao (R) defeated Jefferson 50-47%. Dems outnumber GOPers here 6-1, and African Americans make up 61% of the vote. But the NRCC must've had an inkling that something was up...

Jeb Bush to GOP: Don't Become 'Democrat-Lite' Sunday, November 30, 2008 4:20 PM By: David A. Patten Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tells Newsmax that the GOP must broaden its appeal to avoid becoming “the old white-guy party,” and recommends that Republicans create a “shadow government” to engage Democrats on important issues as the incoming Obama administration seeks to enact its agenda. In a wide-ranging interview with Newsmax, the popular former governor and younger brother of President George W. Bush said the 2008 election was neither “transformational” nor a landslide. For example, he noted that Barack Obama's significant fundraising advantage...

Frank Rich has apparently figured out that after January 20, it's not going to be as much fun for him anymore. For while the NYT columnist will surely disinter W as necessary to explain away Obama's missteps, the buck for whatever post-inauguration problems the country faces will land ever more resoundingly on the new president's desk. And so, like a vaudevillian tapping as fast as he can while anticipating the hook, Rich seems determined to spend these last few weeks of the Bush administration dancing on Republican graves and luxuriating in their perceived pain. As we discussed last week in...

Sarah Palin was not scheduled to arrive for another 30 minutes, but by 9 A.M. last Thursday more than a hundred journalists from around the world had gathered in a large ballroom at the InterContinental Hotel for a chance to ask her a question. Palin had been at the hotel the previous day, to tape interviews with Wolf Blitzer and Larry King. Everywhere she went in Miami a media caravan followed close behind, hoping for an impromptu question-and-answer session--something the McCain campaign leadership had not permitted her during the campaign. For political reporters, Palin remains something of an enigma. The...

After Hurricane Katrina flooded its building and scattered its families, the Upperroom Bible Church Academy kept its elementary school open -- barely. The school combined three or four grades into single classrooms since it only had a few students at each grade level. With two teachers devoted to each tiny class, the students received plenty of one-on-one time. This year, with the introduction of a new voucher program in Louisiana, Upperroom is a changed place. The small classrooms in the eastern New Orleans church are packed with students, dozens of them taking advantage of the tuition vouchers.Without the voucher, "my...

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to unveil today a proposed restructuring of the state's Medicaid program that would steer hundreds of thousands of low-income Louisiana residents into private managed-care plans in an effort to control costs and improve the state's historically poor health-care outcomes. The long-awaited Louisiana Health First Initiative, which is due to be outlined today at an afternoon news conference at the Governor's Mansion, would move the state's Medicaid program for the poor away from a "fee-for-service" model, where the state mostly pays claims submitted by health-care providers. Under the new proposal, managed-care organizations would receive...

- - Gov. Sarah Palin took center stage in the last day of a GOP governors conference where leaders asked themselves where the party is headed -- but did not find clear answers. Two roads diverged in the GOP's path toward the future in a meeting of Republican governors in Miami this week -- and Gov. Charlie Crist took the one for a more moderate party. Still struggling with its party's election defeat, the Republican Governors Association tried to represent a unified front, led by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She gave her first national news conference Thursday as she tried...

The future of the Republican Party is on display this week in Miami, where the Republican Governors Association Annual Conference is taking place. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke there Thursday — as did several other GOP up-and-comers. The conference comes at a critical time for the party, just nine days after its worst loss in decades. This is the first time in 14 years that Republicans do not control the White House, the House or the Senate. This, in part, helps explain why an event that usually attracts a few dozen political reporters drew at least 200 this...

- - Republican governors meeting in Miami say their party has to shift its emphasis from ideology to voters' everyday issues. The Republican Party, still grappling with last week's election results, should position itself as a pragmatic problem-solver for working people, GOP governors meeting in Miami said Wednesday. Without unequivocally stating that the party should move to the ideological center to appeal to moderate voters, leaders at the two-day Republican Governors Association meeting urged their colleagues to tackle education, energy and the environment to broaden the party's base. Largely absent from their discussions at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Miami:...

Here is video of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal being interviewed by Fox News' Greta Van Susteren on November 12, 2008. Jindal talks about how the GOP needs to move forward in order to win in future elections. He was talking with Greta from Florida, where is attending the Republican Governors Conference. . . . (Watch Video)

The next presidential election might be four years off, but it's never too early to sow dissension in Republican ranks. So would appear to be David Shuster's creed. Interviewing Bobby Jindal this evening, Shuster was clearly more interested in luring the brilliant Lousiana governor into a fight with Sarah Palin than in exploring the substance. Jindal was way too savvy and diplomatic to fall for Shuster's transparent ploy, but that didn't stop Shuster—sitting in for David Gregory as host of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—from repeatedly trying. View video here.