Mr. Jindal, Tear Down This Ambition
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Who says brainy, high-I.Q. types can’t be stunningly obtuse? Or cold-hearted?
We were already highly irritated with Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, by some accounts an educated man, for supporting and signing the creationist, Orwellian-named Louisiana Academic Freedom Act, a law that officially weakens the teaching of evolution and now punishes New Orleans as a national science association sadly announces it would rather meet in Salt Lake City (!) than convene its 2,300 members in an anti-science state.
In today’s G.O.P., a governor with presidential ambitions is a curse that we would not wish on any state.
Now, Jindal says he’ll reject $98 million from the recently passed economic stimulus bill that would go to extend unemployment insurance for up to 25,000 Louisianans.