I can't even begin to go into everything wrong with Bobby Jindal's Republican response (one that even Republican's seemed to shake their heads at) but this story really gets me the most. How can someone say that Hurricane Katrina was a sign of how American doesn't need its government to help. Most complaints are about how poorly the government did, can you imagine if they didn't bother getting involved at all? Don't you think that a lot of this could have been avoided with higher public safety standards? It's clear that people weren't paying much attention to the levies and people also didn't get up and save themselves before the hurricane hit.

I also like that this story (below) has his talking about a Democratic state employee trying to overcome the ridiculous red tape from the Republican powers-that-be and then surmising that what it all meant was that America didn't need government getting in the way. Clearly the problem wasn't government, it was the people who were in charge of it. In the end, Jindal's response was about as good as the GOP's response to Katrina.

I guess now I know why Sarah Palin is such a rising force in the party