Governor Jindal of Louisiana, and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser are reaching the end of their rope in dealing with a venal and incompetent bureaucracy, and a White House that desires a major disaster on the Gulf coast.
Via Planet Gore--the Times Picayune covered the event:
Surrounded by indignant local officials, Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday once again lambasted the federal government's performance in fighting the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, not only because it has vetoed the state's proposals to combat it but also because, he said, Washington has not devised a strategy of its own.
"Whether it's Grand Isle or Barataria Bay or Lake Pontchartrain or Breton Sound, we need the federal government to have a greater sense of fighting this oil before it gets into our fragile estuaries," Jindal said at a news conference. "They need to fight it like the war that it is. We have told them that no is not an answer, no is not a plan, no is not acceptable."
A tremendous turn of phrase, which should be printed on shirts and hats for distribution across the South.
The problem is, Washington has devised a strategy: Frustrate every effort to combat the horrific consequences of the BP oil spill. Let Mother Nature do her thing via a hurricane or two, and then use the ensuing chaos to seize even more power. And, oh, by the way, strip the assets of great parts of the oil industry.
The Times-Picayune story also links to a profile of Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser. Well worth reading!
Some sage noted that crisis does not so much develop character as reveal it, and Jindal and Nungesser are passing the test with flying colors. Obama and company have failed miserably, and the failure becomes more evident with each passing day.
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