This Week's Winner of the GOOPER Award: Bobby Jindal

Bobby Jindal is the newest member of my GOOP (Grand Old Obstructionist Party). In fact he has earned a five-star rating for his recent announcement that he just might not take any of the government´s stimulus money for unemployment in his wounded state of Louisiana. His rebuttal to the President´s speech to the house was weak and out of touch at best. My guess is that he did not read nor hear the speech. Bobby, instead of worrying about becoming a presidential candidate in 2012 you should be more worried about being impeached for not knowing how to govern your state. If I lived in Louisiana and my governor came home with his pockets empty from his trip to D.C., I´d be writing up the letter of impeachment myself.

Jindal isn´t alone in his quest to be the GOOPER of the year. Governors Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Haley Barbour of Georgia, and Governor Pawlenty of Minnesota all oppose the plan but are "cherry picking" certain parts of the plan... in other words, they´ll just take the parts that will get them reelected. I won´t place Pawlenty on the top list. According to the future presidential candidate, he didn´t like the plan, but would accept the money…duh. Gee, could that be because his state needs infrastructure repair and most important, jobs?

Now I just wonder about these guys. Can you buy a loaf of bread and some peanut better on ideology? Usually, the store requires money. "Pardon me sir, I would like to pay for this gas with my Republican belief." Maybe I´ll try that the next time I´m down at the hardware store.

I must question why the Republicans are whining so much. They got the tax cuts they wanted, and we all know those will work. Look how they helped the Bush economy. Yep, we´re all going to get an extra sixty-five bucks a month starting in April. That will pay for the light bill that our local government raised by thirty percent. Hmm, is that going to stimulate the economy?

I am building my GOOPER list. Thus far I have about ten members, most of them are staunch GOOPERS from southern states and of course we have one in our most northern state, the one that´s two blocks from Russia. I have a feeling that my list will grow. I think the first thing I buy with my tax cut will be some GOOPER trophies shaped in the form of a horse´s x#$%. Made from genuine Iraqi camel dung. And this week, my trophy goes to the Governor of Louisiana, Bobby, Out-of-Touch, Jindal.