Zombie-Like?
Posted By: sm on 2009-02-25
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Bobby Jindal's Zombie-Like Appearance uses Phony Republican Talking Points
By John Amato Tuesday Feb 24, 2009 9:31pm
Bobby Jindal walked out to the microphone with a glaze in his eyes and seemed hopped up on Red Bull as he shuffled through the Republican response speech to President Obama. If the Republican Party thinks he's their solution they are sadly mistaken.
Instead of launching his national political career, he just about ended it. Some people thought he reminded them of Kenneth from 30 Rock, but at least Kenneth has some enthusiasm. Not only was he zombie-like throughout, but he didn't even have his facts straight. Too much Red Bull?
But Democratic leaders in Congress rejected this approach. Instead of trusting us to make wise decisions with our own money, they passed the largest government spending bill in history -- with a price tag of more than $1 trillion with interest. While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending.
It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a 'magnetic levitation' line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called 'volcano monitoring.' Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, DC
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As Newsweek documented, the levitating train is a complete myth.
A widely repeated claim that $8 billion is set aside for a "levitating train" to Disneyland is untrue. That total is for unspecified high-speed rail projects, and some of it may or may not end up going to a proposed 300-mph "maglev" train connecting Anaheim, Calif., with Las Vegas.
The truth never seems to be a problem for the Republican Party. Jindal also boasted that government is ineffective by sneering at the government response to Hurricane Katrina. Yes, under Republicans and George Bush, Hurricane Katrina was a disaster -- one led by his own party. Way to go there, Bobby. I don't think Americans have forgotten that fact, and it was an idiotic analogy to use. Pretty much like most of his childlike stories.
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I love the zombie line..sm
O-B-A-M-A...that is hysterical and so true!
I hope one day you'll understand just how UN-zombie-like it is
Those who live in darkness imagine that they are free, but they are only free in the sense that a homeless person, a man without family or one who has no country might be considered to be "free".
Indeed, if there truly were such things as zombies the most terrible thing about such a state would be that such a creature could never be Christian, for to be Christian requires the ultimate act of volition. It requires the willing surrender of self, and that is surely something that a zombie could never do.
On the other hand, anyone who is held fast in the grip of his own self-centered desires, fascinated by the passing glitter of material possessions, marching to the tune of popular ideologies and hopeless that there is anything beyond the silence of the grave - well, perhaps that is as close to being a zombie as anyone can be.
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