Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana will give the ‘Republican Response’ to President Obama’s speech to Congress on Tuesday evening. You can read more about it below, see photos, and watch the video.
Governor Bobby Jindal
Governor Bobby Jindal is the 37-year-old state executive of Louisiana. He will be speaking to the nation on Tuesday night, giving the GOP response immediately following President Obama’s speech to congress. You can watch a live video stream feed with live-blogging commentary of both speeches at 6 pm pst/9 pm est at Right Pundits!
Bobby Jindal is actually a rockstar in political circles, mentioned by members of both parties as a future presidential candidate but many Americans will be getting their first good look at him during the republican response. He has emerged as one of the GOP’s high-profile critics of the porkulus plan Obama recently signed into law, being the first governor to publicly say ‘no thanks!’ to a part of his state’s share of the $787 billion so-called stimulus bill.
Governor Jindal will not receive an advance copy of the president’s speech but prior administrations have traditionally released ‘talking points’ just before an address to Congress. We’ll see if this administration - who was to be the most transparent of them all - will do so as well. And even if they do, it will be too late for additions or real changes to the governor’s gop response.
By the way, Governor Jindal’s response will be short – about 5 to 10 minutes. He’ll be standing at the front entryway of the Governor’s Mansion. Here is the complete transcript or text of Bobby Jindal’s GOP response and you can watch the video below.
Governor Bobby Jindal Photos
Governor Bobby Jindal Video
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:55 pm
The economy in Louisiana must be in good shape. I guess that Jindal does not realize that Republican dogma was run over by their own karma.
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:59 pm
He sure do have a purdy mouth, don’t he?
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:50 pm
I thought y’all were against the Fairness Doctrine.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm
lol arch. now that was funny. sortof.
February 24th, 2009 at 6:26 am
As usual Arc twists any issue to fit the liberal logic.
The Fairness Doctrine was from the late 40’s when the primary source of news was radio. The FCC required stations to provide air time for public service and for opposing views on the issues of the day.
As usual liberals can’t make a living in talk radio because after 2 minutes they have said all they have to say. Which is Conservatives hate children, old people, blacks, women and little dogs. They love money, war, each other and the God thing. And then they talk about how liberals are open minded and want to teach all children about homosexual issues, tax the mean evil business owners, give people that sit and watch Oprah more free stuff.
Gov. Jindal may be our first Indian (Dot not feather) President. He is very well educated and Governors make better Presidents then community organizers do.
February 24th, 2009 at 7:00 am
I like this guy but, he to be a centrist because the (real) rightwing would never vote for this guy. Too dark. Too muslim looking.
Sad but true. Mots dittoheads won’t say it, but he doesn’t look “American enough”.
February 24th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Jack,
You are an idiot. You don’t even know what ditto head means and I suspect you are a raci*t.
You have to be to make a statement like that.
Real conservatives look past the color of skin. Bush had more, as you said not me, ‘dark’ people in his cabinet then Clinton or Obama. We look at what the person stands for and believe in. Perhaps you missed you missed it, but we have a black man as the head of the GOP. I guess in your world, that does not count because he is a member of the GOP.
Nice try pretending to be a conservative but you can’t hide you liberal logic. (I know that is an oxymoron)
February 24th, 2009 at 10:08 am
[...] live feed/live stream post is at: Right Pundit’s ( Obama ) The GOP response to Obama is at: Right Pundit’s ( Jindal ) digg_url = ‘http://southernsassoncrime.com/?p=1837′; digg_title = ‘Obama’s [...]
February 24th, 2009 at 10:11 am
[...] live-blogging commentary. the speech begins at 6 pm pst/9 pm est. btw, bobby jindal is doing the republican response immediately following obama so it should be [...]
February 24th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Off white in politicians seems to be the popular thing right now. The Republicans are just behind the curve.
February 24th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Our Supreme Leader, Barack Obama…
Having been President for only one month, Barack Obama has done many things — all of which prove Republican commentary made during the campaign to be prophetic. Spending, taxing, more federal control over states, more welfare, federal control over bus…
February 24th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Right Truth - You are correct. The problem is the Republicans currently have no credibility. They will have to wait until the Great Collapse and then the pendulum will swing back.
February 24th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Jindal has a really good chance of victory in 2012 thats clear. His only problem is that his state has thousands of problems he has to stay in Louisiana. So I would advise him to turn that state around and become a bigger star threw that. Not threw the way Palin, Pawlenty, and Sandford are attempting to rise their popularity. He has a clean record and has lowered his states deficit so keep doing what your doing in Louisiana.
Also he would beet obama I mean think of it like this Democrats always win with young smart people which he is. And he would win the south as well he’s so religious its not funny.
February 24th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
jindall’s comments were so out of touch of where we are today as a nation. He just gave a retread of republican bush like platitudes to do more of nothing, while obama offered up actual solutions that should help. Talk about out of touch. The entire republican dogma is so out in left field where the rest of the nation is now, the left, the left of center, the centrists, the moderately right wing centrists, anyone who can grapple with a problem honestly and with insight are simply not in the “do nothing” camp anymore.
February 24th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Olbermann: ‘Oh God’…
Keith Olbermann makes no attempt to disguise his prejudice when it comes to political issues. So much for any kind of ‘fairness doctrine’ when it comes to reporting. I guess it doesn’t matter that he masquerades as an actual reporter,…
February 24th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I kept waiting for him to go to the closet and get out his sweater and keds. It sounds like he’s more ready to take over Mr. Rodger’s Neighborhood than to take over our country.
A truly pathetic response. I think he just ended any chance presidential nomination. Ouch.
February 24th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
olbermann isn’t a reporter, just a telecaster, a kind of pundit, and msnbc is democrat positive as a manner of policy, just like fox pundits are republican shills. I am liking rachel maddox’s style as its more in synch with educated and socially liberal people and uses humor and irony well. If your a liberal arts major you will like her show. If you are a military cadet or mba student you will like fox.
February 24th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I think Bobby was well spoken and voiced a common sense approach to government and crisis. His words were based on mindful thought not emotion. We will need this kind of sane leadership to get out of the severe hardships well will face in the next 4 years. I challenge the liberal & conservative responders here to write as well as Jendal speaks.
February 24th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
There was very lilttle thought in what jindall said come to think of it. it was just a rehash of hashed over too many times already repub talkn points. He would make an fill in for a modern day ricardo malteban on a new fantasy island tv series. why are the repubs trying to push him on the public as potential prezidential materiel? He’s not very deep.
February 25th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Brian, if you like dominatrix dykes, Maddow is great. Stick with her, babe, but other than you fine example of man, only MSNBC partisan nuts actually listen to her, given her horrid ratings.
Jindal laid out a fiscally responsible platform. Really boring without the bow-tie and Vogue cover, so we are agreed he may not get votes from the sissified electorate. Others will deliver us from Obama with the excitement that is required.
February 25th, 2009 at 12:25 am
I don’t really pick up that on maddox, or am not interested in that controlling my appreciation of her reportage talent. She’s actually gotten better and is kind of a more realistic news version of jon stewart and cobert nation that is more believable. But she has improved. Now David Brooks of the NYT has just said the jindal speech was an unmitigated disaster and nicely chimed in on the very points I was making. I think people’s interest in partners is like something 4th on the list as to what might be important in my book, not first on the list. When you see a turtle do you think about its preference in partners? I sure don’t, I wanna see what it does as a turtle instead. anyways, maddow is improving and she covers clips of the daily events no one else does, and has a genuine writers humor and brookes is abhorred by jindal’s stump speech which just shouts out fleas. He’s just not presidential material to the rest of us(if your looking for electablility) and when are the repubs going to wake up? Obama did well tonight and so did the American people(for a change).
February 25th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Oh Brian, some people enjoy subservience to shemen, but nobody cares. Be your own man, more or less.
So you are the first person I’ve read who feels better off today than you were four weeks ago. How? Or are you saying you are better off now that you were four hours ago. It’s unclear why you feel the American people are better off living in Obama’s poverty, for a change, so can you elaborate please. Be more specific since comment 21 doesnt actually say anything remarkably coherent.
February 25th, 2009 at 1:17 am
well can see you have your garden variety basket of “issues” but they are yours, not mine. Bush simply put political hacks in charge of all the regulatory agencies and told them not to regulate basically. Look at the story of chris cox of the sec, or greenspan for that matter, or paulson’s shenanigans with his old banker friends. This is bush’s great recession. Then he skeedaddled out of town and ow obama gets to deal with it as do the American people. Even McCain with his economics advisors didn’t understand the deep doo doo the economy was sliding into. In fact if McCain had won he would have to deal with it. But I do think Obama has identified the key nodes to the problem, which is a good start. Now they have to work out how to rewire them all over again and is taking the time to figure it out. Bush’s paulson simply dumped huge amounts of money on his banker friends without any plan. Now some of the tarp recipients are already begging for more money as it wasn’t thought out. Did Bush’s people ever analyze the impact of all the 62 trillion dollars of derivatives, swaps, etc on the banks, insurance company’s etc,.? Did they ever do their math? no. I think its good obama takes the time to figure this out, so we can construct an affordable plan that works and holds recipients accountable. I don’t know if you get how corrupt wallstreet and the big banks and insurance companys had become on so many levels. I thought repubs were big on law and order, but I have yet to see anyone on these blogs who is one of the repub regulars become indignant at just how big wallstreet and the banks let us all down. It goes to our culture, our national narcissism, and plain greed, yet all you guys want to do is bash our new president as somehow responsible for our total finanical corrupt culture. There is a right and a wrong, and that trumphs partisan politicts. Nobody is saying you have to love pelosi, but come on, some of the stuff bush did and didn’t do is unbelievable. Rich kid syndrome, then walks away leaving a huge mess which was the pattern in his earlier career in the private sector which his dad’s friends had to bail him out of.
February 25th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Brian,
You said, ‘olbermann isn’t a reporter, just a telecaster, a kind of pundit,’. Don’t let him know that because he thinks he is a reporter.
MSNBC is a waste of cable.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:09 am
[...] speech last night in rebuttal to The One, the great orator. the full transcript and video are here. what are people talking [...]