I have Tivo paused until G. gets off the phone with his dad because I’m dying for him to see David Brooks after Jindal’s speech.

Now I watched David Brooks to the end and it was EVEN BETTER!!!  He looked embarrassed to have ever supported the Republicans.

Oh please, please rethugs, please let jindal be your candidate in 2012, and in fact, I want you to put palin back on the ticket too.  I don’t who gets what spot.  Please run them both.

Rachel Maddow was literally speechless after the speech.

Her summation:

“Gug bubuh dubuh.  Dooby dabah goobah.  wookie wookie wee, widdle babeee.  Weeeee!”

And then she laughed and said, “I just can’t do it.  Give me 45 minutes.”

Does anyone have a link to Brooks?

It was on PBS, but I think it’s too early for it to show up on YouTube.  It may show up on this page late today or tomorrow:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/politics/political_wrap/

I guess Jindal’s baby-talk works in Louisiana, but he sounded pathetic following Obama.  I hope the Republicans run him against Obama in 2012 - Obama will eat his lunch!

I really hope Jindal does get the nod in 2012.

Sadly, I think it will be Mitt Romney.

And while Mittens is as full of shit as they come, he’s about a million times better at speechifying than Governor Exorcist.

He lied, he pulled out a whole lot of discredited GOP crap, he sounded like a complete asshole.

In other words, he’s prime GOP candidate material.

He sounded like he was teaching first graders.

Sadly, I think it will be Mitt Romney.

Oh please oh please oh please…He’d win Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. That would be all. The Evangelicals would stay home rather than vote for a Mormon and Obama would even win the Deep South at that point.

I’m still shocked this guy was hyped as the Great Republican Hope.

With rising stars like him…

Mittens?  He’s like the Mormon Michael Scott:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwwAaVmnf4

Mittens and Bobby ‘12!

What he really meant, Elizabeth, was “Between doctors, patients, and HMO bean counters, except for abortions and contraception for unmarried women.

Watching Jindal’s speech, I was reminded of an old Jerry Clower routine.  Jerry tells a story about how he goes back to his high school to give a commencement address; his entire family shows up to hear him speak, including his deathly ill uncle.  After the speech Jerry goes straight to his uncle and says “Uncle Versey, I sure hope you get better.”  Uncle Versey said, “my God, son, I hope you do too!”

Jindal has time to get better.  Be careful what you wish for.  That said, Republican theories have failed so completely and spectacularly that they might be out of power for the better part of a generation; just as they were with FDR and Truman.

Everyone’s talking about Rachel Maddow’s response to the Jindal speech, but watch Chris Matthews in the lower right-hand corner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxHoWEdcbcM

He looks like someone just shot his dog.

Here’s a link to Brooks’ on Jindal’s…eh…response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27UIt0RuMw

The embarrassment practically oozes through the monitor.

I imagine soon we’ll be hearing Jonah Goldberg say that the fact Jindal is being compared to Kenneth from 30 Rock instead of to Apu from The Simpsons is a sign that racism is no more.

oh my god, Mnem!  I have NEVER seen that expression on a pundit face before.  That is absolutely priceless!  Excuse me while I go laugh uproariously.

Chris Matthews face is a riot.  It is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.

And he’s supposed to be an evul liebrul!  Jindal broke his heart!!!!  Rachel and Keith are licking their chops, but Matthews is about to cry.

There is no value in the GOP.  There is no way to support the GOP and appear even remotely “fair and balanced” when they are so obviously unbalanced. 

I’m gonna go watch it again.  It’s too funny.  He looks like someone shot his puppy, but it was just Jindal talking.

And while Mittens is as full of shit as they come, he’s about a million times better at speechifying than Governor Exorcist.

The weirdest thing is that I’ve heard Jindal giving press conferences and speaking with the media, and he’s never sounded like this before.  I’m wondering if it’s not something similar to Sarah Palin, who also sounded relatively normal before her Ready For The National Stage makeover.  Whoever is doing the Repubs’ grooming of their next generation is obviously a mole. 

Because, seriously?  For serious?  Really?  This is what they thought would elevate him to the national spotlight?  (On the other hand, one of my more moderate coworkers saw nothing particularly wrong with Jindal’s style, he was more worked up about the lies upon lies upon lies.)

That said, Republican theories have failed so completely and spectacularly that they might be out of power for the better part of a generation; just as they were with FDR and Truman.

Bobby Jindal: Alf Landon for the 2010s.

To be fair most SOTU responses have been Epic Fails. The only person I’ve seen pull it off as a success was Jim Webb in 2007.

we’ll be hearing Jonah Goldberg say that the fact Jindal is being compared to Kenneth from 30 Rock instead of to Apu from The Simpsons is a sign that racism is no more.

Along those lines, it was also funny to hear Jindal’s praise of that horrible old-style racist, Sheriff Harry Lee, who used to be quite open about the fact that his offciers had orders to stop anyone caught driving while black in his parish.  With a name like “Harry Lee,” you might think that the sheriff came from an old southern family . . .

Lee’s parents were Chinese immigrants.

Nowdays, even our racists are multiracial.

Along those lines, it was also funny to hear Jindal’s praise of that horrible old-style racist, Sheriff Harry Lee, who used to be quite open about the fact that his offciers had orders to stop anyone caught driving while black in his parish.  With a name like “Harry Lee,” you might think that the sheriff came from an old southern family . . .

Lee’s parents were Chinese immigrants.

Are you serious?

Dammit, I go to sleep and the next morning the whole Internet is full of this Jindal = Ken the Intern theme.  I love Ken.  Couldn’t we pick someone else to compare him too?

By life-begins-at-conception standards, if Jindal’s mom was already 4.5 months pregnant with him when she arrived in this country, wouldn’t that make him ineligible for the presidency?

“Lee’s parents were Chinese immigrants.

Are you serious?
“

He was a fat chinese man who weighed about 300 pounds before his death. He was also one of the last few Dixecrats.

I suspect a high level of self loathing. Of course Chinese can be racist especially towards Blacks due to the cultural perception that someone with black skin is evil since they were left in the oven too long or something backassed involving creation stories.

Before anybody starts freebasing schadenfreude, one might consider the disaster that was Clinton’s speech to the Democratic Convention in ‘88.  A lot of people write him off after that.

Just a thought.

Whoever is doing the Repubs’ grooming of their next generation is obviously a mole.

Seriously.  What happened here?  Did they send him a speaking coach who said, “OK, you need to sound like a figure that the American people know and trust.  How about…  Mr. Rogers!”  Ridiculous.

True, seeker.  So instead of writing him off, we have a duty to make as many exorcism and Kenneth jokes as we can, to make sure he’s a laughingstock, instead of leaving it up to chance.

I’m gonna go watch it again.  It’s too funny.  He looks like someone shot his puppy, but it was just Jindal talking.

I watched it over and over again last night.  Olbermann and Maddow were also clearly flabbergasted (and said so) but Matthews looked like he was in shock.

Someone else somewhere said that’s what they expected news people to look like if Russia ever dropped a bomb on us.

Seriously.  What happened here?  Did they send him a speaking coach who said, “OK, you need to sound like a figure that the American people know and trust.  How about… Mr. Rogers!” Ridiculous.

It was especially bad because the president had just spent 30 minutes talking to us like we’re adults who can understand adult concepts, like needing to think beyond immediate gratification.  Jindal went the infantilization route so beloved by Republicans, and it really stood out in contrast.

“True, seeker.  So instead of writing him off, we have a duty to make as many exorcism and Kenneth jokes as we can, to make sure he’s a laughingstock, instead of leaving it up to chance.”

This!

I watched it over and over again last night.  Olbermann and Maddow were also clearly flabbergasted (and said so) but Matthews looked like he was in shock.

Someone else somewhere said that’s what they expected news people to look like if Russia ever dropped a bomb on us.

Yeah, he liked Bobby Jindal, just like he liked the codpiece.  He likes to “balance” any catcalls that he’s a liberal by supporting GOP pols/policies.  He just saw every piece he’d pre-written about Jindal’s clear-sightedness and devastating deflation of Obama’s flowery prose go down the tubes.

There’s no way he can pump up Jindal.  And he wanted to.  Badly.

The question is why.  Why was he so invested in Jindal being a Great Brown Hope for the GOP?  Why would responding to reality instead of a script upset him so much?

Poor widdle Tweety.

Here’s a link to Brooks’ on Jindal’s…eh…response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27UIt0RuMw

The embarrassment practically oozes through the monitor.

Actually, I think his reaction is “WTF?!?”, especially the way he says “I think it’s in-sane” near the very end.

On the other hand, I don’t ever think I’ve seen him daven as much as he did here.  Physical manefestation of psychologicall stress, perhaps?

It was especially bad because the president had just spent 30 minutes talking to us like we’re adults who can understand adult concepts, like needing to think beyond immediate gratification.  Jindal went the infantilization route so beloved by Republicans, and it really stood out in contrast.

Maybe that’s the answer… Obama was talking to the nation and Jindal was talking to Republicans.

Along those lines, it was also funny to hear Jindal’s praise of that horrible old-style racist, Sheriff Harry Lee, who used to be quite open about the fact that his offciers had orders to stop anyone caught driving while black in his parish.  With a name like “Harry Lee,” you might think that the sheriff came from an old southern family . . .

Lee’s parents were Chinese immigrants.

Nowdays, even our racists are multiracial.

Gotta admit, I was always under the impression that Sheriff Lee was a good ‘ol Southern white boy, but then I googled him and looked at his pictures, and sure enough, the dude is unmistakeably of Asian descent.

Before anybody starts freebasing schadenfreude, one might consider the disaster that was Clinton’s speech to the Democratic Convention in ‘88.  A lot of people write him off after that.

Just a thought.

True enough, but Clinton did make that speech in 1988 - LOOOOONG before we had the delicious goodness that is YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROwWvq6zvw&eurl=http://thechurchofgroove.com/viewtopic.php?t=17217&feature=player_embedded

This one probably isn’t gonna destroy Jindal’s 2012 POTUS aspirations, but it sure as hell is gonna hurt him a lot more than Clinton’s 1988 speech hurt him.

The question is why.  Why was he so invested in Jindal being a Great Brown Hope for the GOP?  Why would responding to reality instead of a script upset him so much?

Poor widdle Tweety.

I honestly don’t think Tweety is a Republican shill.  I do think he’s a blatant misogynist and a dipshit, but not a Republican shill.  No true Republican shill would ever respond to an Obama speech by saying that it sends tingles up their leg.

As for his angle, I think he’s trying to play both sides.  When Bush had high approval ratings, Tweety was all over him like a loyal puppy dog.  This past year, Tweety was slobbering all over Obama all the way up until the Inauguration.  Now that Obama’s in there, he’s bored, so he’s hopping on whatever the GOP is hyping, because he loves being a contrarian.

He loves political contentiousness, and he was hoping that Jindal would prove himself a worthy adversary to Obama last night.  When it was clear that Jindal had failed monumentally, he was despressed, because he’s bored by the fact that Obama is wildly popular.