But broken campaign promises aside, President Obama has shown his true colors, unabashedly, while presiding over the biggest socialism/collectivism effort in this country in at least 75 years, if not ever!  The true nature of his efforts has become plainly apparent as he has cast aside the pledges that all legislation before Congress should be available for public review on the internet before being considered.  I don’t remember the time he promised, but since the pledge was definitely longer than ZERO minutes we have learned he intends to push his agenda, the stimulus bill, cap and trade and apparently healthcare nationalization through the House when even the members haven’t read these bills before voting on them.
     First, unrealistic economic projections (unemployment will peak at 8.5%) to cover outrageous spending initiatives.  Now full support of efforts to tax the “rich” to whatever extent is necessary to achieve spread the wealth goals of fairness and justice and national healthcare.  All this while facing an unprecedented annual national deficit passing one trillion dollars for the first time and a national debt that our great grandchildren will still be burdened with decades from now.  Under the current House Democrats’ healthcare tax proposal taxpayers potentially face a burden of over 50% in 40 of the 50 states, including Louisiana, when totaling income and payroll taxes!  You don’t even want to hear about the tax penalties (8%) for small businesses who don’t provide enough payment of insurance coverage for employees FAMILIES or the 2.5% tax penalty for individuals who don’t want to buy health insurance, buy or we will tax you!  Choose not to participate in what the federal government says is best for you, then it’s pay us or face jail, just the freedom and liberty on which this country was founded!
     Now juxtaposed against this path laid out by the Obama administration we find the actions of Bobby Jindal’s administration.
Governor Jindal promised to bring strong ethics regulations into law for Louisiana’s elected officials.  While there are always areas that could be improved when legislation is run through the meat grinder, it’s widely acknowledged that this state now has a much stronger ethical footing.
     Jindal promised the state would be fully prepared to respond to hurricane emergencies.  With or without federal help, Jindal stated, there would be no repeat of the Katrina response disaster.  While you can’t equate Gustav and Ike to Katrina and Rita there was certainly plenty of evidence to confirm Jindal has certainly assembled the plans and personnel to ensure we will never again suffer a post hurricane disaster like we did in 2005. 

     Then going into this regular legislative session the state faced a significant budget deficit, Governor Jindal publicly declared he would oppose any effort to raise taxes.  Even as pressure built from some in the business community and almost every newspaper in the state to help “save” higher education by delaying the full implementation of federal itemized deductions on state income tax returns Jindal stood firm.  This delay was widely promoted as not being a tax increase giving Jindal some cover if he went along, but he chose belt tightening over increasing revenues from taxpayers.  Representative Peterson’s second effort at a tobacco tax to support health care in the state reportedly had poll numbers with over 70% approval.  Even with poll numbers like that, Bobby Jindal worked against HB 889 and saw that it was defeated.
     The biggest complaint against Jindal thus far has been the administration’s resistance and eventual defeat of the effort to pass legislation delivering unprecedented full and open access to just about all records of the governor’s office.  There are certainly many points to debate on this issue, but it comes down to the politician who wishes to protect information that could be used against him during elections versus the public’s right to know.  Jindal was able to win this battle, but at the very least there was a bill introduced this past session contrary to the administration’s position that received committee hearings and debate.  Under the Obama fist there would never have been any real hearing and debate over such an issue opposed by him.
     In my opinion, Obama’s Rahm Emanual is much more partisan, uncooperative and willing to run roughshod over the interests of American’s individualism than Timmy Teepel could do in a dream without being fired by Bobby Jindal.
     We currently have a governor who has been widely judged as ineloquent on national TV versus Obama’s unprecedented eloquence.  But eloquence isn’t going to change the fact that Obama is a socialist/collectivist teleprompter reader while Jindal is a conservative democracy capitalist.  Jindal’s been unbending in the face of financial crisis when it comes to raising taxes.  Jindal has stood firm in favor of less government and more personal liberty, Obama has undeniably done the exact opposite.  Make all the arguments you want against some of the governor’s actions (and there are a few legitimate complaints as with any elected official), but I’d be much happier, much, much happier if Bobby Jindal were POTUS today.  Pick whoever you prefer to Obama, but it’s pretty much impossible to come up with someone with a current record as good as Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.