# Bobby Jindal. you lying sack of \[disgusting bodily waste\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322 "2009-02-25T04:20:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/1 "2009-02-25T04:20:12Z")
In the Republican reply to President Obama’s address to Congress this evening, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana repeated the totally debunked lie that the stimulus bill included funding for a high speed train from Disneyland to Las Vegas. No where in the 1,100 pages of the stimulus bill is there an appropriation for any such rail project. There is $8 billion for light rail projects, but any specific project would have to compete for funding against those from all over the country; none have any specific funding yet. Republicans have fabricated funding for the Disneyland/Las Vegas train out of whole cloth in an attempt to whip up some outrage against the stimulus bill, then they trot it out _ad nauseum_ in the vain hope that it gains some traction in the repetition. While Bobby Jindal is supposed to be the bright young hope for the “new” Republican party, it is obvious he is sticking to the same old playbook; lie early, and repeat it often, and obfuscate, obfuscate, obfuscate. Same old same old. Fuck the Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/2 "2009-02-25T04:21:15Z")
Whoops!. Thought I was in the pit. Mods, please move? ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/3 "2009-02-25T04:28:00Z")
Moved from General Questions to the BBQ Pit at the request of the OP. **Gfactor** Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/4 "2009-02-25T04:32:43Z")
To be honest, I don’t see what’s so laughable about a high-speed rail link joining LA and Vegas anyway. It’s too long to drive and seems a waste of a jet flight: you barely get to cruising altitude before it’s time to begin the landing approach. There are likely other things to spend the money on, but the idea isn’t ridiculous on its face. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/5 "2009-02-25T04:39:58Z")
Here is a picture of Bobby Jindal with a pancake upon his head: [Bobby Jindal with a pancake on his head](http://faithmouse.blogspot.com/2008/09/bobby-jindal-with-pancake-on-his-head.html) ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/6 "2009-02-25T04:46:24Z")
> [@Orbifold](#): > > To be honest, I don’t see what’s so laughable about a high-speed rail link joining LA and Vegas anyway. It’s too long to drive and seems a waste of a jet flight: you barely get to cruising altitude before it’s time to begin the landing approach. There are likely other things to spend the money on, but the idea isn’t ridiculous on its face. I think the insinuation is supposed to be that Harry Reid set it up as an earmark since such a rail system would presumably help his home state. As you say, though, such an accusation is bunk since the money isn’t earmarked for any particular site. I’m sort of impressed on how little the GOP has been able to find in the stimulus bill to carp about. Even as someone who supports the bill, I assumed it would have a lot more in the way of silly projects, but the few things the bills opponenets have been harping on have either been more or less fabricated (light rail, field mice studies) or things that make seem like pretty good expenditures (increased unemployment benefits.). ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/7 "2009-02-25T05:06:07Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I’m sort of impressed on how little the GOP has been able to find in the stimulus bill to carp about. Even as someone who supports the bill, I assumed it would have a lot more in the way of silly projects, but the few things the bills opponenets have been harping on have either been more or less fabricated (light rail, field mice studies) or things that make seem like pretty good expenditures (increased unemployment benefits.). Especially as [Moody’s showed that extended unemployment benefits and increases to the food stamp programs are the two most effective tools for stimulus](http://www.economy.com/dismal/article_free.asp?cid=102598): > [@](#): > > Extending unemployment insurance and expanding food stamps are the most effective ways to prime the economy’s pump. A $1 increase in UI benefits generates an estimated $1.64 in near-term GDP; increasing food stamp payments by $1 boosts GDP by $1.73 The Republicans want tax cats because Republicans _always_ want tax cuts. And they don’t like unemployment benefits because they’ve never liked unemployment benefits. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/8 "2009-02-25T05:13:58Z")
Well, OK. But the raw power, the charisma! You could almost feel the surge of energy through the nation! His mastery of the room, the timing…oh, wait. Jindal. Sorry. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/9 "2009-02-25T05:22:13Z")
[insult] him. Anyone get the feeling from his delivery that he was channeling Mister Rogers? [sub]OK, I guess it was just me.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/10 "2009-02-25T05:31:02Z")
I love and have family in Lousiana, and want to give a different sort of politician there a break with all graces, but, yikes, Jindal really looked like the waterboy for the LSU football team who was just going gung ho no matter what. Sheesh. I hate to think that. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/11 "2009-02-25T05:34:56Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > . Even as someone who supports the bill, I assumed it would have a lot more in the way of silly projects, but the few things the bills opponenets have been harping on have either been more or less fabricated (light rail, field mice studies) or things that make seem like pretty good expenditures (increased unemployment benefits.). Didn’t almost all Republicans vote against it? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/12 "2009-02-25T05:59:09Z")
Vote against it? They threw themselves to the floor, tearing their hair and shrieking! Yeah, they voted against it. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/13 "2009-02-25T06:01:52Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Here is a picture of Bobby Jindal with a pancake upon his head: > > [Bobby Jindal with a pancake on his head](http://faithmouse.blogspot.com/2008/09/bobby-jindal-with-pancake-on-his-head.html) Link delivers what it promises. A+ would click again. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/14 "2009-02-25T06:11:19Z")
Ya know, the most ironic not funny part of this is that Jindal’s big national moment fell on Mardi Gras night, so, either no, at least So. LA folks were watching, or they were purty skewed watching… in NOLA, prolly some very vocal thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/15 "2009-02-25T06:22:08Z")
> [@drewbert](#): > > [insult] him. > > Anyone get the feeling from his delivery that he was channeling Mister Rogers? > > [sub]OK, I guess it was just me.[/sub] I read a YouTube comment that said the same thing. I think it’s pretty much a perfect description of his tone and delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/16 "2009-02-25T06:38:37Z")
Yeah, Kay Bailey Hutchison fell quite a few notches in my esteem today, when she flat out lied by saying that although President Obama came to Capitol Hill to talk with the Republicans, they were given absolutely no input whatsoever on what went into the stimulus bill. She, too, is a lying sack of [disgusting bodily waste]. > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Senate has adopted Senator Kit Bond’s [R-MO] bipartisan provision to provide much-needed affordable housing for low income and working families and create jobs to put people back to work now. > > “The reduction in available affordable housing has hit hard needy families already struggling to survive this economic crisis,” said Bond. “Today’s amendment will make available much-need housing to these struggling families while creating jobs and putting people back to work now.” > > A bipartisan group of Senators, including Murray, Dodd, Reed of Rhode Island, Kohl, Voinovich, and Brownback joined Senator Bond in introducing this critical amendment to help provide needy families affordable housing. Bond’s amendment provides $2 billion to fund low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) projects that have been stalled by the financial credit crisis. This amendment was accepted unanimously by a voice vote. > > . . . > > [http://www.suntimesnews.com/8C/news/02-February/0205senat.htm](http://www.suntimesnews.com/8C/news/02-February/0205senat.htm) It seems lying is all these lowlife scum have anymore. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/17 "2009-02-25T06:57:11Z")
It is the first time I saw him in more than a sound bite. He was terrible. He did all the repub sound bites and tossed in some Reagan, the government is the problem ,not the solution crap. He brought nothing. The repubs savaged the dems for 8 years. Now they suddenly see how much better compromise is. We should have our input in every bill now. It wasn’t necessary before ,but now ,since we are not in power, it is the right thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/18 "2009-02-25T07:11:53Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Vote against it? They threw themselves to the floor, tearing their hair and shrieking! Yeah, they voted against it. The way you describe the event makes it seem more polite, honorable, and adult than it actually was. ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/19 "2009-02-25T08:06:21Z")
> [@drewbert](#): > > [insult] him. > > Anyone get the feeling from his delivery that he was channeling Mister Rogers? > > [sub]OK, I guess it was just me.[/sub] I’d say the delivery was appropriate given his target audience. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322/20 "2009-02-25T08:15:26Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > The way you describe the event makes it seem more polite, honorable, and adult than it actually was. The calm decorum of the Taiwanese Parliament in a steel cage Death Match with the South Korean Parliament. Note to **Shayna** : The excerpt offered makes no mention of Ms. Hutchison (R, Peckerwood Acres). Don’t make me go read the link for the payoff… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-jindal-you-lying-sack-of-disgusting-bodily-waste/487322.md?page=2)