Let's Exorcise Bobby Jindal

For the inaugural posting of Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, I present our first candidate, the right-honorable Governor of the Great State of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal. Jindal, who is considered one of the great lights of the Republican Party for having non-white skin and for being so down with Jesus that he actually claimed to witness an exorcism, has announced that he is going to refuse part of the stimulus package on the grounds that essentially make it so that unemployed workers get more unemployment money. After some hemming and hawing and threatening not to take on single penny of the stimulus- Louisiana's infrastructure being perfectly fine and all- Jindal finally signed on. He also said he'll take the extra unemployment cash but only the money that comes from the federal government which comes out to an extra $25 a week. He will not, however, comply with the rules that make it easier for unemployed people to receive more money. This, according to him, is bad because it would mean more unemployment money to unemployed people from businesses who unemployed them.

Louisiana, right now, has it so that people can get unemployment only if they've worked at a job for over a year. The new bill says people will be eligible now if they've worked at a place for just over three months and Jindal opposes that. Fuck temp/contractors. It could also make it so that people will be eligible if they've only been able to get part-time work or have to leave for family emergencies. Naturally, Jindal opposes this too-- fuck people who can't get full-time jobs and fuck working mothers. Lazy-asses.

Also on the list are other Republican Governors who are terribly pained over the thought of taking the money, mainly South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. Sanford is a special case because he could say no but it works out that the State Legislature can overrule him, making him the perfect Republican politician-- able to stand up there and defiantly say no to Big Gummint while knowing the full while he'll get the money anyways.

I could rant here how all three Governor's run states that take a huge percentage of federal money, a huge percentage of which comes from us Northern Blue States, to make up for the financial austerity they all preach, but I won't. Suffice it to say, if a Civil War were to be refought, they might not find the North so compliant in doing the aggression.