Wise words for Kathleen Parker?

Let’s see, you mean like this?

The stagecraft was amateurish, and the speech embarrassing. Jindal is smarter than the guy who criticized “volcano monitoring&” as an example of wasteful spending in the stimulus bill, prompting the same cringe reflex that Sarah Palin did when she targeted silly ol’ spending — in France, no less — on fruit fly research that is, in fact, crucial to medical research.

Pity Palin was referring to olive fruit fly research commissioned by a Democrat Californian senator in the pockets of other Californian Democrats with boutique farms and vineyards who couldn’t give a toss about medical research. Pity the olive fruit fly esearch used federal monies on the pretense of assisting the tiniest of tiny boutique industries in California, which is why it earnt its place in the Pork Book. We can send you fruit fly free olive oil from down here for much less.

Volcano monitoring may not be a top priority for creating jobs and stimulating credit, which is doubtless what Jindal’s speechwriter meant, but it does save lives.

And here I was thinking that the stimulus bill was about creating jobs and stimulating credit. Duh me.

Jindal’s rendering of a spending eruption metaphor (get it?) merely gave Democrats yet another opportunity to question Republicans’ understanding of science and the role of government in protecting the public good.

Memo from an Aussie to American conservatives: if this broad is supposed to be indicative of conservative brains, ditch her. She’s dumber than a bag of hair.

saint on March 2, 2009 at 3:26 AM