The Making of Bobby Jindal

Human Events
By Martha Zoller
July 30, 2010

...Since Bobby Jindal came on the scene as a U.S. congressman from Louisiana, he’s shaken the status quo.  He is an unabashed conservative within the Republican Party—a unique blend of the political and business world. ...

When he moved to the Louisiana Governor’s Mansion in 2008, he completed the perfect combination of a social and fiscal conservative with both Washington and executive experience. ...

With the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast as a region, Louisiana has lower than average unemployment.  There are jobs in Louisiana and increased energy costs had helped the important oil industry.

The BP oil spill thrust Bobby Jindal back into the spotlight. Since then, Gov. Jindal is everywhere as a hands-on man of the people and a no-nonsense governor. ...

First, Jindal presented an early plan to dredge around the barrier islands and create sand berms to keep the oil from getting to shore. This plan was the right way to go but, as if they were the keystone cops, the Obama White House, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency stood in the way of keeping oil away from Louisiana.  ...

Second, when the Obama Administration banned all offshore drilling, Jindal went to bat for the workers of his state and fought the government in court and won.  When the Obama Administration said they way would find another way to ban drilling and kill jobs in the Gulf region, Jindal gathered the people. 

In what was called a “Rally for Economic Survival” to protest the moratorium, 11,000 people showed up outside the Cajundome in Lafayette, La. 

Jindal wants to “send a clear message to Washington, D. C.” The governor said, “Our people don’t want a BP check, our people don’t want an unemployment check, our people want this arbitrary moratorium to end so they can go back to work.” ...

These were the real people that were destroyed by an arbitrary decision by an arbitrary administration. ...

What’s great about Jindal is that he isn’t thinking about the next political job, he’s doing the one he’s in now to the best of his ability. That is what makes a leader; a commodity that is in short supply.  Bobby Jindal is a leader and his future is ahead of him not mired in the past.

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