Friday, February 27th, 2009 by Bill Swadley.

Well, it now seems that the careless lack of proper vetting due diligence on the part of John McCain when he impulsively chose Sarah Palin as his running mate last year may not have been an isolated incident of Republican bad judgment. Either that, or the people who convinced McCain that Palin would have a positive impact on the ticket are the same misguided, cynical, ideologues who convinced the GOP leadership that Piyush “Bobby” Jindal was their rising star.

It now seems that, just as Palin’s anatomy must have been the major factor in McCain’s choice, Jindal’s skin hue is all it takes to be dubbed, “Future of the Party,” by the old, rich, white guys who are currently facing-down irrelevance with sheer terror.

Everyone agrees that the speech was badly delivered, and the charitable on both sides of the aisle concur that he had a “tough hand to play” and a “hard act to follow,” but now it turns out that, aside from casting misinformed aspersions on volcanic science, JINDAL’S A BIG FAT LIER!

From TPM Muckraker:

Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False

“Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night — about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

Turns out it wasn’t actually, you know, true.” [Read the whole story.]

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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 by Bill Swadley.

I’ve been reading this morning all a the comments all over the media about Piyush “Bobby” Jindal’s address to the nation last night following President Obama’s speech to Congress.

Poor Piyush. Poor Republicans.

From Chris Matthew’s heartfelt, “Oh God,” to the Kenneth-the-page comparisons, it just doesn’t get much worse. I’m just waiting now for the “media bias” recriminations to start echoing from the halls of Fox News and whatever cave from which Rush Limbaugh broadcasts, because, obviously, the liberal media is now going to tear down “Bobby” the way they did Sarah Palin during the election.

When Bush junior first took the presidency, my personal, self-consolation was that, after being embarrassed in the eyes of the rest of the world for the next 4 years, we would never have to endure another Republican in the White House. When the man had another 4 years handed to him, that dream was shattered and replaced with a deep, unyielding cynicism about this country and politics in general.

Last night I watched the first 10 minutes of Jindal’s speech, and rather than becoming incensed at the usual Republic rhetoric (as I expected to), I yawned and changed channels. I didn’t even take an extra moment to ridicule the man. I just moved on.

This may be the best the GOP can do for now. Maybe forever. If so, not only might we never have to endure another Republican in the White House, we may never have to endure Republicans-as-we-know-them in general ever again except and an irrelevant, extremist, fringe group.

The dream is alive.

Those of us on the left and in the center must never become complacent as we watch the Republican Party’s full-bore sprint towards the precipice of terminal irrelevancy, on the other hand, we really don’t need to do much of anything at this point to help push the back wheels off the cliff. They’re doing just fine without our help. At least not while Jindal and Palin are their best hope for the future and they continue to pay homage to their so-called base of ideological extremists rather than trying to find a way to be an agent of positive change in their own right.

[Jinal/Kenneth morph via THE DAILY WHAT]

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