Jindal faces recall effort

The country has other governors who are probably worse than Louisiana's Bobby Jindal. (The names Mitch Daniels, Matt Blunt, and Haley Barbour come to mind.) Still, Jindal is miserable enough, and it serves the GOP right that Republican Jindal is now facing a recall effort, after the Republicans abused the recall process so fluently.

If it's a slow news day, we can always find something to post about Jindal - like the fact that he doesn't believe in the constitutional clause prohibiting religious tests for public office. But now the big, bright Bobby Jindal balloon that's been bouncing along the Louisiana skyline may be running out of bunk gas.

The Louisiana Secretary of State's office says a recall petition has been filed to oust the governor from power. Jindal is the fifth Louisiana politician to face such an effort since the Republicans in the legislature voted themselves a huge pay increase - which Jindal supports. The petition was prompted by the politicians' support of the pay hike.

This recall drive serves the GOPee right because they mounted a bogus recall effort against the previous governor, Democrat Kathleen Blanco. That effort was just so clearly a "do over" attempt that everyone saw right through it. The Republicans launched the recall petition solely because they were sore losers. Nothing more, nothing less.

The GOP thought police's recall drive against Democrat Gray Davis in California was actually successful. Davis wasn't a great governor, but the recall effort showed that all the Republicans at that time needed to do to win in the long run was lose an election and throw a shitfit about the results.

It's amazing that it's taken so much Republican incompetence for a GOP governor to face a serious recall petition, while all a Democrat needs to do to get recalled is win an election and make the wingnuts cwy.

(Source: http://wwl.com/Recall-attempt-mounted-against-Jindal/2498158)