Louisiana has spoken!
Oct. 22nd, 2007 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cryowizardWell, well, well. Eat this one, my liberal friends.
The Louisiana voters have spoken, and what they said was "Fuck you, democrats!". Yes, federal government and FEMA fucked up big time on Katrina, but the voters know all-well that the federal mess was just the icing on the terrible shit cake created by years of local Democratic neglect of the state and the Big Easy.
The people were so pissed at Kathleen Blanco she decided not to even run for re-election, and then the voters have shown their displeasure with the Dems by giving Walter Boasso just 18% of the vote.
Enter the new conservative governor, Oxford-educated Bobby Jindal, a 36-year-old son of Indian immigrants, taking in the overwhelming 53% of the vote. And guess what -- he's not white. And not black. He doesn't carry the old animosities. And he's young. And conservative.
People simply got tired of old bullshit and tried something new. And all this -- from the state constantly made fun of in New York for backwardness (this from people who elected Spitzer!). I wonder when New Yorkers will grow enough balls to bet on someone like Jindal (provided we even have someone like that on our stale political landscape).
Good luck to the new Governor, may he possess the intelligence and the will to make the lives of people in Louisiana better.
The Louisiana voters have spoken, and what they said was "Fuck you, democrats!". Yes, federal government and FEMA fucked up big time on Katrina, but the voters know all-well that the federal mess was just the icing on the terrible shit cake created by years of local Democratic neglect of the state and the Big Easy.
The people were so pissed at Kathleen Blanco she decided not to even run for re-election, and then the voters have shown their displeasure with the Dems by giving Walter Boasso just 18% of the vote.
Enter the new conservative governor, Oxford-educated Bobby Jindal, a 36-year-old son of Indian immigrants, taking in the overwhelming 53% of the vote. And guess what -- he's not white. And not black. He doesn't carry the old animosities. And he's young. And conservative.
People simply got tired of old bullshit and tried something new. And all this -- from the state constantly made fun of in New York for backwardness (this from people who elected Spitzer!). I wonder when New Yorkers will grow enough balls to bet on someone like Jindal (provided we even have someone like that on our stale political landscape).
Good luck to the new Governor, may he possess the intelligence and the will to make the lives of people in Louisiana better.