Your mom dresses you funny

Watching the media response to Bobby Jindal's response to Obama's speech last Tuesday night is nothing short of bizarre. The talking heads on both sides of the political aisle have admitted that Jindal's performance was a disappointment. Conservative editor of the Weekly Standard Fred Barnes on Fox News' Beltway Boys agreed Saturday night that the GOP needs to find somebody new to deliver speeches in the future. Among the big gripes about this disastrous performance were observations that Jindal looked funny and that he talked funny. Seriously.

Conservatives continue to eat their own over superficial idiocy while the liberals make a concerted effort to go after a promising young conservative politician. The liberals have soundly attacked Jindal for disagreeing with Obma's solution to our economic woes. They are shocked that a conservative doesn't agree that destroying the free market system is the best way to fix it. Conservatives had better wake up and start exercising a little self defense. It's ok if the liberals don't like conservatives. We've watched professional actors pretend to be politicians for so long that now we think that all politicians need to be professional actors. There was nothing wrong with the substance of Jindal's speech (at least not after you get past the first couple of minutes of niceties he threw at Obama).

It is a little ironic that we find the assertion that Jindal was speaking down to the audience among the criticisms. This is coming from the folks that are accepting the "economy bad, people need money, print more money, problem fixed" argument. Speaking down seems like a natural enough response. Those that speak out against the spending spree approach to fixing our current economic problems are met with rolling eyes and gasps of exasperation by folks that keep repeating the "we have to do something" line. Unfortunately this response seems to be nearly as likely to come from a conservative pundit as it is from a liberal.

Throwing a can of gasoline on a house fire is doing something. Whether it's a good thing, or not, depends on how much you like the house. If you think the house is worth saving then you might not be so eager for that kind of help. If you've been looking for way to get rid of the old house so you can build one more to your liking, that gasoline doesn't worry you. Obama wants a new house. Bobby likes the old house. I agree with Bobby, and I don't care if he dresses funny.