Gov. Bobby Jindal may have a majority of the Republican Party fooled into believing that he is the future of the GOP, but I won’t buy it.
Jindal’s lack of hesitation to throw Mitt Romney under the bus after losing the election shows me exactly what I expected to see from a governor with a complete lack of confidence to do the right thing.
As I’ve written countless times before, Jindal has dealt this state disappointment after disappointment.
His education restructuring will prove to be yet another big government solution to a problem better solved at the local level.
His budget cuts to things like higher education and hospitals shows a man scrambling to place his priorities in the right order—and failing miserably.
He campaigned on ethics reform, yet those laws don’t apply to the governor’s office and the governor’s office has become more secretive since he’s been governor.
Let’s not forget the $2 billion surplus Jindal inherited from Kathleen Blanco, which he spent in his first year of office. Since then the state’s budget has ran a deficit.
And yet another disappointment we’ve seen from the would-be financial wiz-kid is his inability to manage the state’s budget.
There’s also his twisting of the law concerning the use of one-time monies, which some fiscal conservatives in the House have called into investigation.
How is that this man thinks he’s going to unite the national party behind him, when the fiscal hawks in the state house are asking the Attorney General to review whether or not the governor is even following the law?
Not to mention his incessant campaigning for Romney, which ended with Jindal playing the role of the ex-boyfriend who would rather just pretend Romney never existed.
If Jindal wants to lead the GOP into the future, not only does he need to get his house in order, but he also needs to be an actual Republican.
He’s yet to have proven to me, or anyone else whom dares speak critically against the wisdom of Piyush, that he is capable of effectively managing a simple state government.
If Jindal wants to become the new face of the new Republican Party, he’ll need to overcome the many disappointments he’s given to Republicans in his own state.
