BOBBY JINDAL IS YR NEW FAVORITE SARAH PALIN

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[And now is the part in the blog where we do political commentary for our own amusement – feel free to skip as usual (though I recommend the Daily Show clip), but we’ll have recession bondage queens and hot nude divorce lawyers coming up soon, so be sure to come back!]

So yr the GOP, and yr hated enemy, President Barry HUSSEIN Obama (right), is about to give his first SOTU address. And he’s probably going to blow the roof off the dump. So you need someone to deliver yr party response that can follow an act like that.

What do you do?

You send in Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, that’s what.

Oh snap!

You know you’ve bombed when people in yr own party say, “Dude, you sucked.”

Still, there’s something disingenuous about all the conservative backlash at Jindal’s speech – I mean, he pretty much telegraphed the whole thing from his Sunday talk show gigs, so it’s not like he caught them off-guard. And nothing he said deviated from the official GOP party line. Except for the part about actually admitting that “Republicans lost your trust, and rightly so”. And actually bringing up Katrina as an example of govt failure (under a GOP admin).

I’m sure he’d have got better conservative reviews if he’d skipped those two items. Admit past mistakes? Dude, this is politics. You just don’t DO that. He might as well have said: “How do I know you can’t trust the govt to fix anything? Look at the last eight years under GOP management. Hell, look what they did to MY state. If my own party can’t find its own collective ass with both hands, how are those terror-hugging taxaholic libtards in the Democratic Communist Party going to help you?”

Still, it’s amazing to hear even David Brooks saying that this is no time to repeat the same old GOP mantra of small govt and tax cuts. Bookmark that, because yr not likely to hear it from a Republican’s mouth again.

The other interesting angle to all this – as Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox have already pointed out – is that this is the third time the GOP has struck out trying to find someone (anyone) in their ranks who can counter Obama’s mojo, even if that only means not being an Old White Guy. Sarah Palin came close, but she served on a losing ticket, and she does have a tendency to go off-message for no real reason. Michael Steele? Too hip-hop for the Midwest, plus he has a tendency to make one-armed midget jokes that only other Republicans find funny. Jindal must have seemed like a bargain in comparison – who knew he’d launch his 2012 presidential campaign this early?

Anyway, it’s only really a problem for the GOP because, in the absence of a Party Star, their default spokesperson seems to be Joe The Plumber, who no one in the GOP seems to have the sense to disown as an attention-seeking nincompoop.

In the meantime, it’s not all bad for Jindal. He still has Rush Limbaugh in his corner, after all. And at least he didn’t deploy the “Obama = AntiChrist and/or Hitler” line.

Unlike some people.

PRODUCTION NOTE: Via dinopollard . And you really should watch it just for the awesome reactions from Jason Jones during the interviews. Which is exactly how any rational person should react – yet CNN and Fox News give these dingbats airtime as though they’re worth taking seriously. Bonus points for the Keyser Soze bit at the end.

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