Gov.Jindal may reject stimulus money

Louisiana faces a possible $2 billion budget shortfall next year, and the state is being hit hard by unemployment. Yet Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), rumored to be a future presidential candidate, said this weekend that he may turn down the roughly $3.8 billion for the state in the economy recovery package, which is expected to create 50,000 jobs:

We’ll have to review each program, each new dollar to make sure that we understand what are the conditions, what are the strings and see whether it’s beneficial for Louisiana to use those dollars,” Jindal said.

Jindal seems to be taking an even harder line than his colleagues, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC), who both may accept stimulus money while opposing the stimulus legislation. Jindal is scheduled to give the official GOP response to President Obama’s address next Tuesday.

MCL comment I agree with Paul Begala, these Republican governors states shouldn't get any support and when their state far further behind let the likes of Bobby Jindal explained why they chose not to support the stimulus for their states. Bobby Jindal is trying to position himself for 2012 by bow downing to the Newt and the extreme right of the republican and he's going to find himself being the younger clone of John McCain from 2008. Another tidbit on Bobby Jindal I don't see what's about him that makes the Republicans so excite.To me Bobby Jindal is the political equal to Darko, I watch the dude a couple of times and he's boring as hell. If you thought Jeb speaking style was bad Bobby could could put a corpse to sleep.