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Posted on June 22 at 10:42 p.m.

I was a huge Bobby Jindal supporter... that is until his decision to travel to D.C. in the attempt to override President Bush's veto on the SCHIP expansion bill. That move set off a series of alarms that made me start questioning just how conservative Jindal really was. Don't get me wrong, he SAYS all the right things-- but then again... TALK IS CHEAP, eh?

Governor Jindal has a DUTY to veto bills that are bad for the state and/or the citizens of Louisiana. If he is not willing to fulfill that obligation then he needs to step aside and let someone else, whom has a pair, do the business of protecting the taxpayer's money!! (BTW, I am a female professional so please don't bother accusing me of making a "sexist" statement.. :)

On Every legislator a king

Posted on January 24 at 1:46 p.m.

I was very disappointed to see that Rolfe was endorsing Senator McCain. He is a veteran hero for sure.. but he is no conservative sir. What good is "getting things done" if those things are bad for the country? "Getting things done" for the sake of compromising with liberals is not necessarily a good thing. Hitler "got things done".

Our measure of a good leader shouldn't be his ability to compromise and get things done but rather the substance of what he got done and whether or not it was beneficial to the country. It's the substance that is important, not the symbolism.

After scrutinizing his record, I can only conclude that the Senator has an identity crisis if he believes he is a "conservative":

* McCain/Feingold— The most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.

* McCain/Kennedy— The most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.

* McCain/Lieberman— The most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.

* McCain/Kennedy/Edwards— The biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.

* McCain/Reimportation of Drugs— A significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).

* McCain/ACLU- The unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists)

* Led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.

* McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.

On Proud days for Louisiana