Jindal-Obama more alike than you suspect

U.S. House speaker John Boehner has decided to sue President Barrack Obama for “aggressive unilateralism”.  He states that the president displays, “king-like authority at the expense of the American people and their elected legislators.”

Perhaps Louisiana’s House speaker, Chuck Kleckley, should take note and follow suit, for it appears that Bobby Jindal is as guilty as our President.

Jindal just recently ignored the edicts of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), the Louisiana State Superintendent of Education, and both houses of legislators when he vowed to remove Common Core from Louisiana schools.  He also ignored a Louisiana constitutional amendment, approved by a 73% margin of the voters, forbidding the Medicaid Elderly Trust Fund to be used to help balance the state budget.  Additionally, during his reign as governor, he has taken federal funds intended for pre-k services for children, hurricane recovery, homeland security, and costal restoration and used them for purposes other than their original intent.

He unilaterally set in motion his privatization plan for the LSU Health Care System without seeking prior approval from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the very entity responsible for providing the funding for this venture.  As of today, CMMS has refused to fund the plan.  I could document more of Jindal’s continual dictatorial abuses but that list exceeds the allotted space for this commentary.

However, as Jindal continues to crisscross our country with criticisms of President Obama, it becomes more and more apparent that, in actuality, they are quite similar to each other:

Both display minimal personal leadership roles in pushing legislation through the legislature, and are notably absent during legislative budget sessions,

Both refuse to build working relationships with legislators of the opposite party,

Both passed legislation to limit the release of their public documents,

Both remain aloof when dealing with the press,

Both repeatedly use questionable legislative maneuvers to bypass house and senate legislative vote on their actions,

Both repeatedly ignore their respective governing constitutions.

And last, but not least, both jump on whatever political whim they perceive is popular at the time, for they really possess NO core beliefs of their own.

I hope all those Republicans, that reside outside Louisiana, will stop believing Jindal’s political blogs and guest editorials in conservative media and realize that he is simply an Obama in elephant clothing, for he governs with “king-like authority at the expense of the Louisiana people and their elected officials.” 

Is this really the guy you want as your next president?