by Greg Palast
Exclusive to Buzzflash.com
2.24.09
Damn that Abe Lincoln. When Louisiana and Mississippi seceded from the Union, a sensible president would have sent them a box of chocolates with a note, “Goodbye and good riddance.”
Tonight, following Barack Obama’s budget presentation to Congress, effectively the president’s first State of the Union Address, the Republicans have chosen to give their party’s response, the governor of the state that wanted to leave the Union, Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal.
Jindal’s going to tell us that Barack Obama is a terrible President because Obama wants to require states like Louisiana to extend unemployment insurance to – get this – the unemployed! (Technically, the federal government would pay 100% of the cost of reforming Louisiana’s and Mississippi’s Scrooge-sized benefit requirements.)
via Greg Palast » Damn that Lincoln: Abe’s to blame for Jindal
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LOL. Can we still give Mistexiana a box of chocolates and a good riddance? Gotta love Abes GOP (and the damn dem racists of the south). This county’s too big for the too of us…