How come every time a Republican is Catholic, they need to trumpet that in every news story?
As a sign of his ascendant political fortunes, the Republican Party tapped Jindal, a conservative Catholic, to deliver its response to Obama’s first address to Congress on February 24. Obama’s speech is not technically a “State of the Union” address because it’s his first year in office. And speaking of Jindal: Please, please, please reject federal stimulus funding; we’ll get to find out if someone who rejects federal money can get elected dogcatcher in Baton Rouge. Yours truly, Rob Republican governors running for president in 2012 will get attacked for taking any stimulus money, which should make for a deliciously wingnutty primary. Indeed, the list of governors making noise about refusing the cash are all rumored 2012 hopefuls — Palin, Jindal, SC Gov. Mark Sanford, and MS Gov. Haley Barbour. Rick Perry in Texas is also making such noises, but he’s not stupid enough to think he’d play nationally, is he?Apparently not. • Chase Bank CEO Jamie Dimon: “I don’t think just because someone
