Politico's Chief Political Columnist Does Not Understand Louisiana or Bobby Jindal

God help us that these are the "smart" political minds in Washington. Read the whole thing here at Politico's Roger Simon: Obama 'Calling Out' Bobby Jindal's 'Hypocrisy'

Let us go to the interview and look at this part:

MITCHELL: Now there's also a thin-skinned aspect to the President at times. You wrote in the Politico interview, discussing the role of the government in the oil spill, you said some of the same – this is quoting the President – 'some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying do something are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much. Some of the same people who were saying the President needs to show leadership and solve this problem are some of the same folks who, just a few months ago, were saying, this guy is trying to engineer a takeover of our society through the federal government that is going to restrict our freedoms.' So he's reacting to these criticisms.

SIMON: He is. And that troubles him, and that's one of the two moments I think where he showed a genuine irritation there, and – well, three moments. There, dealing with Congress on the same way: 'Congress, if I had gone to six months before for extra money they would have said no,' and also with the press, a continuing irritation of his. When he sees people like Bobby Jindal, you know, standing up, screaming about more federal action, more federal aid, well, six months ago, that's not the person that Bobby Jindal was. He was a small-government, no federal aid kind of guy. And the President is calling out those people for hypocrisy.

I am praying that is not actually what Obama is thinking but what the columnist and reporter is thinking. If not we are really in trouble!!

I don't know how we got to the point that people that are for small Government get labeled as some extreme Libertarian. Bobby Jindal nor the Southern Coastal Governors have never been like this. Also I must have missed somewhere that Jindal was against all Federal Aid!!! When did that happen?

Further this accident happened in FEDERAL WATERS. We Louisiana are quite knowledgeable of Federal waters since the FEDS take on Oil Revenue skyrockets and out take goes down when he hit these regions. Has it occured to this poltical mind WHY President Obama can just declare a drilling can in these waters? Has he asked where this grant of authority come from and what is based on?

Related to that you can barely sneeze down in Coastal Louisiana without having to ask permission of the Federal Govt. From the Corp of Engineers to various other agencies there is significant federal presence, regulation, etc. We are seeing this come into play now in how slow it takes Louisiana to get approval for common sense measures to save our Coast against the spill.

Is he not aware of this?