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Monday, January 19, 2015

Bobby Jindal's Speech

English: Governor Bobby Jindal at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

‘Let's be honest here, Islam has a problem,’ claims Indian-American politician Bobby Jindal

I just read a pretty interesting speech by Bobby Jindal. I take ethnic pride in Bobby, I always have. The guy is smart as a whick. But he also amuses me in that he is at the other end of the spectrum, especially on social issues. I could start a meme that goes, Things That Bobby Says. But I am also cognizant that on social issues this is a live and let live country. Barack Obama coming to the White House has not been an existential crisis for those who have alternate social views. And so Bobby's social stances are amusing to me, not threatening. Live and let live. I think the next President Of The United States should be someone who will help create the industries of tomorrow. That has got to be the number one quality. And right now I am asking if Bobby might be that person or not. I don't know. The guy is a blip on the radar right now. But then where was Bill Clinton in the polls in 1991? Make it 1989.

To Bobby's credit, thanks to him, I have taken a genuine look at many conservative positions. I have been like, really? You believe that? For example, guns. I watched American Sniper last night at a theater near Times Square. It broke my heart that this dude was felled by a stray bullet. To me that is a gun control issue. Bobby feels differently. But I also give that Bobby's Second Amendment stance is symbolic of the rugged individualism this country was founded on that I find so endearing. I like individualism, I like personal space. I just want that rugged individualism to not be dependent on guns.

Bobby says it is White House or bust for him. I like that attitude.

Thursday, November 06, 2014

2014: Normal

The "Kicking Donkey" party logo is still a well-known symbol for the Democratic Party, despite no longer being the official logo of the party. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In his sixth year, a two term president always loses that mid-term election. This is normal.

I don't know if 2014 is a wave that will go all the way to 2016, or if it means the Supreme Court ruling years ago to open the money flood gates is taking its toll, or that a Republican Congress makes a Democratic White House in 2017 more likely. I don't know.

Why the Senate GOP takeover might actually help Hillary Clinton

Monday, November 03, 2014

If The Senate Goes Republican

President George W. Bush (right) is greeted by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (left) and his wife, Supriya Jolly Jindal (center), on his arrival to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Monday, April 21, 2008, where President Bush will attend the 2008 North American Leaders’ Summit. White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I have not been following this election, but there is no missing the headlines. There is talk the Senate will go Republican. The Clintons have shown up plenty on the campaign trail. If the Senate goes Republican, I think that might be the end of Hillary 2016.

Maybe Hillary never intended to run in the first place. I think she is eager for family time.

Right now I don't see me following the 2016 election with any intensity, other than grabbing headlines here and there.

But I do watch elections. I will be watching Bihar next year with utmost interest.

I think of Bobby Jindal as the dark horse of 2016. The pendulum of democracy might swing, and after eight years of a Democrat, the country might opt for a Republican. That is not to say Obama has not performed well. He has. But the democracy pendulum likes to swing.

Elizabeth Warren is the dark horse on the Democratic side.

Will Hillary run? That still is the million dollar question for 2016.

Bobby has already said it is the White House or bust. Should Hillary run, I wonder what that match up would be like.

Should Bobby make it, I think a lot of people will take a fresh look at the conservative philosophy. Because, going by his face, Bobby should have been a Democrat, right? Not so fast, pal. The guy is whip smart. I find some of his social positions bizarre to fascinating. But as long as they stay in the live and let live category, I am just plain eager to see someone who will help create the industries of tomorrow.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Senator Bobby Jindal

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Bobby 2016, Until Then Adios
Bobby Is Going To Run And Win In 2016
Is Hillary Running?
The Madonna Of Global Politics
2016 Talk

Bobby is better off not running in 2016. He will know in 2015 if Hillary will run. If she will - I think she will - then he is better off not running until 2024. In the mean time he could be a Senator and help bring the GOP into the center. Like Bill Clinton did with the DLC during the Reagan-Bush years.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Pappu, Bobby

Pappu is what my family calls me. And I was born in India, grew up in Nepal.

Bobby Jindal: Our Economy Is Strong
Bobby Saying All The Right Things
Bobby Is Going To Run And Win In 2016

Bobby Jindal: Our Economy Is Strong

Our economy is strong
By Gov. Bobby Jindal
Published Dec 20, 2012 at 9:00 am

Sasol, Benteler, Sutherland, GE Capital, Drax, Pixomondo, Oceaneering. Remember those names. They are just some of the companies that announced this year they are making game-changing investments in Louisiana to create thousands of jobs for our people.

In 2012 alone, we have announced projects that will result in over 24,000 new jobs and more than $18 billion in capital investment, bringing our five-year total to more than 63,000 new jobs and more than $28 billion in new capital investment. Indeed, across Louisiana, we've announced economic development wins in the energy, technology, film, digital media and manufacturing industries that are diversifying and growing Louisiana's economy.

In Westlake, Sasol is investing between $16 and $21 billion in an integrated (gas-to-liquids) and ethane cracker complex that will create over 7,000 direct and indirect jobs. This is the largest manufacturing investment in Louisiana's history and one of the largest foreign direct investments in our country's history.

In northwest Louisiana, Benteler chose our state over more than a dozen others to invest $900 million at the Port of Caddo-Bossier to develop a two-phase facility that will include both a seamless steel tube mill and a steel mill. This project will create more 2,200 direct and indirect jobs.

After looking at hundreds of cities, GE Capital chose New Orleans for the creation of a new IT Center of Excellence that will result in over 600 direct and indirect jobs. In Baton Rouge, Pixomondo has a new visual effects studio that will result in more than 120 new direct and indirect jobs.

Drax Biomass International will be investing more than $120 million to build a wood pellet facility in northeast Louisiana and a storage-and-shipping facility at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge. This project will result in over 200 direct and indirect jobs.

In central Louisiana, Sutherland Global Services is opening a business process outsourcing center that will result in roughly 1,000 direct and indirect jobs. Around the bayou, Oceaneering International is making a $5 million capital investment to expand production of the company's product: remotely operated vehicles. This win will result in over 600 direct and indirect jobs.

The list of job wins goes on and on, but the bottom line is that companies are investing in Louisiana because of our strong business climate and our incomparable workforce. Louisiana—a state that once lagged behind in business climate rankings—now ranks in the top 10 of three major national business climate rankings.

We have been among the top 10 states for private sector job growth since 2008. Per capita personal income has increased by more than $2,700 in the last four years. Most importantly, for the past four years in a row, more people are now moving into Louisiana than moving out, reversing a trend of more than two decades where we were losing our sons and daughters to other states.

None of this happened by accident. We've cut taxes, revamped our workforce training program, passed tough new ethics laws, passed bold and transformative education reforms, and have streamlined state government to make it more effective and less expensive for taxpayers. We've made great progress, but we cannot rest on our laurels. In order to keep fostering an environment where businesses want to invest, we need to make our business climate even stronger.

The next step is an overhaul of our tax code. Our tax code is too complex, too littered with loopholes, and too burdensome on families and businesses. We need to make our tax code fairer, flatter and simpler for Louisiana families and businesses. Unquestionably, there will be some who see tax reform as an opportunity to raise taxes on hardworking families and small businesses, but that's exactly the wrong approach. Make no mistake—this will not be an effort to raise revenue and grow government. Instead, we must revamp our tax code in order to spur more private-sector job growth. That's our mission for the upcoming year.

I want to make two things very clear as 2012 comes to a close. First, without a doubt, this past year has been a strong year for Louisiana's economy. Unemployment is down, business climate rankings are up, and the private sector is expanding. Second, and just as important, we've still got work to do to make Louisiana the best place in the world for businesses to invest and create jobs.

Bobby, The Biology Major
Bobby Saying All The Right Things
Biden, Bobby
Bobby Is Going To Run And Win In 2016

In India, a Hindu nationalist rebuilds image with Muslim votes

Many politicians within his own party refuse to work with him, fearing he will taint their image. .... Roughly 25 percent who cast their ballots for the BJP this election were Muslim ..... That’s up from just 3 percent in 2007 .... a growing number of young educated Muslims are opting for the BJP .... They believe Modi is the most viable option for sustained growth and career opportunities in the state. ..... Given Muslims' low literacy rates, low rate of employment in government jobs, and lagging per capita income across India, Sufi Saint Mehbubali Baba Saheb says life for the minority religious group is much better under Modi’s rule. A volunteer with the BJP, he points out that since the Gujarat riots, there has been no communal violence in the state. Some 10 percent of Muslims have government jobs and their per capita income is the highest in the country. .... 40 percent of children are still malnourished, and hundreds of thousands of Muslims live in slums because they can’t find affordable housing. ..... “Modi has very little to offer to India’s villages, to its agriculture sector and to the very large constituencies that make up Indian politics,” says political analyst Ashish Nandy, adding that Modi’s constituency is the middle class. “While the middle class may make up a significant portion of the country, over two-thirds of the Indian population does not fall in that category. I think that will be more his undoing than being [known as] a master of inciting a blood bath.”

Nepal PM calls for Indian investments in auto, hydropower sectors

the overall GDP growth rate of the country, which has been hovering at a mere 3 per cent since the last four decades..... “We want to take this figure to a double-digit number in the next three years,” he said, adding that the Government is proactive in attracting Foreign Direct Investment to achieve high economic growth. ..... Development of hydropower can overcome the current power shortage in the country, speed up tourism and agriculture development, and enhance production capability of the country through rapid industrialisation, Bhattarai said. At present, the country faces a load shedding of 7-10 hours a day, thus impacting various other industrial and commercial activities. ..... “There is a large cigarette factory which is defunct and can be utilised as an auto manufacturing factory,” he added.

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Barack Obama

Some alleged experts still think we’ll have a deal before we go over the cliff. Maybe they know their business, but I don’t see it.

Barack Obama's dual agenda

letting the fiscal cliff kick in may better serve his other main incentive: dividing and weakening the Republican Party...... The GOP is suffering tremendous political stress while the standoff continues, and that stress will become unbearable once tax hikes and defence sequesters kick in. Mr Boehner will have to come up with a Republican position that Democrats can accept, and it is likely to be very close to the offer Mr Obama put forth on Monday. ..... A vote over such a compromise deal would tear the GOP's congressional faction apart. ..... Democrats could achieve a fiscal-cliff deal by winning the votes of a couple of dozen moderate Republicans, but such a move would be electoral suicide for any Republican who tried it. Republicans will need to form a large bloc to give themselves cover for a compromise, but the larger the bloc, the more dangerous the division between the party's tea-party and moderate factions will be for its overall future. ...... Fostering the civil war in the Republican Party is crucial to Mr Obama's chances of getting any part of his agenda passed over the next four years. The top items on that agenda are climate-change legislation, immigration reform, and (suddenly) gun control, along with keeping up some measure of progressive stimulus until the economy is fully recovering ..... he can look forward to elections against a divided, angry GOP in 2014 ..... Republicans have locked themselves into an impossible position on budgeting by simultaneously vowing never to allow taxes hikes, and passing long-term budgets that create a fiscal cliff necessitating tax hikes. It's in Mr Obama's interests to gain Republican cooperation to work out the best possible deal, but if that's not forthcoming, it's also in his interests to use the impossibility of the Republicans' position to weaken them..... 'we have to break the Republicans on taxes.'

Louisiana economy is strong, Jindal declares

the right climate of low taxes, a revamped workforce training program, tough new ethics laws and bold education reform .... Louisiana being one of the top 10 states for private sector job growth ..... "In 2012 alone, we have announced projects that will result in over 24,000 new jobs and more than $18 billion in capital investment, bringing our five-year total to more than 63,000 new jobs and more than $28 billion in new capital investment" .... "Our tax code is too complex, too littered with loopholes, and too burdensome on families and businesses," he wrote. "We need to make our tax code fairer, flatter and simpler for Louisiana families and businesses."

Setting the Stage for a Second Term
Gujarat election result: Narendra Modi pulls off hat-trick, will it be Rahul vs him in 2014?

Modi won 115 seats, just a couple short of his previous tally of 117 seats in the 2007 election. Modi's victory came against the backdrop of indifference, even opposition, from a section of the RSS, hostility of an influential and tenacious faction of the civil society and Congress's tacit understanding with BJP rebel Keshubhai Patel who sought to rally his community against the chief minister. ..... his politics which combines uncompromising Hindutva with an unsentimental focus on development. .... the risk of putting off allies like Nitish Kumar and the political risk of a Muslim consolidation behind Congress.

Narendra Modi juggernaut rolls on, BJP to form govt in Gujarat
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Friday, December 14, 2012

Bobby, The Biology Major

This is the Bobby I like.

Bobby Jindal in The Wall Street Journal
The End of Birth-Control Politics

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced its support last month for selling oral contraceptives over the counter without a prescription in the United States. I agree with this opinion, which if embraced by the federal government would take contraception out of the political arena.