{"id":1961,"date":"2008-01-15T07:16:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T12:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2008-01-15T07:16:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T12:16:55","slug":"2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1961","title":{"rendered":"2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I am nowhere close to finished deciding who I want to see get the GOP nomination for ’08, I have a name on my short list for 2016<\/a>.\u00a0 Michelle Malkin covers Bobby Jindal’s inauguration as Louisiana’s first non-white governor since Reconstruction:<\/p>\n

The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette<\/font><\/strong><\/a> welcomes Jindal:<\/p>\n

Today, Bobby Jindal becomes governor of Louisiana. He will face major challenges in his new position, particularly as he strives for adoption of his No. 1 goal – rewriting the state\u2019s ethics code. Determined to make Louisiana ethics the \u201cgold standard\u201d for the nation, he will call a special session to deal only with ethics reform. If he fails, he will continue calling special sessions until the reform package is adopted.<\/p>\n

We believe he can win the ethics reform battle and meet all his other challenges, which include hurricane recovery measures, health-care improvements, economic reform, improvements in education, successfully combating crime, increasing safety for Louisiana citizens and analyzing and monitoring state spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Reforming Louisiana” would seem to be in a league with “Red Sox winning the Series” or “Reforming Jersey\u00a0City”; impossible jobs that can be done (provided you get someone like a Curt Schilling or Brett Schundler or Bobby Jindal on the job.\u00a0 What do <\/em>they have in common?)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jindal has proved himself in the arena of government service. We first took notice of him in 1996, when he was appointed secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. That put him in charge of 12,000 employees and a $4 billion budget – in his first government job. He inherited a $400 million budget deficit and, in a relatively short period of time, turned it into a $220 million budget surplus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If there’s anyone on the “Jindal ’16” committee reading this blog, please drop me a line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I am nowhere close to finished deciding who I want to see get the GOP nomination for ’08, I have a name on my short list for 2016.\u00a0 Michelle Malkin covers Bobby Jindal’s inauguration as Louisiana’s first non-white governor since Reconstruction: The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette welcomes Jindal: Today, Bobby Jindal becomes governor of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}