What is even worse is that at the time, he continued to press for his bill (touting on his campaign site that his bill still had “a chance”) to the detrement of our getting any offshore oil revenue at all. It was obvious that his bill was not going to pass the Senate. However, he could not afford to have his bill go down in defeat until after he won the 2006 election. So he continued to push his failed bill, taking the risk that no offshore oil revenue bill would pass, until he was assured that his path to Governor was not shot down by an embarassing loss in the House.

Of course, the Jindal spin machine continued to work away. This is why voters and many in the media will continue to parrot the absolute lie that Bobby Jindal got us a fairer share of our offshore oil revenue when in reallity he nearly cost us that share. It is why the WWL tv personalities did not question Scalise when he stated that falsehood.

It seems that many in the media have thrown away the pesky “duty to inform” that they once held dear and instead have clung to the idea that if they dont lick the boots of the people in power, that they will no longer have anything of note to inform the people of because they will be left out of the loop.

It is sad that we have went from “good night, and good luck” to “what press release should we publish as news today Mr. Governor”.