Liberty and Justice for All!

The Blog of New Orleans contains an article that is just plain silly. The author suggests that Jindal should not only veto the pay raise but that he should also veto SB 733 (something I discussed earlier when it was SB 561). As I stated in response over on BoNO:

There is a difference between requesting that Jindal veto the pay raise and requesting that Jindal veto the creationism/ID in schools bill.

Jindal said he was against legislative pay raises that take effect in the current term during the campaign. Requesting that he veto that bill would be a logical request.

However, Jindal had already made it clear that he supports teaching creationism/ID in the classroom. So asking him to veto something that you know he supports is just plain silly and shows that the writer is either ignorant to Jindal’s stance or lacking the common sense to realize that politicians tend to not vote against (or veto) legislation that they support (especially when supporting the legislation appeases his ultra right-wing religious conservative base).

How are we supposed to take the author seriously if he lacks either the common sense or the knowledge required to understand that the suggesting Jindal should veto a bill he supports is plainly absurd.

The author, who remains nameless, does ask an interesting question:

If Jindal doesn’t veto this bill, should he return his degree to Brown? 

No, we should not leave that decision to Jindal. Brown should publicly reject Jindal’s stance on ID being part of ”the best science” and apologize for awarding him a degree since they obviously did not do a good enough job teaching him biology.

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