• Bobby Jindal

    Louisiana GOP Governor Bobby Jindal and the Exorcism Story

    Louisiana GOP Governor Bobby Jindal’s exorcism

    Jim Geraghty wonders if it is important today of all days to remember Republican Governor Bobby Jindal’s experience with an exorcism, dating back to 1994.

    Since Jindal is being touted as the anti-Obama and the great GOP 2012 Hope in delivering tonight’s GOP response to President Obama’s faux State of the Union Speech, it is.

    David Brody has more about Jindal’s story about demons and spiritual warfare.

    Republican Bobby Jindal has a big moment tonight. The national response he gives to President Obama’s speech tonight could be the launching pad for a 2012 presidential run.

    If the Louisiana Governor runs for President in 2012, he’ll have a lot going for him. Fiscal conservatives love him, social conservatives love him and he would literally be a fresh face for the GOP. Not your typical GOP politician if you know what I mean. Plus, he has the intellectual heft to go up against President Obama. But there’s one incident from his past that may scare some folks.

    In 1994 when Jindal was in his early 20’s he wrote an article entitled, “Beating a Demon: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare.” In it he describes being present for what many would refer to as a spiritual exorcism. It involved his best friend  at the time “Susan.”  It is a truly captivating read full of talk of demons, screaming, praying, crosses, peace, etc. In many ways the whole experience left Jindal with more questions than answers but you can bet that if Jindal runs this topic will come up big time.

    The Brody File has read the entire article but had to pay $1.50. To do the same, click here. However, The Brody File has provided a major excerpt of it below. This is in Jindal’s own words and it is essential reading.

    I’m sure some will read this and afterwards try to label Jindal as someone with strange religious views. But in typical Jindal fashion, he dissects the situation intellectually. He experienced something that clearly had a major impact in his life. Now if he does run for President, this incident will be under the microscope and he’ll be put on the couch by the mainstream media.

    Read the piece and reflect.

    Then, the Exit Question: Can Jindal transcend some pretty strange and scary religious practices to run for the Presidency?


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  • Barack Obama,  David Petraeus,  George W. Bush,  Iraq,  Iraq War

    President Obama To Order ALL U.S. Combat Troops Out of Iraq by August 2010

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    Political cartoon by Michael Ramirez

    So much for deadlines and timetables since the United States won the Iraq War with “The Surge” that both Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid (above) and Obama opposed.

    President Barack Obama plans to order that all U.S. combat troops be withdrawn from Iraq by August 2010, administration officials said Tuesday, ending the war that defined his upstart presidential campaign three months later than he had promised.

    Obama’s plan would pull out all combat troops 19 months after his inauguration, although he had promised repeatedly during the 2008 campaign that he would withdraw them 16 months after taking office. That schedule, based on removing roughly one brigade a month, was predicated on commanders determining that it would not endanger U.S. troops left behind or Iraq’s fragile security.

    Pledging to end the war in 16 months helped to build enormous grass-roots support for Obama’s White House bid.

    The withdrawal plan — an announcement could come as early as this week — calls for leaving a large contingent of troops behind, between 30,000 and 50,000 troops, to advise and train Iraqi security forces and to protect U.S. interests.

    Also staying beyond the 19 months would be intelligence and surveillance specialists and their equipment, including unmanned aircraft, according to two administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan has not been made public.

    The complete withdrawal of American forces will take place by December 2011, the period by which the U.S. agreed with Iraq to remove all troops.

    Currently there are 142,000 troops in Iraq and by leaving 30-50,000 troops, there will still be plenty of soldiers there that can take up arms if conditions warrant.

    So, who gets the credit for ending the Iraq War?

    It should go to President Bush and General Petraeus whose “SURGE” pretty much ended the hostilities.

    Marine Maj. Gen. John Kelly, who just left his job overseeing U.S. operations in Anbar Province, said Tuesday that he saw violence drop to an almost “meaningless” level over the past year.

    Kelly told reporters Tuesday that in the area that was the home ground of the Sunni insurgency, American combat forces don’t have enough to do and most could have pulled out months ago.

    “There is still a security issue there, but in the province I just left the (Iraqi) army and the police are more than handling the remnants of what used to be al-Qaida,” Kelly said. “There’s other parts of Iraq that aren’t going quite as well but all of Iraq is doing pretty well.”

    Exit Question: Will President Bush get any credit for ending the war? Or for just starting it? And the 4,200 plus killed and 31,000 injured?


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  • Arlen Specter,  Michael Steele,  Olympia Snowe,  Republican National Committee,  Susan Collins

    Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele Says He’s Open to Cut Off Specter, Collins and Snow from GOP Funds

    RNC Chairman Michael Steele told Neil Cavuto that he is open to cutting GOP funding for the 3 Senate traitors who voted for the largest spending bill in US history. Steele says he will wait and see what the state GOP parties decide about the traitors. Senators Specter, Snowe and Collins voted in favor of the trillion dollar pork-bloated bill.

    Good bloviating by Steele but when the rubber meets the road, it is ONLY the 8o year old Specter who is up in 2010 that this really affects. The GOP will eventually lose these three sets in the Northeast unless they rebuild the party and recruit some better candidates.

    So, the GOP has a dilemma.

    Exit Question: Does the RNC support moderate U.S.Senators who are meeting the needs of their blue state constituents and vote GOP most of the time or do they throw incumbent and long-time Senators over the side because of a few votes?


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  • Del.icio.us Links

    links for 2009-02-24

    • J. Edgar Hoover is necessary to square the soaring liberal rhetoric on civil liberties with the atrocious civil liberties records of liberal presidents. With an ideology extolling civil liberties crashing into its record of smashing civil liberties, ideologues reshape the facts to fit the ideology. The blame-Hoover template asks readers to believe that the president takes orders from the director of the FBI rather than the reverse. It portrays the world-class arm-twister Lyndon Johnson as a man prone to crying uncle, Woodrow Wilson as secretly opposing his administration's policies, and the Kennedys acceding to electronic surveillance on Martin Luther King only for his own protection.
    • As he did with the Mayors on Friday, President Obama in the State Dining Room just told the nation's governors that he would not hesitate to call them out if they push wasteful programs from their stimulus dollars.
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    • Congress would bestow the status of federal civil unions on same-sex marriages and civil unions granted at the state level, thereby conferring upon them most or all of the federal benefits and rights of marriage. But there would be a condition: Washington would recognize only those unions licensed in states with robust religious-conscience exceptions, which provide that religious organizations need not recognize same-sex unions against their will. The federal government would also enact religious-conscience protections of its own. All of these changes would be enacted in the same bill.
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      The religious portion would be ruled unconstitutional paving the way for federally accepted gay marriage.
      No thanks.
    • And as noted Friday, the markets have been heading down, pretty sharply. Since Obama's election, there's been quite a bit of ominous news for the markets coming from the administration — probably not sufficient to drive down stock prices by themselves, but clearly incapable to mitigate other bad economic factors. We've seen anxiety about the lack of detail in Geithner's plan, massive government borrowing squeezing out capital that would otherwise be available to the private sector, a dread of future tax hikes, and an overall sense that those running Washington see corporate America as a scapegoat/villain/punching bag, not a partner in building prosperity. Oh, and in order to build support for his plan, the president is declaring the economy is on the verge of "catastrophe."
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      Nate Silver should stick to baseball and flacking for the DNC
    • President Obama is eager to seek a bipartisan solution to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security, people who have spoken with him say, but he is running into opposition from his party’s left and from Democratic Congressional leaders who contend that his political capital would be better spent on health care and other priorities.
    • Republicans are hatching a political comeback by dusting off a strategic playbook written nearly two decades ago.

      Its themes: Unite against Democrats’ economic policy, block and counter health care reform and tar them with spending scandals.

      Those represent the political trifecta that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich bet on in 1994 to produce a historic Republican takeover of Congress.

      Now, some Republicans believe President Barack Obama’s one-two push on the economy and health care reform is setting the stage for a new round of significant gains, if not a total takeover.

      “There are two models that Republicans are looking at,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
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      The Dems are worried that Obama may overreach and hence this spun piece

    • Lou Correa, a Democratic state senator from Santa Ana, refused to vote for the budget package that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders fashioned until a relatively tiny amendment was made that would give Orange County an injection of $35 million a year in state funds.
      Meanwhile, another budget vote, that of Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia, was nailed down after another provision was inserted, allowing Glendora, a city in his district, to retain about $2.6 million a year in redevelopment project property taxes that otherwise would go to other local governments and schools in Los Angeles County.
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      And, the leadership from the Governor has been where?