Hypocrite Alert

I'm sorry. I usually try to limit myself to one article a day, but I have to add this little tid bit.

On June 2, Bobby Jindal wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to lift the federal moratorium on deep water drilling.

The same Bobby Jindal who, on May 24, held a press conference wherein he castigated the federal government for failing to adequately respond to the disaster at the British Petroleum well drilled by the Deep Water Horizon rig.

On May 24, in criticizing the federal response to the British Petroleum disaster, he said, "We're literally talking about defending a way of life down here in Louisiana."

On June 2, in requesting the President to lift the moratorium on drilling more wells like the one in the British Petroleum disaster, he said, "The last thing we need is to enact public policies that will certainly destroy thousands of existing jobs while preventing the creation of thousands more."

Really, Governor? Is that really the last thing we need.

I'm not actually sure what "the last thing we need" would be on my list of last things we needed, but way up close to the top of my list of first things we needed would be for our leaders to stop being hypocrites.

Goodness, don't these folks ever stop? Doesn't anyone ever listen? Do we all have such short memories that they can say anything they want, and change it whenever they want, whenever it suits their interests, and none of us even notice?

Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees! Hypocrites!