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Jindal's Cause Macabre

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That's the title of James Gill's column in today's New Orleans Times-Picayune.  LINKYou never know, when Gov. Bobby Jindal gets a bee in his bonnet, whether he is acting out of conviction or a desire to burnish his credentials with the Cro-Magnon wing of the GOP. If Jindal is anywhere near as smart as advertised, the latter must explain, say, his support for Creationism in biology class. His latest crusade -- death to child rapists -- won't do him any political harm either, and is surely a distraction from pressing matters of state. Still, maybe he really wants them dead at that. Jindal professes himself "outraged over the U.S. Supreme Court's absurd decision to overturn a death penalty sentence" for Patrick Kennedy of Harvey, convicted in the brutal rape of an 8-year-old girl and the only death row inmate in America who had not committed murder...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).