Nobody cares.
I see Louisiana governor and ex-somebody Bobby Jindal is still taking to the op-ed pages in a desperate attempt to convince his Republican party to pay attention to him. His latest column is an ode to himself and his great bravery in standing up to The Gays, because he is
teh conservative awesome, as the kids say these days.
As the fight for religious liberty moves to Louisiana, I have a clear message for any corporation that contemplates bullying our state: Save your breath. [...]
Some corporations have already contacted me and asked me to oppose this [religious freedom] law. I am certain that other companies, under pressure from radical liberals, will do the same. They are free to voice their opinions, but they will not deter me.
If you're the Koch brothers you have politicians lining up to write
columns about how wonderful you are. Gov. Bobby Jindal, the poor lout, has to write op-eds praising himself over dinner. He probably had to even run the spell-checker himself.
Polls indicate that the American consensus is changing — but like many other believers, I will not change my faith-driven view on this matter, even if it becomes a minority opinion.
LOVE ME, YOU BASTARDS. I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE. WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO, PLAY GUITAR UNDER YOUR WINDOWS AT NIGHT?
Liberals have decided that if they can’t win at the ballot box, they will win in the boardroom. It’s a deliberate strategy. And it’s time for corporate America to make a decision.
I see the Free Markets are no longer the best and purest expression of democracy. That is a shame, because
public opinion has similarly abandoned Republicans, leaving stragglers to wallow in a familiar morass of
states' rights this and
our heritage that, arguments which would be more noble were they not so routinely trotted out in defense of the otherwise indefensible. But yes, let us all gather 'round the fire and listen to tales of Bobby Jindal standing firm against the forces of Corporate America, companies who are free to turn the Louisiana landscape into a chunky toxic stew but whose interference in the state's history of good, old-fashioned prideful bigotry has gone too far and then some.
Really, this is a maudlin effort. It reeks of desperation and attention-seeking. But if the New York Times considers important people praising themselves for their own convictions to be op-ed material, could the rest of us be permitted at least a line or two celebrating our own merits? I have very strong opinions about certain species of trees—surely that would be worth a few sentences. I once knew a parrot who was quite certain of who's a pretty boy—the conviction with which he said it seems column-worthy material. Perhaps neither of us are standing up to the evil liberalism of Big Corporatism, but we are still difference-makers in our own way.