Holding out for a hero: GOP division.

I don’t know why Bobby Jindal, the Republican party’s Great Brown Hope, agreed to give the GOP response to Obama’s speech last night. Supposedly a privilege, this more often turns out to be a fools errand. Indeed, the only successful opposition response I can recall in recent years was given by Senator Jim Webb. Generally, however, the poor sap offered the chance to go up against the President is on a hiding to nothing: the man in charge has the full majesty of his office behind him; the opposition spokesman sits in a wee room on their own waiting for their chance to give a speech no-one is very interested in anyway…

Even allowing for that, however, the reviews for Jindal are in and, eh, they’re not so good. Brutal in fact. The governor of Louisiana might be well advised to keep to his promise of skipping the 2012 Presidential election.