POLITICS IN THE GULF – AT 8:06 P.M. ET:  I was listening to Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana on the radio today.  He's a remarkable man.  While he talks a mile a minute, he always has plenty to say, and it's worth hearing.

Jindal was laying out an indictment of the federal government's role in handling the Gulf oil spill.  It was a staggering list of stalls, failures, non-decisions and evasions.  The governor provided details and evidence.

If Jindal's indictment is true, and I personally believe his case is solid and convincing, one must almost inevitably come to the conclusion that Washington is trying to slow and damage relief efforts, in the service of a fanatical environmental agenda.  We alluded to that possibility in comments about the spill yesterday.  Remember, to the religiously committed leftists, bad news is good news, because it affirms their critique of society.  In their minds, bad news will lead to better policies, and thus good news.  In the meantime, they are indifferent to the suffering and economic losses of our Southern states.

This isn't surprising.  For almost half a century we watched the left show a marked indifference to the carnage in our big cities.  Bring up crime and you were either called a racist, or subjected to a tirade about the "socio-economic" causes of mass murder.  The human beings were of no significance.  They were useful bodies in a social crusade.

I'm afraid we got, in the 2008 election, exactly what we of our persuasion feared – a true leftist president, not a liberal, for the first time in our history.  And he may make enough people dependent on him and his schemes to change the course of American history for decades.  Let us hope not.

June 30, 2010