It seems ancient history now, things are moving so fast. But just a few weeks ago, LA Gov. Bobby Jindal delivered the Republican response to President Obama's major address to Congress.
One of his cute lines was mocking some of the stimulus bill's funding for what he derisively called "volcano monitoring."
Never mind that this is serious work and that it gives early warnings of volcano eruptions to help save people's lives by evacuating them when necessary.
Now a bit of proof of the pudding. Alaska's Mount Redoubt, 100 miles from Anchorage, erupted last night. A portion of the stimulus funds was slated for the U.S.Geological Service to monitor Mt. Redoubt. That's not to say that Jindal's criticism derailed monitoring and had any effect on the warnings about this particular eruption.
But it does point up the way they pick up on some small detail and lampoon it to make it seem the Democrats are wasting money. Just like they tried to portray some of the stimulus money that went for wetland preservation in CA as "Nancy Pelosi's millions to save field mice."
Ralph
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