Governor Jindal unloads on Team Obama:
Surrounded by indignant local officials, Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday once again lambasted the federal government’s performance in fighting the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, not only because it has vetoed the state’s proposals to combat it but also because, he said, Washington has not devised a strategy of its own.
“Whether it’s Grand Isle or Barataria Bay or Lake Pontchartrain or Breton Sound, we need the federal government to have a greater sense of fighting this oil before it gets into our fragile estuaries,” Jindal said at a news conference. “They need to fight it like the war that it is. We have told them that no is not an answer, no is not a plan, no is not acceptable.”
Jindal’s anger was echoed by leaders of Jefferson, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes, who stood around him in a Lakefront Airport hangar after a helicopter flight over Lake Pontchartrain.