Jeff Landry: Louisiana's Biggest Stooge Has Met His Match

U.S. Rep., Jeff Landry, one of Louisiana's three stooges in congress is once again showing his ignorance, lack of character and why he is unfit to serve Louisiana and its people. His nose was bent out of joint because of a recent visit to BOEMRE's regional office. He made an unscheduled visit and had to wait 30 minutes. He compared the agency's staffers to the Gestapo. BOEMRE's director Michael Bromwich in response to Landry's Gestapo remark wrote Landry the following according to a TP article dated 9/21/11.

Your comparison of the minor inconvenience you experienced to the tactics and methods of the Nazi secret police is simply unacceptable from anyone, but especially from a public official. In light of your defamatory remarks, our Gulf of Mexico Regional Office has asked me to advise you that its personnel will not be available to meet with you on Sept. 30.

Hooray for Mr. Bromwich and his staff people for their reaction to Mr. Landry's unAmerican behavior. Time and again Landry and the conservative republicans are incapable of discussing issues without personal attacks. The Times Picayune also wrote the following. Landry wrote to bromwich on Tuesday, if any apology is necessary it would be from you to me and more importantly to the hard working people of south Louisiana, many of whom are now unemployed as a result of decisions from your agencey.

Landry's last sentence: Many of whom are now unemployed as a result of decisions from your agency is proof of how the oil and gas industry and their lobby hold sway over him with their campaign contributions. His little boy comment that it was BOEMRE to blame for any unemployed workers follow the talking points of the industry. The idea is to blame government and not BP and the industry and their own failed safety enforcement.

Landry thinks of himself as elite. People with that attitude have other serious problems that they try to hide. His actions concerning this incident and the BP spill shows he cares nothing about the 11 rig workers who were killed, the workers of Louisiana or even the state. He and his party are truly a pitiful lot. Landry is anti everything that mAde this country great.

More government officials should continue to send Landry and other republicans to the little boy corner where they belong. Landry has earned the title, biggest stooge of them all.

The Do Nothing Republicans In Congress

If that sounds familiar it is because President Truman said that more than 50 years ago in discribing the republican party that served in congress on his watch. Not much has changed for the republican party for in the year 2011 they still rate as the "do nothing congress."

One would think the party were capable of stepping out of the past but their anti American ideology has proven too hard to shake loose from. They refuse to learn from the past because they still have the same problem of the inability to debate the issues and because of their inadequate feelings. The partys debates is a good example. It is a rerun of the many past republican debates and void of the real issues the country faces.

Truman knew how to deal with the republican party's "do nothing agenda"and President Obama is still learning. The past tells us the democratic party and a democratic President are still the best hope of moving the country and its people away from the past and still the best for solving the serious problems we face as a nation. The future will be bright as long as we keep democrats in our "democracy."