In a too-cute-by-half attempt at the Republican standby play "I'm rubber you're glue," Bobby Jindal accused the "liberals who populate the Obama administration" of being...
"science deniers."
You see, by opposing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, the "leftists" in the administration (which include, apparently, Yoko Ono and Lady Gaga, according to the governor) are denying science.
Myself, I have read no objection to the pipeline by anyone in the administration based on the idea that semi-solids will flow through a cylindrical vessel, nor claims that Bernoulli's Principle is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
But, apparently, the guv has obtained such documents, or so he gave his audience at the Heritage Foundation to understand. And, by god, he should know a thing or two about science deniers, being a scientist.
Or not.
When reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor dogged Jindal with questions about why he insists on putting creationist teachings on par with a century and a half of actual, um, science regarding the nature of species, he whipped out a more recent Republican too-clever trick: the non-scientist defense.
“The reality is I’m not an evolutionary biologist,” he said. “I think that local school districts, not the federal government, should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics. I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.”
It may be assumed from Jindal's statement that parish school boards throughout our state are made up of biologists with more authority in the field than the guv himself. He, after all, holds merely a B.S. in biology from Brown and has only worked in jobs unrelated to the field such as director of the state's Department of Health and Hospitals.
In fairness, it should be noted that Jindal's post-graduate degree is not in biology but in Political Science, which appears to be the field in which he prefers to practice.