It was Jindal's folly...

[Roselma]

It seems like just yesterday when Jindal fans were complaining that Obama and the Coast Guard were hampering his ability to protect Louisiana from the BP oil disaster by holding up approval of his sand berms. Jindal did finally get his wish, and the berms were constructed against the best advice of coastal experts. Well...the jury is in, and the berms were a near-total bust:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101216/ts_yblog_thelookout/panel-jindal-sand-berm-project-was-a-colossal-waste-of-time-and-money

Panel: Jindal sand berm project was a colossal waste of time and money

By Brett Michael Dykes

For months, critics of Louisiana GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal's BP-funded $360 million sand berm project have blasted the effort as a tragic misuse of time and resources. They charged that the governor and his lead advisers could have undertaken scores of other projects that would have been far more beneficial to the damaged Gulf and the inhabitants of its coast.

Some have even charged that the plan was nothing more than a multi-million dollar kickback for the governor's supporters. "The only reason those sand berms are still being built is because Bobby Jindal has supporters he needs to pay back," a current Louisiana officeholder, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of ongoing dealings with the Jindal administration, told Yahoo News back in October. "It's that simple ... follow the money. The people making money off this thing are people that gave money to Jindal."

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project was a total bust that succeeded in capturing virtually no oil.

In emphatic language, the bi-partisan commission announced that it can "comfortably conclude that the decision to green-light the underwhelmingly effective, overwhelmingly expensive Louisiana berms project was flawed."

Take the simple question of oil containment. "Estimates vary, and no precise figures are available," the report notes. "But no estimates of how much oil the berms captured are much greater than 1,000 total barrels. In comparison, according to peer-reviewed government estimates released in November, burning, skimming, and chemical dispersion addressed a total of between 890,000 and 1.85 million barrels spilled from the Macondo well.">>>

[Drale]

1. But all of Bobby's friends got a nice fat payday

how can you call that a waist? :sarcasm:

[GoCubsGo]

2. Booby was warned that it was a boondoggle.

That being said, I'm surprised this actually made the news, given what a media darling he became during the crisis.

[MadMaddie]

3. Bobby will blame President Obama for forcing him to make

a decision that all of the experts gave a thumb down...

waiting...

[NNN0LHI]

4. And notice when he is on TV no one will ask him about this

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

:thumbsup:

[FSogol]

6. Just another grifter. A volcano-hating grifter. n/t

[bluestate10]

7. Jindal has shown himself to be a buffoon ever since his pathetic

"response" to Obama's first SOTU speech.