Governor Jindal praises President Obama's response to the Mississippi River flooding

It appears as if the President is taking a more direct approach to dealing with disasters. I am glad that Gov. Jindal thought it well enough to publically recognize the efforts of President Obama and his administration.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, one of the leading critics of the Obama administration’s response to last year’s Gulf oil spill, says things are going much better as his state deals with flooding along the Mississippi river.

“This has been a joint collaborative effort,” Jindal said in an interview Monday night on CNN, noting that federal agencies like FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard are working well with the state and parishes to coord
Jindal deflected a question that referenced both his criticism of President Barack Obama over the spill and the anger in Louisiana over the federal government’s role in the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

In the days and weeks after the oil spill, Jindal jabbed the Obama administration for its response. “You know, it’s that old saying that we’ve heard promises, we want to see that happen on the ground,” Jindal said last May, voicing the need for greater support from the federal government. While Obama said that federal agencies were doing all that they could, the governor said he thought “there could have been a greater sense of urgency.”

And, in his memoir of the spill response, published in November, Jindal again criticized the president, writing that Obama was more interested in the politics of the response than he was in cleaning up the mess. “That encounter with President Obama served as a reminder to me of why Americans are so frustrated with Washington: the feds focus on the wrong things,” he reflected in the book. “Political posturing becomes more important than reality.”

But on the flooding, Jindal is taking a much warmer approach.

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