Republicans love pointing to their governors, arguing they chart the party’s course to success on a national scale. “Republican governors are America’s reformers in chief,” boasted the Republican National Committee’s autopsy report. In particular, they love pointing to Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal. …
Among the moves that cemented his reputation for GOP cognoscenti: attacking teachers and putting forward a plan to eliminate the income tax, replacing it with a sales tax. How’d that go? GOP cheerleaders ate it up but Louisiana voters hated it, and now Jindal has been forced into surrender on his tax plan. [cont.]
Mark Mellman