Thursday, July 12, 2012

Now Mr. Jindal, he once consulted on creating a national chain of lemonade stands...

The only Republican asked to defend the questions about Romney's offshore bank accounts was Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who struggled to come up with a reasonable answer. "Is it fair for voters to consider, governor, what Mitt Romney does with his money outside the United States?" Jindal was asked on This Week. Jindal tried to dodge the question, but it didn't really work. "I will get to that question, but look. Gov. O'Malley -- he's talked about President [George W.] Bush several times now. That election was eight years ago," he said. "Look, I'm happy he's a successful businessman. We've got a president today who's never run a business, never run anything including a lemonade stand before he was president of the United States."

     In 1994, Jindal went to work for McKinsey & Company as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies. In 1996, he was appointed Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. In 1998, Jindal was appointed Executive Director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. In 1999 Jindal was appointed President of the University of Louisiana System. President George W. Bush appointed Jindal to serve as Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2001. He later resigned from the position in 2003 to return to Louisiana and run for governor. He lost. In 2004 he was elected to the US House of Representatives. He was re-elected in 2006. In 2007 he ran for governor of Louisiana again, winning.

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