Leadership Has Its Rewards

Like a 74% approval rating:

Seventy-four percent (74%) of Louisiana voters now approve of the job being done by Governor Bobby Jindal, a 10-point jump from April for the already–popular chief executive.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds that just 26% disapprove of the performance of the Republican governor who has taken a hands-on approach to the Gulf oil leak and been highly critical of the response by BP and the federal government.

These findings include 40% who Strongly Approve of Jindal’s job performance and 10% who Strongly Disapprove.

Even as oil washes up on their shores from the still-spewing leak in the Gulf of Mexico, 79% of Louisiana voters believe offshore oil drilling should be allowed, and nearly as many (72%) support deepwater drilling. But then, according to Reuters, President Obama’s six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling affects 38,000 Louisiana workers in an industry that generates about 16% of the state’s gross domestic product.

Nationally, 60% of voters support offshore oil drilling. Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans favor continued deepwater drilling, while 31% are opposed.

Once again Obama is ruling against the wishes of a strong majority of Americans as he continues to try and enforce the foolish oil drilling ban.  Most Americans understand that we need the oil that's in the Gulf and if we don't get it another nation will and we'll end up buying it from them.

We haven't yet figured out how to power our cars, power plants, or other vital services with rainbows and unicorns.