While Obama Talks Bobby Jindal Acts

Leadership:

Eight weeks into the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of the Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has told the National Guard that there's no time left to wait for BP, so they're taking matters into their own hands.

Before his speech, the president takes another look at the oil-tainted region.In Fort Jackson, La., Jindal has ordered the Guard to start building barrier walls right in the middle of the ocean. The barriers, built nine miles off shore, are intended to keep the oil from reaching the coast by filling the gaps between barrier islands.

Jindal has tried to play by the rules, waiting for Federal approval to build these barrier islands, but thanks to general governmental incompetence (and probably some pressure from environmental activists) no approval was ever given for his common sense approach to saving the coast.

So he just went ahead and did it.  Good for him.

I hope other states will begin to start exercising the powers given them by the Constitution, even if it means risking legal battles with the Feds.