Reply #7: Here's a wonderful quotation from Jindal....

[Jim Lane]

"By relying on models from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, we have identified areas that are in need of additional oil containment booms."

In other words, over the years, NOAA has spent taxpayers' dollars on some boondoggle egghead research about ocean currents. Can't you just see right-wingers mocking that, just as Jindal mocked the volcano monitoring?

Now, of course, it turns out that this sort of spending is actually a good idea. Who knew?