◼ Jindal: The voters spoke, Republicans should listen - Bobby Jindal/Washington Examiner
“Elections have consequences,” President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later, the president’s party has lost 70 House seats and 14 Senate seats. The job of Republicans now is to govern with the confidence that elections do have consequences, promptly passing the conservative reform the voters have demanded.
Commentators and pundits are already suggesting that Republicans need to be careful about what they do now that they control Congress. So do I — I believe we need to be very careful to stand up for what we believe in, and for what the American people voted for....
Let’s put the onus on the President and give him the opportunity to finally do the will of the American people. He can be constructive, or he can finish his Presidency as a liberal obstructionist ideologue who vetoes everything.