Bobby Jindal made a curious claim on "Fox News Sunday":
The only place you see conservative principles being applied today are in state and local governments.
This is of course manifestly untrue.
In Washington we see nearly unprecedented treachery, assorted villiany, and extraordinary dull-wittedness. We see no jobs bills seriously considered; in fact no legislative initiatives of any kind except the cruel and mean-spirited. We see non-cooperativeness. We see no manners, no civility, no humanity. We see pettiness, anger, threats, extortion, disinformation and gangsterism. We see ignorance, racism, a rejection of science and denial of empirical realities. We see anarchy in its highest chaotic form.
We see, in other words, the GOP's thoroughgoing repudiation of authentic conservative principles, which is the cardinal principle of modern conservatism.