Last night Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was interviewed by Morley Safer on "60 Minutes."  Safer had begun by stating that Jindal had indicated he was not at this juncture ready for "prime time" in his response to Barack Obama's first presidential speech before both houses of Congress.

While Jindal revealed an upbeat side that so many growling, curmudgeonly figures of the Republican right have not been displaying, when the former Rhodes Scholar and boy wonder of Louisiana politics was asked to discuss what the future holds for his party, he segued into the same rationale as earlier delivered in his response to Obama.

In Jindal's speech the governor who was in office when the Katrina disaster occurred delivered the same scolding reference to the federal government as an enemy so prevalent among right wing Republicans, albeit with the kind of sunny tone associated with another major Republican figure.

Many pundits questioned Jindal's comment in view of the fact that federal government funds kept many Katrina victims alive.  

David Barton, the notorious Christian historical revisionist and longtime Texas GOP activist, is once again barnstorming the nation on the payroll of the Republican National Committee. As he did in 2004, Barton is now speaking in churches on behalf of GOP candidates. This past weekend, Barton made appearances with Rep. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) in three Baptist churchesin the Louisiana congressman's district. According to Barton's speaking schedule on the web site of Wallbuilders, the organization he heads in Aledo, Texas, the churches were: Calvary Baptist Church, in Alexandria,  Cedar Crest Baptist Church, in West Monroe, and  First Baptist Church Bossier City, in Bossier City. For each of the three events, the contact listed is not the church, but Taylor Teepell, at the Jindal campaign. Jindal is being challenged this year by Democrat Stacey Tallitsch.

As in 2004, Barton's campaigning seems intended to be mostly "below the radar."