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.