Jindal to congressional GOP: ‘Grow a spine’

(Bloomberg Politics) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal isn’t happy with some of his fellow Republicans in Washington, he made clear Thursday. “It is time for our Republican leaders in Congress to grow a spine,” he said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), pushing legislators to do more to resist President Obama’s immigration policies. “It’s time for them to do the job we elected them to do.”

Jindal voiced a similar frustration with GOP lawmakers over their failure to beat back the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). “This troubles me greatly: at the same time that the Republicans in Washington are about to wave the white flag of surrender on amnesty, they’re about to wave the white flag of surrender on repealing Obamacare,” he said. “And I’m here to tell you, we’ve got to tell them we won’t stand for that.”

“It is time for them to govern the way they campaigned and to get rid of Obamacare,” he said. “We don’t need Obamacare lite. We don’t need a second Democratic party. We don’t need the cheaper liberal Democrats. We need to be principled, conservative Republicans.”