Jindal also treated readers to his latest, favorite political stunt: sticking his nose in foreign affairs, about which he knows next to nothing. This time it was the condescending letter signed by 47 GOP senators (including Louisiana's David Vitter and Bill Cassidy) to the government of Iran, warning that that any nuclear treaty might very well be reversed after Obama leaves office. The letter itself was a ridiculous stunt that quickly backfired on its architect, newly minted U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
Jindal endorsed the letter and challenged his fellow presidential aspirants to do likewise. "Every single person thinking about running for President, on both sides, should sign on to this letter to make clear to Iran that they are negotiating with a lame duck President," Jindal said. That's laughably ironic coming from a lame duck governor who will be leaving office before Obama does. And he intimated to The New York Times that the letter to Iran was his idea, not Cotton's: "Like I said, we've been saying it for a while," he told the paper, adding that Cotton was in the audience at a Jindal speech where he claimed to have made the suggestion.
