[Rhodes scholar and Louisiana Governor Jindal] is, in other words, the rare politician who can work a spreadsheet.

Which is why it’s so disappointing when he says things like this: “I suspect that many in the Obama administration really don’t believe in private enterprise. At best, they see business as something to be endured so that it can provide tax money for government programs.”
You can explain it away with all the normal excuse-making and curve grading. Jindal was speaking to an audience of rabid partisans at the Chicago Conservative Political Action Conference. He’s trying to show the Romney campaign he can play the role of attack dog, a crucial qualification for any vice president. It’s just a throwaway applause line.

But that’s why it’s such a shameful display: He knows better. Or, at the least, he should know better.