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"I know I'll be criticized here [...], but Jindal is right [about the wastefulness of goverment spending on volcano monitoring]! As a matter of fact I also have additional savings I can highlight. What about the dollars spent on monitoring hurricanes. They happen a lot more often than volcanos erupting and I bet everyone knows about where they're going to happen so why spend all that money? We even know pretty much when they're going to happen. I'm sure Bobby would agree with me." -- Talking Points Memo reader Brian M, 2009-03-23

[For folks with short memories: in the Republican response to President Obama's address to Congress 2009-02-24, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal disparaged volcano monitoring as wasteful. Mount Redoubt in Alaska erupted 2009-03-22, and the monitoring that Jindal had mocked gave folks in the area time to prepare. I figured I'd save this quote for the official start of hurricane season.]