Big guv'ment? Sure. Not then, but now.

In Criticizing Cleanup, Jindal Finds His Voice is the headline. And this is the picture the Journal runs with the story.

Getty Images - The governor's aggressive stance has helped ratchet up pressure on the federal government.

This is the same government Governor Jindal and other Republicans wanted out of their way so the states and the entrepreneurs they  championed could get things done. Yet once BP's gusher sent tens of thousands of barrels of petroleum toward the Louisiana shoreline, the Governor started calling for the same government to come to his state's aid.

Now, Mr. Jindal, an ardent conservative who attacked big government in his rebuttal speech, is demanding greater federal aid.

 That was then, this is now, and now is different. Now theorizing has given way to pragmatism.

Here comes the sludge

Now it is estimated that 5,000 barrels a day are pouring out of the well in the Gulf of Mexico, not that 1,000 previously quoted. This NASA image from its Aqua satellite using its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer shows the Louisiana coast on Tuesday.

Drill, baby, drill?