Look Who's (NOT) Coming to Dinner

Katie Couric of CBS and Thomas Friedman of The N.Y. Times will be at the very first Obama Administration State Dinner at the White House tonight, so will a lot of big-D elected officials. And at first I thought there were no big-R elected officials on the guest list, then I spotted this:

The Honorable (Governor) Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana

 Mrs. Supriya Jindal, First Lady of Louisiana

     I'm not sure why the (R) is missing after his name, cause he's surely a Republican. His parents were Indian, making his invitation a  natural, of course, since the dinner is in honor of The Indian Prime Minister.
     Nobody from the Alabama Congressional Delegation that I could see...nobody currently living in Alabama for that matter. Press Secretary Gibbs is on the list, and he's from Auburn...and that's about as close as I could get to an Alabama presence in the place everyone wants to be tonight.
     I'm sure they would have invited me, but The President probably knows I get up at O'Dark O'Clock for "CBS 8 This Morning". Robert Gibbs probably told him.