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The Sad End of Mary Landrieu
Sen. Mary Landrieu has been the Democratic Senator representing Louisiana for the past 18 years. Prior to that, she held state government offices for another 18. She’s the daughter of a former New Orleans mayor, sister to that city’s current mayor, and perhaps the most public face of the Landrieu family political machine.
After a rough and desperate campaign, she’s expected to lose her runoff to a confident Republican. National Democrats have pulled their ad money and support, considering the Pelican State Princess doomed to a cushy political exile in her D.C. mansion. Everyone seems to have accepted the inevitable — except Landrieu herself.
Yesterday, she threw an embarrassing tantrum on the Senate floor demanding a vote on the Keystone XL pipeline, a project which has been aggressively blocked by her own party leaders. Chuck Schumer was overheard arguing with her near the Senate elevators while political observers were joking about her deathbed conversion on the pipeline after 18 years on Capitol Hill.
Interestingly, the House version of the Keystone bill was written by Bill Cassidy, her opponent in the upcoming runoff. Awkward.
Today, Landrieu continued her rebranding as the female Ted Cruz by defiantly opposing Harry Reid’s continued leadership of Senate Democrats. For what it’s worth, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, joined her in the futile gesture. Looks like someone noticed last week’s election results.
Needless to say, the Democratic base (i.e., MSNBC) is deeply unhappy with Landrieu’s flailing on Keystone, Reid, etc.
I better buy some more popcorn.
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Interesting.
Naked ambition wins out over feel-good environmentalism every time.
So this is the will of Landrieu?
The Senate needs to shed some weight. (Pun absolutely intended.)
I listened to some of the floor debate on C-SPAN radio and XM’s POTUS channel tonight. I felt embarrassed for her—the whining and desperation made me cringe.
But I didn’t realize she’d had a deathbed conversion on the Keystone issue. I figured she surely would have been in favor of it all this time, since she represents Louisiana. Not true?
Jon,
Truly amazing. 19 years of no global warming. The Canadians openly can’t understand us. They are making a fortune dragging oil South. Trucking and Training the oil is far more environmentally hazardous than the pipeline. I talked to an executive who worked for the Canadian National Railway. He thought we had all gone mad. Gasoline over $5 dollars a gallon, our economy way down, and we keep stopping what needs to get done.
This week add the joke of Obama’s deal with the Chinese. Actually, the Chinese and Indians and all the other emergent economies have been thumbing their nose at Man Made Global Warming for years. If we wanted to cripple our own economy that was fine with them but they weren’t going to sign on to this nonsense. Obama in desperation (like with the Iranians) goes to the Chinese and gets a meaningless agreement that continues to hobble us and enable them.
Rachel Madcow shows what the last 6 years have been all about. Hey Mary you don’t let a Republican get anything! It doesn’t matter whether it’s good for your State. It doesn’t matter whether it’s good for the USA. It doesn’t matter whether it’s good for Humanity itself.
All that matters is the lying Obamite narrative and crushing your political opponents. Maybe there’s an anchor spot in Hell for little Rachel.
Regards,
Jim
I think she is aware that getting Keystone passed will not help her in the runoff, as she was for the pipeline during her campaign. Perhaps she just wants to end her time in the Senate on an effectual note. I think this would put the Republicans in a good position come January if a bill can be sent to the President’s desk during the lame duck session.
But will the president veto? How rich would it be for enough democrats to finally find religion on Keystone and for Obama to put the nail in the coffin of Sen Landrieu’s tenure as senator and veto the bill.
What is the sad part? Any politician going down is not sad in my opinion. Particularly Democrats.That is very good.
Joy be with you. Peace and contentment. Are you of the body?
Wait, maybe, just maybe Landrieu, free of further need to kowtow to Reid is finally voting her conscience and is trying to make amends by actually voting to put the interests of her State and Nation in front of her political ambition and Bolshevik Party loyalty ?
Naw, just kidding .
You really had me going there for a minute.
If a Democrat truly believed in man-made catastrophic climate change and in its approaching yet avoidably disasterous effects on hundreds of millions of innocent men, women and children around the globe, shouldn’t he be condemning China and India?
Shouldn’t environmentalists demand conscription of the citizens of the world into a United Nations army to invade China and overthrow the government which threatens such horrors?
In light of history no one can really believe that the piece of paper that President Neville Obama signed actually means ecological “peace in our time” – can they?
Are they dumb, or is this all just silly fear-mongering?
“Elect No Democrat Anywhere, Ever.”
She voted for Obamacare.
Justice would be served, partially, if she had to pay in dollars to the Treasury as much as she is paying angst-roms* to the public.
(*It’s a new unit. Landrieu is helping us establish the exchange rate.)