Mary Landrieu is done. I won't shed a single tear. Screw her and the big energy horse [View all]

[cali]

she's been, er, canoodling with for her entire Senate career. She's a corrupt, nasty piece of work. The Senate is gone anyway. And while we're at it, screw Reid and the other dems selling us out for her.

Mary Landrieu’s Pipeline Pipe Dream

Sen. Mary Landrieu wasted little time reminding everyone that the Senate’s lame-duck session is not a lame-duck session for everyone. The Louisiana Democrat, who will face GOP challenger Bill Cassidy in a runoff next month, took to the floor on Wednesday, less than 30 minutes after the upper chamber convened for the first time since the midterm elections. “I believe it is time to act,” Landrieu said, renewing her advocacy for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. “I want to say ‘yes’ to [the] majority leader—new Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The time to start is now.”

That Landrieu is launching such a Hail Mary is hardly a surprise. Greenlighting the pipeline has long been a goal of hers, and the three-term senator has little reason not to go down swinging now that she’s likely to be ousted from office. What is much more of a shock, though, is that Harry Reid—the majority leader for all of two more months—is indulging her, announcing Wednesday that he would bring her Keystone bill to the floor for a vote. That’s a baffling decision, not just because it’s so transparently politically craven—although it is—but because it risks so much for so little potential gain.

Landrieu faces a steep, perhaps even impossible battle to hold on to her seat. She bested Cassidy by 1.2 points on Election Day, but failed to garner the votes needed to avoid a head-to-head runoff. With third-place-finisher Rob Maness—a Tea Party favorite who won 14 percent of the vote—now backing Cassidy, the four-term GOP congressman has become the clear favorite.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/11/mary_landrieu_keystone_democrats_should_be_embarrassed_to_indulge_the_louisiana.html