Posted on 11/19/2014 5:05:20 AM PST by sr4402
The 59-41 Senate vote was just shy of the 60 votes needed to pass the bill, following a dramatic six days of whipping by the embattled Louisiana Democrat on an issue that almost all of Washington had expected to sit idle until next year.
The defeat deals a blow to Landrieu’s campaign ahead of her Dec. 6 runoff against GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy, whom polls show running comfortably ahead.
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With Landrieu's very probable defeat, power shifts to in the Senate away from the RINOs. Obama is going to have a much harder time getting anything past the Senate. Why did they do it?
The American people are crying out for Jobs and the Democrats clearly are clearly exposed as job opposers. And the Unions will be ticked because many of these would have been union jobs. Why are they doing this?
The fix was in - Reid stacked the vote so that Landrieu would lose.
The inimitable hairy just flexing his puny muscles to let everybody know he’s still in charge for a little while longer. As far as all the euphoria over the gop-e “wave”, you gotta consider that the next elections in ‘16 there’s a lot of “R” seats up for grabs. That gives the dhimmiokkkrats a lot of time to crank up the rhetoric and money printing presses. Be vigilant my friends.
Just checked, Reid voted against her. He was the deciding vote.
Dingy Harry screws his own party.
Wow..they pulled her funding then let her twist in the wind by one vote.
If Landrieu honestly believed that passing the Keystone bill would saver her sorry ass for being defeated in the runoff then she’s delusional.
If so, Dingy Harry had best watch his back - I suspect Moon Landrieu is better connected, if he isn’t dead yet.
So let me ask the Freeper community to read the tea leaves.
Does this mean that there will be enough votes with the new Congress?
I wonder what the record is for McCain and Collins to caucus with the Left? That will be a start point...
Now she’s worse off = Cassidy can now point to this failure as evidence of Mary’s total lack of influence in the Senate.
Now she’s worse off = Cassidy can now point to this failure as evidence of Mary’s total lack of influence in the Senate.
DemocRAT buddies give Landrieu a good rogering as a going away gift.
Obama threatened to veto it anyway, so even if it passed, it was an effort in futility — except that it got Dems on the record as voting for or against.
When the issue resurfaces early next year, the Pubbie majority plus some Dems might have enough to override an Obama veto.
Roll Call Could someone look up the House tally and come up with that side?
Roll Call Could someone look up the House tally and come up with that side?
DNC pulled ad money.
Senate couldn’t get 60 votes for her.
Obama threatened to veto the bill anyway.
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It has been a rough several days for the Soon-to-be-former Senator.
She can email other formers — Pryor and Lincoln — to get some advice on how to handle forced retirement.
[There are rumors that she will run to the seat currently held by Vitter, as he will be running for Governor.]
Its time for Mary to unleash on the Senate Dems. At this point, even she knows she’s going to lose so why not start unloading on them in speeches on the Senate floor? I guess she won’t because it would jeopardize that high-paying lobbyist job she’s probably angling for at this point.
It is astonishing to see how many MSM stories manage to avoid the f-word. They say that the Senate "defeated" the pipeline, when the Senate voted 59-41 in favor. The Senate failed to break a filibuster, but reporting that accurately would hang the obstructionist tag around Reid, and the MSM won't do that.
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