Posted on 11/18/2014 9:29:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Embattled Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and other supporters of building the Keystone XL pipeline appear to be one vote short of the 60 they need to win a key vote on the project on Tuesday.
Landrieu has 59 votes backing legislation to approve the project, and Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Angus King (I-Maine) appear to be her top targets to get to 60.
The effort is crucial to Landrieu because of her runoff election in December against Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who also backs the pipeline. Landrieu is seen as a decided underdog in the race, and Senate Democrats have scheduled Tuesday’s vote to try to give her a boost. If she fails, it could be a death knell for her reelection hopes.
Supporters of Keystone had been targeting Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), but a spokesman for the senator told The Hill on Monday that he would vote no.
Both sides are furiously working the phones in advance of Tuesday evening’s vote.
Proponents are “burning up the phone lines and e-mails trying to find that vote to support the procedural move,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday.
Green groups are pushing right back, rallying outside of Landrieu's Washington, D.C. home on Monday morning. A small group of activists led by 350.org draped an inflatable pipeline across Landrieu's front yard.
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So, instead of calling her ‘Typhoid Mary’ can we call her ‘Keystone Mary?’
That is what I thought. Thanks for the info.
She can go back to LA and live in her mom’s basement and go on Jenny Craig....
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And leave the 2.5 million dollar home on East Capitol St. in DC? Heck her husband
has a thriving Real Estate business there. She’ll search for a lobbying job or
something similar is my guess.
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False drama, so the donkeys can turn this into a WIN for Landrieu and point to her extraordinary skills in pushing legislation.
The 60th vote for Obamacare gets tossed under the bus when she’s no longer useful. If this is the way they treat their own can imagine what they intend to do with you?
Sorry, Mary. A day late and a dollar short!
Neither will be possible.
Mary Landrieu gives prostitution a bad name.
59? It's about protecting Ebama (from not having to veto), not Landrieu
Excuse me, did you say “served” in the Senate? Didn’t you mean “plundered”?
Never looked at it that way....thnx.
A new Congress can try again.
-PJ
Mary Landrieu gives prostitution a bad name:
Bourbon Street Pig in a Blanket
Jay Rockefeller shouldn’t care — he didn’t run for re-election — but, I guess a RAT-Commie-Obama-bootlicker is one forever.
Yeah....I pretty much knew this....it’s a damn shame we send our ‘citizens’ to DC and if they stay there more than one term they get hooked on the DC crack and won’t ever leave.....Newt Gingrich was this way, BTW.
The laugher is that it will pass with no problem as soon as the GOP takes over.
The big question is whether there will be seven new yes votes in the Senate. I think the House override should be doable.
Sounds like they need 67, not 60.
60 gets past the fillibuster,
67 gets past a veto.
To borrow a phrase from Madame Secretary:
“What difference does it make?”
67 is really the crucial number.
That’s how many votes you need to override Soetoro’s veto.
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