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 Tuesdays 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 evenings 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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just enough so Obama can still Veto it
This is the main reason they need to move home to their respective districts. They could do all their business by computer conference, and avoid the corrupting influences in Washington.
Saw her this morning on TV. Then there was a bit on Charles Manson. The eyes. Look at their eyes. Creepy.
If the Democrat Senators were smart....they could use this vote to do in POTUS, Obama...and make him a total “Lame Duck” (He is one already, he just does not know it). How? By voting for the Keystone XL Pipeline!!! I mean with more then sixty-seven votes (both Republican & Democrat, combined), which insure the bill will pass over the “Obama” veto!!!
Why? Obama is imploding....politically, across the board. He is done...toast, politically!!! And...if the Democrat Party does not move to broom him right now they are toast politically....down the road apiece. Mary Landrieu....no matter what she does, is going to be beaten by Bill Cassidy in a devastating, crippling loss....that will embarass the entire Democrat Party. Landrieu is now the “new” Wendy Davis.
She sealed her political fate when she sat silently by, letting the Keystone XL Pipeline lanquish in the drawer of dead beat Democrat leader, Harry Reid and when she cast her vote for “Obamacare”.....kissing Obamas butt....then and forever on!!! The Democrats....all of them....are in a box....and, the only way out of it, is to broom Obama!!! They have a golden opportunity to finish him off, politically.....they use it....or they will rue the day they didn’t!!!
Too little too late. This late empty gesture is just that - empty. Dont worry, we will have the 60 votes in a couple of months from now.
Retiring Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) is voting no despite the fact the pipeline would bring hundreds of jobs to South Dakota. Thank goodness he is being replaced by Republican Mike Rounds.
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