Insidiously brilliant, no? Harry (G)Reid brings up Keystone XL for the Senate vote he's been blocking for years in the lame-duck session, outgoing majority Dems vote it down, but Mary Landrieu can go on record as having voted in favor of it.
-Me, a week ago
The Assholiated Press estimates there are a total of fifty eight Senate votes for the Cassidy bill, so it likely can't escape a Donk filibuster to even make it to getting killed by an Obama veto, much less get the additional nine votes needed for an override if it somehow did pass.
-Me, last Friday
I was one vote off. So sue me:
Senator Mary Landrieu’s Keystone XL pipeline bill fell short by the slimmest of margins Tuesday, leaving the $8 billion pipeline still on the table for the ascendant Republican Party to push the project to President Barack Obama’s desk in January.
The 59-41 Senate vote was just shy of the sixty 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 December 6th runoff against GOP Representative Bill Cassidy, whom polls show running comfortably ahead. Winning on Keystone would have helped her demonstrate her clout on the Hill as a champion of her state’s influential oil and gas industry.
Persuading Dirty Harry to bring the Keystone XL bill up for a vote and then voting for it isn't enough? She had to push it through the Senate over her own party's fanatical resistance? Doesn't that beg the question of why she would have the "clout" to do that now when she hasn't displayed any such clout over the past six years? And even if she had, or enough of her Donk colleagues had indulged her, how would she have gotten Barack Obama to sign the bill? A "prayer" vigil? Yes, "prayer moves the hands of God," but Marxist-Alinskyist demigods tend to be a lot more stubborn.
If this is Senator Landrieu's swansong, wouldn't you have to say that it was a home run for the GOP? Representative Cassidy sponsors the Keystone XL bill in the House and gets it passed, Senator Landrieu whips it good in the Senate and it goes down in flames. "With friends like these...." and all that.
But I will reiterate now what I wrote five days ago:
But consider this a sneak preview of the next couple of years, as the GOP lays the foundation for a successful Scott Walker presidential run in 2016 by forcing The One to veto one popular conservative bill after another - which we know he will.
What few they can get past the Donk filibuster blockade, that is.
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