Dems Consider Keystone Vote To Help Senator Landrieu

by JASmius

John King, Ron Fournier, and Nia-Malika Henderson on the Dems' possible plans to pass the keystone pipeline.

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.  She then campaigns for the next few weeks on that vote, comes from behind, and ekes out another term in the December 6th runoff, after which then-ex-Congressman Bill Cassidy is left sputtering "humina-humina-humina".  It's the exact same template the Louisiana Democrat has used for years to survive Election Day thrashings via the subsequent runoffs.  If the Pelican State didn't have that quirky runoff structure, Landrieu never would have been elected to the Senate in the first place.  But it does, and here we are.

And, contra Ron Fournier, yes, voters are that stupid, particularly the African-American voters that make up a third of the Louisiana electorate and have been programmed and brainwashed to pull the lever, connect the arrow, or hang the chad for whomever has the "D" after his/her name.  At least, they have been for the past twenty years that Mary Landrieu has been otherwise inexplicably getting to and remaining in the U.S. Senate.

Maybe Elbert Guillory can provide just enough oomph to keep the electoral tide tipped against her.  But I remain skeptical.