Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has been working “very hard” to secure the 60 votes need to get Keystone XL pipeline legislation passed in the Senate, according to Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).
“She was working very very hard. She was working very hard. She’s working very hard to get 60 votes so we’ll see what happens,” Stabenow told reporters on Tuesday as she was leaving a Senate Democratic luncheon a few hours ahead of the vote on Keystone, which she has pledged to vote against the bill. “She’s a huge friend and we admire her for what she believes in.”
It’s unclear if Landrieu, who’s facing an uphill battle in the runoff for U.S. Senate against Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), will be able to rally the final senator she needs for the 60 votes needed to overcome a Senate filibuster of the bill. It appeared on Tuesday that 59 senators, including all Senate Republicans, backed Senate approval of the Keystone pipeline bill.
Does anyone actually believe that getting to 60 votes in the lame duck session will save Mary Landrieu in her run-off election? It’s the Louisiana of Bobby Jindal. She’s toast. The GOP will ram the bill through next year and, hopefully, Obama will veto it. Why shouldn’t he? The GOP isn’t going to actually give him anything juicy in return for it. All they want it for is a talking point. It doesn’t benefit them to make a deal with him. Besides, Canada already has a new plan for a pipeline to their own east coast ports. This is a deal that has probably outlived its usefulness all the way around.
Other than to potentially help Landrieu get reelected, what’s the point of this? Whether or not they pass a bill, the decision is still up to the president. What a waste of time!
At this point, she’s probably just auditioning for a lobbyist gig.
The only concern is that they may attach the bill to another bill that the President considers vital, daring the President to veto something he wants/needs as their penalty for him not genuflecting to them.
Mary Kegstand was working very hard to enrich the Kochs…