McConnell isn't Majority Leader yet. Harry Reid is allowing Mary Landrieu to bring this to the Senate floor.
Try to pay attention.
That is why they are calling attempts to pass the Keystone Pipeline to help Senator Landrieu the "Fail Mary" (football euphemism for last ditch effort to score a touchdown with little chance of success).
Senator and Majority Leader Reid is allowing Senator Landrieu to use the pipeline bill as a simple attempt to buy her votes. The bill has been there and Senate Majority Leader Reid kept the bill from coming to a vote until it was about nothing mores than votes. They weren't concerned about the project, legislation or environmental impact ... It is about the power and who they are trying to keep in office.
No worries ... Voters in Louisiana remember how Senator Landrieu screwed the people with the Louisiana Purchase back when negotiating the ACA legislation passing the Senate. Democrats promised her $300 million in additional Medicare funding in return for her vote in favor of the ACA. In the long run ... She was screwed by her own Democrats ... And didn't even get the $300 million in funding.
I would say Louisiana voters are going to send her packing ... But she hasn't lived here for years ... Probably won't move out of Washington where her husband is a lobbyist either.
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