Mary Landrieu tries to hold on to her seat by dissing Obama

[flygal]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obamacare-senate-landrieu-20131227,0,4566894.story#axzz2of3c8l8M

METAIRIE, La. — In the months before Congress passed the president's healthcare law, Sen. Mary L. Landrieu faced a deluge: The office phones rang off the hook, the mail was heavy and a few restive constituents — well aware of the cameras — showed up at her events urging her to vote against it.
The three-term Louisiana Democrat was one of the final holdouts, but ultimately she backed the bill. And now in this red state — where President Obama lost by 18 percentage points in 2012 — her opponents intend to make her pay the price.
As her poll numbers have plunged during the bumpy Obamacare rollout, Landrieu has rushed to contain the damage. When about 90,000 health insurance plans were canceled in her state because they did not meet the new law's requirements, she swiftly introduced a legislative fix and bucked the White House by enlisting other Senate Democrats to support it before the president announced his own adjustment.
She has distanced herself from the program's failures, sometimes by flinging darts in Obama's direction: "What I've said to the president is: 'You told them that they could keep it,'" she said of the canceled insurance plans in a news clip featured in her defiant new campaign ad. "I'm fixing it … and I've urged the president to fix it."


http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obamacare-senate-landrieu-20131227,0,4566894.story#ixzz2of49mwNB

[Cha]

1. Landrieu is scared. Don't the majority in Louisana love this

guy? 'Cause they're such brainwashed masochists?

[lpbk2713]

8. Absolutely right

[Loudly]

2. Her only hope is to embrace Medicare for all.

Acknowledge that Obamacare has had unwelcome consequences and advocate that Medicare enrollment be opened up to persons of every age.

Let the health insurance industry compete with the premiums and deductibles of Medicare.

No Republican is going to be campaigning on a platform of Medicare for all, so that leaves the field wide open for Democrats to do so.

Embrace Medicare for all or get crushed next November. A simple and obvious strategy to avoid defeat.

[hobbit709]

3. Maybe if she actually took a stand instead of constant wavering and pandering, she might do better.

[Mass]

4. Media narrative. Nothing more.

Landrieu is a very centrist democrat who is going to suffer (though probably win her election) from having followed her party on a poorly packaged plan where most problems (website excepted) were known when it was voted and willfully ignored. If the only dissing of Obama is saying she told the president to fix something he actually decided to fix, I am satisfied.

But some here will accept the RW memes because it fits their own.

Note that the article does not have any quote dissing the president. Saying that he should fix what was largely perceived as an unforced error coming from Democrats is not dissing him.

[kelliekat44]

5. That works for a lot of people. nt

[MisterP]

6. so? the Party summit will still completely tank anyone running to the left of her

the goal isn't a Dem Capitol, it's to move the Dems to the right

[uponit7771]

7. Weak character,

[dawg]

9. That strategy almost never works.

It makes the candidate look weak.