Papantonio: Blue Dog Dems Force Keystone Vote

[GoLeft TV]

America's Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, appears on the Ed Schultz Podcast to discuss discuss Sen. Mary Landrieu's pushing for passage of the Keystone XL Pipeline to save her seat in the Senate.

[JeaneRaye]

1. What a waste.

Mary Landrieu wants to sacrifice the environment to save her sorry ass. It won't work Mary. You're still going to lose your seat in the Senate. And I say, "Good riddance". Better to have a real Republican in that seat than a "Democrat" that acts like a Republican. As I understand it, approval of the Keystone XL pipeline is really not up to Congress, anyway. It is up to the President and the State Department. Even if some slick move is made, there won't be enough votes to push it through and if they do, hopefully the President will veto it. I'm pretty sure there won't be enough votes to override the veto. Mary.... why don't you just put an "R" next to your name and get it over with.

[swilton]

2. 'Chemical Alley'

discussed as a sound-bite by Mike Papantonio at about minute 4:37. Let me give my first hand impressions - I flew into the Houston airport in Jan, 2014 to attend my uncle's funeral. Don't know if this was the chemical alley that Papantonio was referring to but God help the people of Louisiana and the Gulf if there are worse places.

The 120 mile drive between Houston and Lake Charles, La. was all refineries and smelled like Sulphur, as did the city of Sulphur, La. which was on the outskirts of Lake Charles and the location of the funeral-burial. I was told not to drink the water in Sulphur and this was reportedly the advice the Houston hospital medical doctors had given to my uncle (unsure if this was just Sulphur water or every place between Sulphur and Houston). My uncle had worked for the refinery for 35 years and retired with a pension but died of some rare form of leukemia - both of his wives also died from cancers. My uncle was an avid gardener but I noted with interest the back yard garden at his house. He always had to add soil to it because the ground kept sinking.

Thanks Mary Landrieu - don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Certainly DP leadership has more to offer than these Blue Dogs - certainly we the people can do better.