Landrieu is one of the infamous "8"

[WI_DEM]

Her reasoning? It would tie up the Senate when there is work to do regarding rebuilding NO!! I thought she might be a good pick for VP once upon a time, but not now. Oh, but she will vote "NO" just not support the filibuster.

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[rudy23]

1. In all fairness to Mrs. Landrieu,

She would get absolutely slammed if she helped tie up any sort of Katrina relief back home. She would be through in Louisiana.

[SoCalDem]

6. She MIGHT be through regardless.

Louisana will be redder from here on in.

[pitohui]

21. the democratic voter is displaced

it's over, she won by only the slimmest of margins and thanks to the black democratic voter

she has no future, she is not fighting for any imagined future, she is fighting for people who are bleeding right now

[Bluebear]

9. So her personal political future is more important than doing right.

American politics. :(

[skylarmae]

15. she is already the scapegoat and getting slammed.

They are leaving her state to the carpetbaggers and she is letting them have their way. She should have learned after Katrina, but,...

[flyarm]

33. and she will continue to be slammed ..now by an entire nation!

not just dems but by an entire nation..she will be held to account!

she is not a dem./.she is a dirty rotten traitor!

she was a traitor to her people..she has always been a traitor!

so what is so important ..* hiding the truth about katrina..so just what national security would be exposed for * to claim executive powers top keep secret the failures of katrina..what is national security?? the entire fucking world watched the failure!!

so what is so pressing for this nation??

more lies to another war?? ( iran)

25,000 more people loosing their jobs?? ( detroit )

our economy collapsing?? ( oil out of dollar to euro?)

more spying on americans??

unitary executive...a la alito??

more cia agents to be exposed by this regime??

democrats being irrelevant?

a congress not worth a shit?

the destruction of our republic?

the destruction of our constitution??

what M A R Y..what is more pressing??????????????????????????????

fuck you mary!

fly

[Neecy]

2. This doesn't surprise me one bit...

As much as I support the rebuilding efforts, this is a national issue that will have a terrible effect on generations of Americans. She needs to look at something more than one city.

I suspect, though, that even if the hurricane had never happened Landrieu would do this exact same thing.

[Zodiak]

3. I agree with that suspicion

and I have the vote history to prove it.

[incapsulated]

7. She would

That's her record. She is a "third way" Dem. What happened in her state radicalized her on that one issue.

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[markus]

35. One city

9-11 was about four square blocks. Explain to me why i should give a fuck.

Twenty three thousands square miles of the United States were laid waste. Tell me what state you're from and I'll explain that number to you in geographical terms. Half a fucking million people are homeless, have lost everything, and can't go home.

If the United States can't respond to this it's over. The American Experiment is complete, and the results are in.

It failed

[Justitia]

4. She is either stupid, or a liar, or both.

Bush just yanked $$$$ for her state - TODAY.
So, WTF is her excuse NOW??
She will screw every woman in this country liked she just got screwed by her buddy Bush.

[markus]

5. Funny, I just sent her an email telling her the very opposite

I think all government business should grind to a halt until the Baker Bill passes. I don't care if they run out of food and ammo in Iraq, or if the Social Security checks don't go out. Nothing should get to pass, as long as their is a trick left in the Senate rules, until that bill is done.

[f-bush]

8. Chicken shit!!!

[Horse with no Name]

10. Not to minimize the damage to NOLA

but this is every bit as important and deserves her undivided attention.
Can't she multi-task?

[fooj]

13. First of all, she has been screwed by this admin as far as LA goes.

She knows it.

Peace.

[ewagner]

14. Can you imagine the threats

being made to her?

"If you vote for a filibuster, then NO won't get one, red, cent."

[WI_DEM]

18. then expose the threats and who made them

[pitohui]

26. she got anthrax and we're still waiting, aren't we

it's easy to sit back in wisconsin and talk big

we have people here and not just in new orleans, but all over the coast, who have no homes, jobs, cash, etc, we have people in some areas who still have no freakin electricity !!!

we have people still seeking out family members airlifted from the superdome and taken who knows where or buried who knows where, i just posted a story on that earlier, unfortunately, looks like the site (the new orleans newspaper site nola.com) has already taken it done in favor of another story abt evacuees who died after being removed to other states

if you don't have the sense to realize that a relatively junior senator has to be able to work w. other senators to get help, and that we are fighting for our damn lives and future here, faced w. a hostile and hateful republican-majority congress, then where the hell is yr heart and yr brain?

you could not do a damn thing better or different but you could be a tactless clod and just screw things up for the little guy here on the ground

be at least a little fair and real

why is it necessary to tear apart our own? don't we have enough of the enemy to tear apart?

you know, plenty on this site shit all over john breaux, but let's be real, if breaux had not retired, he'd be getting us the equal of what trent lott is getting mississippi and prob. more because he was well-liked, there is a value in being able to play nicely w. others

i can't do that, you can't do that, but that's why we're not senators

it is not for mary to take the lead in the alito fight

[stillcool]

11. send her some love...

Mary Landrieu (LA)
724 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: http://www.landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

[fooj]

12. I just called her office and left a lengthy message...

She is a coward. Pure and simple. As far as NO goes...she has seen the help they've received. It's a big, fat NOTHING! I also said I'd like to know what she has done for her party lately? Hell, she almost NEVER votes Democrat.

Peace.

[Greyhound]

16. I don't understand why anyone is surprised at her behavior.

She's the same politiwhore she always was the only thing that has changed is Katrina.

[pitohui]

17. she is right

it isn't the time or place to tie up the senate, we are desperately in need of funding and we ain't got it

don't know what to say ya'll but between the theoretical might-happen coat-hanger after years more of litigation or the people in real need right now today she has to make a choice

the hardest war is not the war between good and evil, it's the war between good and good

mary has to think abt the people already hurting in louisiana right now, put that on top the majority of her constituents are anti-choice, and she really has no choice but to represent her people

for the record, i'm pro-choice, but we need $ we need housing we need levees we need we need we need we need action

i'm not going to crap on mary for doing this, i may well have felt obliged to do the same in her place

[Justitia]

22. So I guess you just missed the broadcast where Bush cut funding for LA

relief. It was on NBC just moments ago.

He ripped the rug right out from dependable 'ole Mary just TODAY.

Now what is her fucking excuse?

[ticapnews]

25. It's not like the Senate will grind to a complete halt

If there is a filibuster Friday night, the Senate would still open for business on Monday. The Senate can still conduct other business while the GOP tries to gather the 60 votes needed to end debate. Hell, she could even pull a Ted Stevens act and introduce a huge bailout package for Louisiana and tell the GOP she'll vote for cloture as soon as the president signs her bill into law. Want to see how fast they they'd pass Katrina relief if she did that? But no, she's going to give away her vote for nothing.

[acmejack]

27. You won't get anything whether she does this or not!

So she can humiliate herself and you will still have nothing to show for it. Remember that you decided that the terrible Alito court decisions of the next 30 or 40 years were a perfectly acceptable trade off for the chance that maybe * would change his mind and throw you all a crumb (he won't).

[Joanne98]

20. she votes with Bush 80% of the time. (according to her)

[Pithy Cherub]

23. Landrieu is continuously disappointing.

What is gained by the marginalization of how important this seat is on SCOTUS? Many of the issues decided by Alito will directly adversely impact the Gulf coast, women and people of color and she is OK with that. That is not someone who puts the people first but her own political career.

[pitohui]

30. oh for the love of cryin out loud

she is a senator of louisiana

this is a catholic state

most don't support choice or support v. limited choice, such as life and health of mother, like it or not, mary does support choice, but when push comes to shove and decisions have to be made, she has to think of what the constituents want and not what makes her look good to democraticunderground

can we pul-lease spent at least 50 percent of the time we spend tearing apart mary tearing apart david vitter?

christ

priorities folks

[WI_DEM]

31. ok, Vitter is a right-wing stooge, and Mary doesn't have her

priorities straight--This guy will be on the court 25 or more years and will do alot of damage.

[Pithy Cherub]

34. Your sliver of the pie is not everyone's. Landrieu poorly

represents the interests of her constituents. Many of the people who made her win possible are now dispersed all over the nation and know not when they may return. There are SCOTUS issues that will affect everyone for generations and she is so myopic that she has a limited ability to see larger context. It also speaks to her inability to influence her peers as Louisiana is not basking in the bosom of the US Treasury either. Her votes to enable W have done no good for Louisiana but continuous ongoing harm to her constituents and the US.

If that is what you wish to be proud of well, I don't set your floor limits. My standards are a bit higher and senatorial behavior and votes allow me to choose carefully where time and money go, especially in tight races. She isn't rallying folks to her these days. Landrieu is an ongoing disaapointment.

[realFedUp]

29. Thousands sent aid and money to that area...

At the least she can stand up to this nominee
for the rest of us.

[realFedUp]

32. her state office numbers....

504 589-2427
225 389-0395
318 676-3085
337 436-6650

[rudy23]

36. She can't contradict herself

I've seen several posts that accuse her of putting Katrina relief ahead of Alito

She has been the main one to accuse Congress of dragging their feet on Katrina (+ Rita) relief. Believe me, it's a bit of a priority in Louisiana. She can't turn around and say, "Well I guess it can wait, now that my party wants to bog down Congress." It is criminal how these American citizens' needs are being ignored by Congress, while they are left to just figure out how to survive. Time is of the essence, and though she may be through in La. anyway, she would be crucified if she helped to stall Congress now. It's a unique issue, and she's in a unique position.

She's more conservative than I'd like, and who knows what she would do if not for the hurricanes. I just get the sense that even the people on this board have "Katrina fatigue" (not to mention Rita obliviousness). All Bush and Congress have to do is drag their feet for a few more months, and then the outrage from even the most hardcore Democrats will die down.

[pitohui]

37. right here is someone who gets it

She has been the main one to accuse Congress of dragging their feet on Katrina (+ Rita) relief. Believe me, it's a bit of a priority in Louisiana. She can't turn around and say, "Well I guess it can wait, now that my party wants to bog down Congress." It is criminal how these American citizens' needs are being ignored by Congress, while they are left to just figure out how to survive. Time is of the essence, and though she may be through in La. anyway, she would be crucified if she helped to stall Congress now. It's a unique issue, and she's in a unique position.


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