You know what? I give up...

[CreekDog]

Nobody's going to play political hardball on Landreiu. And people here are even wincing at it.

Let her roll all over us.

Maybe she can kill some other Democratic priority --maybe that will be less important than not playing hardball with her.

(sorry for the edit, but if this party and Administration won't send a bill for "hell to pay" to people in their own party that torpedo basic priorities and basic, noncontroversial appointments from their very own party...)

Then they will keep doing it to us.

:cry:

When did being "nice" become more important than defending what we care about? :grr:

[Parche]

1. i feel yur pain

we need to clean house next erection....:hi:

[awoke_in_2003]

20. "clean house next erection"

be careful where you point that thing :)

[JI7]

2. convince the people of your state to become more liberal

[CreekDog]

4. it's not about liberal or conservative --I don't want her reelected to anything

ever again.

she put a political price on economic appointments, that price was paid and now she's backing out of the deal.

i think she should be kicked out of the caucus.

let her run as a Republican if she thinks going nuclear on Obama and the economy is the solution.

whatever she does, i don't have to support it and i'd love to help create a bruising primary campaign highlighting this type of behavior.

[Mimosa]

3. GO AFTER VITTER FIRST! n/t

[CreekDog]

5. Go after Vitter anyway --but this is about her

I don't want her either.

Sorry. :shrug:

And I suggest the key to this is simply telling the people from Louisiana the kind of person they have for a Senator in her (and him, but this "hold" nonsense is going on now).

[Mimosa]

6. Well, you know how Looziana works...

There's that 'family dynasty' thing.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

7. Sorry -

Her replacement will make David Vitter look like a LIBERAL!!!

[CreekDog]

8. I guess we have no choice but to let her hold us hostage then

no choice whatsoever.

:eyes:

[JI7]

10. it's because of the people in your state. the people in Mass NY CA would not

elect someone who was like her.

the people in your state do. so convince them to not support poeple likeher (and vitter and jindal)

[CreekDog]

11. WTH?

i live in the Bay Area.

she's too conservative to be called a Republican here. :wtf:

[JI7]

15. are they the only ones to vote ?

[CreekDog]

16. you lost me man, i have no idea what you're talking about

The Bay Area votes so lopsidedly Democratic that it pulls most Democrats across the finish line in our state.

Even when Schwarzenegger ran in 2003 (governor recall) the Bay Area voted to keep the Democratic governor by a margin of 65 to 35.

There's no much more we can do.

[JI7]

18. i thought you were talking about louisiana

[CreekDog]

24. i'm talking about Democrats who extort the party for things they can't get votes for

conventionally.

wherever that happens.

in this case, it's Landreiu and she's practically extorting economic appointments to get not what she asked for, but something more now that her demands have been met.

she's messing with all of us...and people are going to apologize for her?

:wtf:

[LisaM]

12. Scott Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rudy Giuliani, Alfonse D'Amato...

No, those states would never elect someone like Mary Landrieu....


:sarcasm:

[JI7]

13. Democrats didn't nominate them, and they won because they are seen as moderates

with mostly republican votes and enough Dems

[pacalo]

17. The people in those states don't depend on the oil industry for their paychecks.

Landrieu was looking out for the interest of people who work in the oil industry, from Baton Rouge down to the Gulf Coast, as well as for those who fish out of the Gulf for a living. I'm not excusing her for her methods, just explaining her action.

I agree with Laf.La.Dem. in that Landrieu is the lesser of two evils.

Please don't attack the messenger. I'm just answering the question about how Louisiana voters think.

Until another substitute for oil/gasoline has become mainstream, & the manufacturing of that new method affords comparable paychecks, we're not getting much better than Landrieu. :(

[JI7]

19. i know, tha'ts what i mean by it goes back to the people of the state

it's like the polls with most people disapproving of congress but most being ok with their member and reelecting most of them.

[awoke_in_2003]

21. the ones who fish in the Gulf...

do not figure into the equation. They cannot come up with BP money.

[Radical Activist]

9. Her state was hit by Katrina and she still opposes action on climate change.

That's the kind of stupidity I expect from talk radio ditto heads.

[onestep]

14. It's just some rough water .

Hang in there my friend.

[laughingliberal]

22. K & R nt

[boppers]

23. The more I hear about politics there, the less I believe in their statehood.

It comes across as corrupt, inbred, bizarre, cronyism.

Since I am not a native, I can't really speak to/for the culture, but as a person from Arizona and Oregon, I can look and say:

:wtf: