Mary Landrieu: Politically Dead Woman Walking

By Rob Janicki

Mary Landrieu is in the deepest political trouble of her life long career in elected political office.  The architect of the "Louisiana Purchase", which she traded for her Obamacare vote, is more than likely looking at her last weeks as a United States Senator.

Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu is trailing her Republican challenger by a giant 16-point margin in a runoff for one of Louisiana's two U.S. Senate seats, according to poll results obtained by MailOnline.

The survey, commissioned by GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy's campaign, was leaked to media in order to fire a shot over the senator's bow and send a signal to energy lobbyists that her ship is taking on water.

It suggests that Democrats' worst fears have been realized even though Landrieu edged Casssidy by 1 percentage point on Election Day.

Granted, this was a Republican poll, but does it really make any difference if Cassidy beats Landrieu by 6 points or 16 points?  The result would be the same.  Landrieu out and Cassidy in.


Landrieu is not yet dead in the water.  She didn't get to be a three term United States Senator without developing sharp political skills.  Here's Mary's last chance.

Landrieu has lined up for what Republican Capitol Hill aides are calling the 'Hail Mary XL,' a legislative strategy to save her Senate seat by winning a vote to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring 700,000 barrels of oil daily from the Canadian province of Alberta to the Gulf coast.

Whether this will be enough to turn around Landrieu's chances for re-election in the runoff election on December 6th is still problematical.

She may get her chance on Tuesday if she can find 14 other Democrats in the lame-duck Senate to join her in backing the project's construction. All 45 Republicans have already signed on. 

As of Thursday one whip count shared with MailOnline found that she was just two votes short, giving her a 58 of the 60 votes she will need to override Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's objections and force a roll call. Continue reading DailyMail

Landrieu, like Sisyphus, has a steep uphill battle to convince her own party to support her quest to pass a vote on the XL Pipeline Project to bring heavy crude oil down from Canada.  

The eco-fascists are lined up against such a vote and Reid and the Obama administration are opposed to passage of a bill that would bypass the Obama administration, as they are afraid of losing the support of the enviro-Nazi lobby and their hefty financial contributions to all things liberal.

Even if such a bill were to pass, would it really have any effect on Landrieu's quest for re-election?  It seems to most political observers to be too little, too late.