Mary Landrieu - snookered again

[Neecy]

In the face of Holy Joe abandoning Katrina victims, it's interesting to read what Landrieu had to say about him when she helped him campaign last year against Lamont.

"One of the first calls I made after the levees broke was to Joe Lieberman," Landrieu said in a statement. "In a time of national crisis, Joe had the calm, intelligence and compassion to help get me — and our country — through those difficult months."

Lieberman is the ranking Democrat on the Senate's Homeland Security panel, which probed the government's response to Hurricane Katrina and made recommendations on how officials could do a better job.

Landrieu and Lieberman met voters and ate lunch on plastic plates at Hartford's Rajun Cajun restaurant. Landrieu enjoyed the jambalaya. Lieberman had macaroni and cheese.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,225800,00.html

Every time she tries to cozy up to the right wingers, they screw her over. Wake up, Mary...

[Theres-a]

1. Son of a bitch. nt

[BayCityProgressive]

3. Wake Up?

she IS a right winger. She is bought and paid for by big oil. She isn't a friend to progressives.

[Zorra]

2. Typhoid Mary is wide awake and working for the right-wingers

whenever she can get away with it.

[xchrom]

4. she knows they are going to screw her -- they are covering her ass.

[deaniac21]

18. Hmmmmm, this is bringing to mind a picture.......

[xchrom]

20. i guess i was being just a tad FREUDIAN!!!!

:yoiks:

[depakid]

5. In the end, pandering doesn't pay.

People like Lieberman aren't interesting in anything but themselves- and they'll turn on you everytime.

[ClintonTyree]

6. "Lieberman had macaroni and cheese"....

that's Lieberman, alright. Just like Ned Flanders, "a piece of white bread with a glass of water on the side for dipping". Lieberman....plain white bread, not a bit of spice in him. A freaking turncoat neo-con rat bastard. :mad:

[DavidDvorkin]

9. It may be a matter of dietary laws

Perhaps Lieberman keeps kosher. Macaroni and cheese would be the safest dish, in that case.

[Leopolds Ghost]

12. Actually, the soul food version includes ham chunks. What kinda Cajun restaurant was this?

"And how did you feel being denied pork by these... Raging, Raging... Cajuns?"

"Terrible!"

[bunkerbuster1]

13. Give you that. Not likely to have any shellfish in mac & cheese n/t

[Beelzebud]

10. She should have known he couldn't be trusted when he ordered mac and cheese and Rajun Cajun's...

[WI_DEM]

7. Mary cozy up to right-wingers? but she is even more conservative than Lieberman!

if you compare voting records.

[Jacobin]

8. She's staunchly pro choice

otherwise, its a pretty messy record

[SoCalDem]

15. That's why choice should NOT be in the political arena at all

It muddies the water and allows conservatives to win elections they should never win.

If we can ever get that off the table and back into the homes and doctor's offices where it belongs, politicians could be more accurately judged.

The left kind of does with choice, the same thing that repubes do with the religious thing.

We overlook the overall record because they are on "our side" on that one issue.and of course they rarely ever even legislate on it anyway. It's just an election tool.. like guns, school prayer, and gay marriage.

The legislatures should be forced to eliminate those issues and stick with the stuff that is for the "commons".

[Zodiak]

11. You are correct

Her voting record is far worse than Liebermen. Her cupie-doll face and the fact that she represents New Orleans makes a lot of people dismiss her as a good-hearted Democrat who was been victimized. Her voting record is similar to any Republican across the aisle, though.

Leiberman (Connecticut) DLC 44.82758621
Rockefeller (West Virginia) 41.37931034
Conrad (North Dakota) DLC 41.37931034
Baucus (Montana) DLC 39.65517241
Carper (Deleware) DLC 34.48275862
Johnson (South Dakota) DLC 31.03448276
Lincoln (Arkansas) DLC 31.03448276
Salazar (Colorado) DLC 24.13793103
Pryor (Arkansas) DLC 22.4137931
Nelson (Florida) DLC 20.68965517
Landrieu (Louisianna) DLC 17.24137931
Nelson (Nebraska) DLC 3.448275862

[Neecy]

14. Here she is...

Partying it up with Joe after his mac 'n cheese attack.

[KingFlorez]

16. For all the misinformed people calling Mary a right-winger

Check her record, she's right in the center

http://www.issues2000.org/Senate/Mary_Landrieu.htm

[wisteria]

17. She never seems to back the right people up with her votes or praise.

Senator Kerry has helped her a few times and she doesn't repay the favor.
I remember her backing Leiberman very strongly. Seemed he appreciated her help, Huh!

[Neecy]

19. no kidding...

And just why DID she support Joe? This happened *before* she endorsed him:

Why is Sen. Landrieu endorsing Sen. Lieberman when he voted against S. 3711, a bill to provide revenue sharing for Louisiana coastal reconstruction from new oil and gas leases?
Sen. Lieberman voted against cloture for the bill (which passed 86-12) and then was a no show for the next two votes but is clearly opposed based on his initial cloture vote?

Sen. Landrieu called S.3711, "It is historic for Louisiana because our state is finally on the road to receiving a sizable portion of the revenue generated from oil and gas production off our shores, The bill (S.3711) gives Louisiana the necessary resources we need to restore our eroding coastline, build strong levees, and protect our people and infrastructure from future hurricane damage."

Joe Lieberman voted against even giving this bipartisan bill a hearing! How is it in Louisiana's interests to have Joe Lieberman in the Senate? To confirm more Michael Browns and vote against the most critical bill for LA in a generation?

Is Sen. Landrieu endorsing Joe Lieberman because they are personal friends? Because Joe Lieberman is no friend of Louisiana.

http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4118

[WritersBlock]

21. I have said again and again that we need a Democrat in Landrieu's Senate seat.

However, I will give her credit for coming out against the "surge."

I'm hoping that now that the Democrats are in the majority, maybe her vertebrae will stiffen up a bit.

[jus_the_facts]

22. She couldn't care less about her constituency...I've bitched and moaned about her for years now....

....will NEVER vote for her sorry ass ever again...because she's a DINO through and through. :nopity:

[Gold Metal Flake]

23. Landrieu = Lieberman

They have jobs to do. Same job, same employers.