So helping push Keystone for GOP will get more Dems to polls in Louisiana?

[themaguffin]

Did they learn nothing from last week???

Seriously - even if she does win and I doubt it given that Dem turnout would be lower without Democratic leadership flipping of its base again, let alone with them screwing us.... how will this change the Senate?

Will she get us to 50 votes. Nope.

We get nothing. Nothing. And add to that, we can't even get anything for the damn pipeline.

What crap.

[louis-t]

1. I think the pipeline will only be a political tool for a while.

It is becoming less economically feasible every day. As the price of oil drops, the high cost of extracting should stop oil companies for the near future.

[Andy823]

2. Yep, I agree

It went down about $2.88 today, last time I looked, and is now about $74.30 a barrel. Some say it will go even lower, and right now it's low enough that they are talking about not drilling any new wells up in Canada because of the high cost of getting it out of the ground.

[themaguffin]

3. even for the "drill baby drill' party?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. The pipeline would produce a lot of blue collar jobs. That's who they're attempting to win over. nt

[themaguffin]

5. I know, but does anyone think she can win a run off??

[Nuclear Unicorn]

7. She pulled less than 50% of the vote while the majority of votes were split between 2 GOPers.

One might be tempted to say the Dems are sacrificing their Enviro-Cred for a dead candidate walking but the fact remains the party base isn't going anywhere and the PTB know it. As soon as 2016 rolls around the inevitable rallying cry will be given -- and heeded.

This is a play for Middle America to lessen a cudgel the GOP has successfully wielded for some time now.

[themaguffin]

9. leave "enviro-cred" aside and just look at the politics

what do we gain?

Maybe a senate seat? MAYBE? Again, we're depending on turnout for a runoff and the added push is Keystone.
Even if Democrats in LA are more supportive of it. I don't see it helping much.

And again, at the end of the day, it's for one seat that won't change the major dynamic of the Senate.

Keystone IS going to happen, so let's get something out of it.

[alp227]

6. Nonsense

http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/11/12/fox-revives-debunked-keystone-xl-sustainable-jo/201543

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. The people in Louisiana seem to think otherwise and the Senate seems to think their conerns are

worth voting on. Perhaps you should forward your link to Sen. Landrieu and suggest she recommend the vote on her behalf be cancelled.

[Boom Sound 416]

10. It's pretty unbelievable.

I wonder if the WH delays announcement of the veto until after the runoff.

[JEB]

11. A chance to demonstrate our subservience.

[Eridenus]

12. Keystone XL doesn't exist anymore.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/10/14/keystone-xl-dead/

[jwirr]

13. Exactly.