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Sen. Landrieu Remains Undecided On Eve Of Test Health Care Vote
Christina Bellantoni | November 20, 2009, 4:04PM
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
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Several conservative Democrats have signaled they will vote with the party to bring the health care bill to the Senate floor for debate, but Sen. Mary Landrieu is still on the fence.
TPMDC's Brian Beutler is on the scene at the Department of Health and Human Services, where Landrieu (D-LA) joined an Adoption Day event.
"I haven't made a final decision, because I literally have been...reading the bill, and that's going to continue 'til about 6 or 7 tonight, and then after I have all the information in front of me I'm gonna make a final decision."
Landrieu said she had been leaning against voting "yes" on the motion to proceed until a meeting with Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday, which tilted her into "neutral" territory.
She said she will likely release a statement regarding her final decision in the morning.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
November 20, 2009 4:10 PM
Mary Landrieu. A rare example of a politician who thinks she's playing dumb for the rubes back home but is, in fact, as dumb as she thinks she's pretending to be.
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Mateo123
November 20, 2009 4:55 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Rare? They're all like that. This Congress is absolutely the biggest disappointment I've ever witnessed in my time here. It's unbelievable. They're all looking to line their campaign coffers.
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FlownOver
November 20, 2009 4:15 PM
"…undecided on what to do," eh?
Has she considered a couple of sets of deep knee bends over a fire hydrant? She should.
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FlownOver
November 20, 2009 4:15 PM
"…undecided on what to do," eh?
Has she considered a couple of sets of deep knee bends over a fire hydrant? She should.
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FlownOver
November 20, 2009 4:19 PM in reply to FlownOver
Sorry for the double post. I guess once was sufficiently offensive.
Meanwhile, "Landrieu said she would decide tonight and put out … in the morning.
There. Fixed.
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Shrubbit
November 20, 2009 4:18 PM
Nothing says 'coward' quite like a Saturday Morning news dump.
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freaktown
November 20, 2009 4:18 PM
what new piece of information is she waiting for, that she thinks she's going to find between tonight and tomorrow morning, that will help her decide?
i call bs. she knows what she's going to do but she wants the leverage holding out can give her.
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jbentley4
November 20, 2009 4:26 PM
25% of Louisianans are uninsured - she should be leading the charge to pass this bill
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agio
November 20, 2009 4:29 PM in reply to jbentley4
Thing is, SHE is not part of that 25%, so why should she give a shit.
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rbe1
November 20, 2009 4:38 PM
If this creature votes against cloture, I want to see her declare herself a republican or a fat brainless piece of shit. Either one will satisfy me.
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SBG
November 20, 2009 4:53 PM in reply to rbe1
She should be informed by leadership that if she votes against cloture on even bringing it up on debate that there will be no funds to rebuild NO as long as she is in the Senate.
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JC Aevaliotis
November 20, 2009 5:06 PM in reply to SBG
What a disgusting thought. There should be consequences within the party for her dithering, but to suggest that we'd withhold long overdue aid for folks in NO that have been neglected for too long already is beyond cynical.
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LBJs Brain
November 21, 2009 12:11 PM in reply to JC Aevaliotis
Bingo.
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socraticgadfly
November 20, 2009 5:03 PM
A drama queen, she is.
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Stroszek
November 20, 2009 5:06 PM
Well, I'm glad she's not figuratively reading the bill.
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Walter Mitty
November 20, 2009 5:24 PM
You're just voting to open debate for crying out loud. I could maybe see her grandstanding if this was the cloture vote to end debate and an up or down vote.
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Schmed- ley
November 20, 2009 5:50 PM
she's an attention...oh, what's the PC word?....oh yeah...whore who's doing her damnedest to get to the front of the tit-for-tat goodies line. Given the number of TPM posts devoted to her today, I'd say that her strategy is working.
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bluebell
November 20, 2009 6:48 PM
If I were a Republican catching a Democrat making fun of Sarah Palin, I'd ask the Democrat to explain Mary Landrieu.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
November 20, 2009 7:21 PM in reply to bluebell
Landrieu's an opportunistic idiot. We hate her and mock her for it. Palin's an opportunistic idiot. Republicans swoon and worship her for it.
Not really all that hard to explain.
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agio
November 20, 2009 7:22 PM in reply to bluebell
Mary Landrieu presumably doesn't drive around in a tour bus with the words Mary Landrieu scrawled all over it.
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