This week’s expected Senate vote go ahead with the Democrat-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline, is only being held because outgoing Senate Majority leader Harry Reid hopes that it will help embattle Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu retain her seat in next month’s run-off election in Louisiana.
The word around town is that Landrieu will lose to Rep. Bill Cassidy (R), regardless of whether she votes ‘yea’ to start the Keystone project.
This reeks of desperation by Democrats, and Republicans smell blood in the water.
Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse told “Fox News Sunday” that he hopes Obama will veto the bill, considering the oil is “the filthiest fuel on the planet.”
Whitehouse said he thinks the new Senate Republican majority “has long despised and denigrated this president and if they can roll him I think they would like to.”
He also argued that Senate Republicans twice passed on voting on a Democrat-sponsored Keystone bill.
The analysts think the 100-member Senate is now one vote shy of the 60 needed for passing Keystone. (They have the 59 votes as 14 Democrats and all 45 Republicans.)
The GOP-controlled House on Friday passed legislation, sponsored by Cassidy, to move forward with Keystone, which would carry crude oil from Canada and several U.S. states to Midwest and Gulf Coast refineries.-FOX
