I'm honestly baffled at the Democratic Delusion that supporting the Keystone XL pipeline will somehow help Mary Landrieu's re-election bid.
The idea that workers in the Louisiana oil patch, who will not gain job one from the pipeline, will somehow love her if the Dems throw in the towel on this Canada-China spillway is crazy. People who work in the patch know the business. They know this project will not advantage them at all.
Same with whatever "centrist" voters remain in our ever-more-polarized state. They understand the American economic gain from Keystone is net zero, unless you count future jobs for spill cleanup workers.
And Democratic voters? We tired, old cheerleaders who've been sweet-talking Sen. Landrieu term after term to hold on to a slim party majority? What could possibly be in it for us?
Her chief argument in the primary, that the chairmanship of the Energy Committee is heap big clout and boosts jobs in the state, is null now. She will be, should she retain her seat, the ranking member of a minority party whose role will be something for the new, crazed majority to ignore or, at best, mock. So much for clout.
And if her advisers believe that the "show of bipartisanship" is the real appeal, they only demonstrate a deep ignorance of their own partisans. We have had plenty of examples of Democrats' skill at rolling over and playing dead. Don't expect a Milk Bone for that old trick.
Now, if we could get a "Sic 'em" once in a while, you might be surprised at how "enthusiastic" a base can be.