Is Mary Landrieu Defensive, or Right?
Probably both.
Today, in advance of the Senate’s strictly partisan vote to proceed to debate on the health care reform bill, 1 Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu attempted to do what might have seemed impossible: She not only defended the $100 million in earmarks gifted to her state, but actually called herself “proud” of having asked for an amount she then, audaciously, put at about $300 million.
In her remarks today during the debate leading up to tonight’s historic vote, Landrieu made the point that federal money going to her state had been reduced because of a formula that counted one-time, Katrina-based relief as income. That accounting move cruelly inflated what the residents, and the state, really had to work with, and thereby deprived it of money it needed to rebuild. If she’s recounting the problem accurately, then the media attack she’s endured is just another example of our collective failure to do right by the survivors of Katrina.
- Will someone please reform this dysfunctional body before the U.S. Government becomes California? ↩
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