Joan Walsh thinks Sen. Landrieu's support of Keystone is to appease her Obama-hating 'white constituents'

Greg P. | 10:56 AM on November 13, 2014

As we reported yesterday, Sen. Mary Landrieu thinks a vote on the Keystone pipeline can save her Senate seat from challenger Rep. Bill Cassidy, but a few lines from her floor speech in support of the project yesterday are ruffling feathers.

Landrieu won’t campaign with the president, but she’ll steal his slogan:

Go home, Mary Landrieu, you've done too many keg stands. "Si se puede" pass the KeystoneXL pipeline? Are you really for real ma'am? #p2

— Seth ? (@mfpseth) November 12, 2014

Como se dice 'pandering sell out'? “@kate_sheppard: Mary Landrieu just said "si se puede" pass the Keystone XL.” #NoKXL

— Kim McCabe (@Kim_McCabe) November 12, 2014

https://twitter.com/NeilAnAlien/status/532624164193337345

Vomit.

And it’s not just “sí, se puede.” She used the memory of “fallen soldiers” as a reason to approve Keystone, too:

Mary Landrieu just invoked fallen soldiers and "si se puede" in urging the Senate to vote for KeystoneXL. Fuck. Off. Mary.

— Seth ? (@mfpseth) November 12, 2014

Double vomit.

Salon’s Joan Walsh has had enough:

Is using "Si se puede!" to sell Keystone the most cynical thing Mary Landrieu has ever done? Discuss. http://t.co/xVPJVhLraD

— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) November 13, 2014

In her Senate floor speech, Landrieu had the gall to hijack the old United Farmworkers saying, “Si se puede!” which had already been repurposed by Obama. It was to save Landrieu and other southern Dems, of course, that the president postponed executive action to defer deportation until after the election – and look where that got him.

Now Landrieu, who’s partly responsible for dividing countless Latino families who might have been kept together had the president kept his promise, is speaking Spanish and borrowing the slogan of low-wage Latino laborers to back the pipeline. Shameless.

But…

https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/532908108436492289

Oh, FFS! Are we back at this again?

@SonnyBunch True. Everybody knows Louisiana' interest in the oil industry is for no other reason than racist opposition to Obama.

— Will Truman (@trumwill) November 13, 2014

@SonnyBunch @Heminator What a load of *bleep*

— Quin Hillyer (@QuinHillyer) November 13, 2014

@SonnyBunch Joanie needs to go chat with about 50 white people I know in LA who worship Obama.

— CatsPolitics (@CatsPolitics) November 13, 2014

Privileged white woman @joanwalsh yells "RAAAACIST!" at a lamp post. Film at 11. @SonnyBunch

— Sleve McDichael (@SeahawkBurrrton) November 13, 2014

So let’s get this straight. Joan Walsh praised Sen. Landrieu for her comments on race right before the election, but now the Senator is playing the race card in a “craven” move to save her seat?

This is all very complicated.

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