U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu: Her Service Will Be Missed By Louisiana And The Nation.

Mary Landrieu's three terms in congress was a productive one both on the state and national level.  She was a Senator who understood the issues and did not use ideology as a political tool.  Serving under 3 Presidents, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama she voted with and against some of their policies.  But she never voted to shut the government down.

If she voted 97% of the time with Obama's policies that speaks well of her because no thanks to the republicans, the economy is growing, job creation is robust, unemployment is down, federal spending is down, the deficit is down and being reduced on a steady basis, the country has been safe from terror attacks unlike under the previous administration, Bin Laden was brought to justice, inflation is under control, the GDP is growing, the country has a successful foreign policy and the ACA and medicaid expansion has insured millions of Americans.  And just recently 3 more republican governors said their state would participate in the medicaid expansion under the ACA.

A noted conservative think tank said Bill Cassidy voted 98% of the time with republican speaker of the house John Boehner.  Well any one who follows politics knows that the republican controlled U.S. House has no real accomplishments for the country or its people to speak of.  They did vote to shut down the government two years ago and Cassidy was right there with them. Yes, this writer will take Landrieu's 97% vote with Obama over Cassidy's 98% vote with John Boehner any day.

Louisiana will miss Senator Landrieu service because the republican party has no record on moving the state forward.  Jindal and the state republican party have been a disaster.  If I was a young man I would run for governor.  I could handle any thing the republicans would try to throw at me.  And that says it all.


Note:  Bill Cassidy served 3 terms as a U.S. Representative but during the campaign could not list any one accomplishment under his signature that became law.  So like a republican ditto head when you have nothing to show the people, attack your opponent.


This commentary written by John Lucia.