Little-Acorn
Gold Member
As predicted long ago, one more Senate seat is about to be turned over to the Republicans, by Americans in Louisiana who are fed up with Democrat failures, lies, and criminal behavior.
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http://online.wsj.com/articles/fail-mary-1417814406
Best of the Web Today: Fail Mary
Election 2014, the encore.
By JAMES TARANTO
Mary Landrieu isn’t just expected to lose re-election in tomorrow’s runoff. She’s expected to be trounced so badly that presumably sympathetic journalists in search of analogies are settling for allusions to Hurricane Katrina and the Islamic State.
“She has been rebuffed by her liberal colleagues in Washington and pilloried at home for voting with the president, and has watched helplessly while her Democratic base has eroded like a cheap levee,” observes the New York Times’s Richard Fausset, following up that lead with an understated second paragraph: “These are hard times for Mary L. Landrieu, the last Deep South Democrat in the United States Senate.”
ABC’s Jeff Zeleny offers this “analysis”: “To say that Democrats have thrown in the towel would be an understatement. The Iraqi Army fled Mosul slower than Democrats abandoned Mary Landrieu in the wake of the November thumping in Senate races across the country.”
The Washington Post’s Sean Sullivan and Karen Tumulty reach further back into history: “With the odds stacked heavily against her, Landrieu soldiers on virtually alone—this year’s political equivalent of those holdout Japanese infantrymen who were discovered waging war on remote Pacific islands decades after World War II had ended.”
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http://online.wsj.com/articles/fail-mary-1417814406
Best of the Web Today: Fail Mary
Election 2014, the encore.
By JAMES TARANTO
Mary Landrieu isn’t just expected to lose re-election in tomorrow’s runoff. She’s expected to be trounced so badly that presumably sympathetic journalists in search of analogies are settling for allusions to Hurricane Katrina and the Islamic State.
“She has been rebuffed by her liberal colleagues in Washington and pilloried at home for voting with the president, and has watched helplessly while her Democratic base has eroded like a cheap levee,” observes the New York Times’s Richard Fausset, following up that lead with an understated second paragraph: “These are hard times for Mary L. Landrieu, the last Deep South Democrat in the United States Senate.”
ABC’s Jeff Zeleny offers this “analysis”: “To say that Democrats have thrown in the towel would be an understatement. The Iraqi Army fled Mosul slower than Democrats abandoned Mary Landrieu in the wake of the November thumping in Senate races across the country.”
The Washington Post’s Sean Sullivan and Karen Tumulty reach further back into history: “With the odds stacked heavily against her, Landrieu soldiers on virtually alone—this year’s political equivalent of those holdout Japanese infantrymen who were discovered waging war on remote Pacific islands decades after World War II had ended.”
