What does it Take to Build a Pipeline?

I have always thought Mary Landrieu looked a little too much like Miss Piggy to be in politics. She's supposedly a "conservative" Democrat. We can see how conservative she has really been by the fact that for the last six years on the Senate Energy Committee she has done nothing to get the Keystone Pipeline approved. You remember, the one that will mean hundreds of thousands of union and labor jobs and the boost to the economy that will go with its construction from the Dakotas to the Gulf? It would bring decades worth of good paying energy industry jobs both in its construction and as we refined on the Gulf the oil Canada pumps from her tar sand deposits.

Ms. Mary Landrieu, a liberal carpetbagger from Alexandria Virginia with a polished Northern accent, has done pretty good for herself as the Senator from Louisiana. Apparently what it finally takes to make Ms. Landrieu (wasn't Landrieu an evil computer-villain on a Star Trek episode?) a "conservative" is the prospect of losing her Senate seat in a runoff where polls have her far behind her GOP opponent. Senate seats are usually lifetime sinecures; remember Senators Grand Cyclops Robert Byrd of the West Virginia Klu Klux Klan and everyone's favorite desperate turncoat, Alien Spector? Now Ms. Landrieu is so desperate to get the Keystone Pipeline bill she stonewalled for the last six years passed that she's breaking a sweat. She even told her felllow liberal NY Senator Schumer to chuck it when he offered to campaign for her.

Is this the perfect storm? Is our Manchurian President Obama, just back from the Asian-Pacific summit, where he promised Red China the US will shrink its economy even further to cut greenhouse emissions, going to pass, or to veto this bill? The answer to "What does it take to build a pipeline?" is apparently the possibility of a Democratic Louisiana Senator getting kicked out on her fat...nose.