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Grateful Obamacare is still alive? Thank Mary Landrieu
By Robert Mann The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is safe for now, and let’s hope Congress will fix its flaws and enhance it, something members should have done years ago. Correcting the ACA would be...
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Should Democrats dump Dixie?
By Robert Mann The questions were inevitable after U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s downfall sounded a sad coda for the Democrats’ already sagging fortunes in the midterm elections: Is the Democratic Party...
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Sen. Elbert Guillory promotes GOP with fear, bigotry
Screen shot of Elbert Guillory video by Free at Last PAC By Robert Mann There’s still a month left in 2014, but the prize for the year’s most egregious act of fear mongering in Louisiana politics...
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‘Double Bill’ Cassidy’s Double Talk: Lamar White
Screen shot Bill Cassidy Senate spot By Lamar White Yesterday, Rep. Bill Cassidy, an Illinois native who is now the front-runner in the run-off election for U.S. Senate in Louisiana, responded to a...
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“Double Bill” Cassidy: For Years, Bill Cassidy Billed LSU While Working In...
Rep. Bill Cassidy (Screen shot from C-SPAN) By Lamar White On at least 21 different occasions during the last two and a half years, Rep. Bill Cassidy billed Louisiana State University Health Science...
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What’s the GOP’s problem with Louisiana’s black voters?
By Robert Mann Sen. Mary Landrieu has taken a beating for her poor showing among white voters in the Nov. 4 Louisiana U.S. Senate primary. Only 18 percent of white voters chose Landrieu over her...
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Does Mary Landrieu have a chance? Not if she can’t win more white votes
Screen shot of November 6, 2014, Louisiana exit poll from CNN.com By Robert Mann It’s now clear that Sen. Mary Landrieu’s relentless talk about her clout took a big hit in Tuesday’s election. Not only...
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On higher education funding, Bill Cassidy is skipping class
By Robert Mann The venue of last Wednesday’s U.S. Senate debate between Sen. Mary Landrieu and Rep. Bill Cassidy – the Journalism Building on LSU’s campus – was odd given how this campaign has largely...
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Another blow to Bill Cassidy’s conservative cred: Woody Jenkins endorses Rob...
Former state Rep. Woody Jenkins By Robert Mann By now, it’s clear that many Louisiana conservatives don’t believe Rep. Bill Cassidy is one of them. In his race against Sen. Mary Landrieu, Cassidy is...
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Will the real Bill Cassidy please stand up?
By Robert Mann Former President Bill Clinton, who was in Baton Rouge last Monday to campaign for Sen. Mary Landrieu, has scorned the attacks on her as someone too liberal for Louisiana. Clinton...
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Why does Bill Cassidy want you to work until age 70?
By Robert Mann If ever a candidate for high public office proved himself disconnected from the worries and fears of average citizens, it was Rep. Bill Cassidy in last Tuesday’s U.S. Senate debate in...
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It’s about Mary Landrieu’s heart, not her home
Sen. Mary Landrieu By Robert Mann “Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.” ― Paul Theroux. Now that her Republican antagonists have decided not to trounce her at the polls...
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Says the Louisiana GOP: buy a house — and keep your mouths shut
By Robert Mann I’ve already written about the silly lawsuit by state Sen. Paul Hollis challenging Sen. Mary Landrieu’s candidacy based on the question of her legal residency. Hollis will almost...
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David Vitter’s tacit admission that Obamacare won’t be repealed
U.S. Sen. David Vitter By Robert Mann I’ve argued for months that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will play only a minor role in the 2014 U.S. Senate race between Sen. Mary Landrieu and her main...
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To help veterans, Congress should stop making so many of them
#142020890 / gettyimages.com #142020890 / gettyimages.com By Robert Mann The news about the Veterans Administration is “reprehensible,” to quote VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. As a recent VA inspector...
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Sen. Mary Landrieu has the seniority, but will voters care?
Bollinger Shipyards CEO Boysie Bollinger in a new TV spot for Sen. Mary Landrieu By Robert Mann It’s said that when someone once asked then-House Speaker Sam Rayburn why the Texas congressional...
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Mary Landrieu might lose, but not because of her Obamacare vote
Sen. Mary Landrieu By Robert Mann From Baton Rouge to Washington, the verdict among political observers is that Sen. Mary Landrieu’s 2009 vote for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) doomed her re-election....
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Dismal numbers: polling and fundraising woes bedevil Cassidy’s campaign...
Public Policy Polling (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Robert Mann A new statewide poll is out on the 2014 Louisiana U.S. Senate race — and it’s not good news for Sen. Mary Landrieu‘s GOP opponent, Rep....
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The GOP’s Obamacare Insanity
By Robert Mann Among the definitions of insanity is one often attributed to Albert Einstein: “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” That, of course, could explain...
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Fixating on Landrieu’s Obamacare vote might not be a winning GOP strategy
Sen. Mary Landrieu (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Robert Mann It was an article of faith among some Republicans that President Obama’s reelection was doomed because voters would stampede to the polls in...
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