Louisiana Demo Gov. threatens GOP: Raise taxes or LSU football may get cancelled...

I am guessing the football program makes money...

Via Fox News:

Louisiana Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards is suggesting the legendary Louisiana State University football team’s 2016 season might be canceled — and other doomsday consequences — unless the GOP-led legislature swiftly passes a package of tax increases to help close a looming $940 million budget shortfall.
Edwards, who took office just last month, made the suggestions Thursday night in a rare, state-wide TV address.
Among the worst-case scenarios, he said, is that college campuses would be forced to close in April, resulting in student-athletes receiving grades of “incomplete” on their report cards, making them ineligible for the fall 2016 season.
“That means you can say farewell to college football next fall,” Edwards said in the address.
The warning about the LSU Tigers football program, which has won three national championships, captured most of the headlines.

Flashback Mary Landrieu Video: "Unelect" Me If You Don't Like ObamaCare

Done...

Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's political oil well runs dry...

Sen. Mary Landrieu was the last Democrat to hold state wide office in the Deep South. I wonder if she regrets being the 60th vote for Obamacare this morning?

(Fox News)- Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu lost her reelection bid Saturday in a runoff race with Republican challenger Rep. Bill Cassidy, despite a relentless, against-long-odds effort.
Landrieu, who was seeking a fourth term, trailed by double digits and had lost most of her support going into the election. With 100 percent of the precincts reporting late Saturday, Cassidy had received 56 percent of the vote, to 44 percent for Landrieu.
Landrieu barnstormed the state this week, driving some 1,200 miles in a rented SUV, stopping in little towns and bigger cities, making one last appeal to voters to give her another term in Washington.
“There is no quit,” Landrieu said in her concession speech. “It’s been nothing but a joy to serve this state for over 34 years.”

Louisiana dem encourages people to vote multiple times...

There is no such thing as vote fraud. Move along...

Via Townhall:

Who’s up for a fresh addition to the ever-expanding “voter fraud is a Republican myth” file? Democratic officials and campaign operatives have been caught on tape encouraging illegal voting on several occasions in recent election cycles, and anti-voter ID activists have literally cheered a swing-state poll worker who was convicted of the practice. Our latest installment comes to us from the Bayou State and features a Democratic mayor and former State Senator, who dispensed some pro tips on voting at a rally in advance of Saturday’s run-off election:
Video of Opelousas, Louisiana Mayor Don Cravins Sr.’s Nov. 3 remarks show him telling a crowd in his home town that ‘if you early voted, go vote again tomorrow. One more time’s not going to hurt.’
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Rasmussen: Demo Mary Landrieu losing Louisiana Senate runoff by 16 points...

I wonder if  Senator Mary Landrieu regrets being the 60th vote for Obamacare now?

Via Rasmussen:

Rasmussen Reports’ first survey of the Louisiana Senate runoff shows Republican challenger Bill Cassidy comfortably on his way to joining the new GOP Senate majority.
Cassidy posts a 15-point lead – 56% to 41%- over incumbent Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu among Likely Louisiana Voters in our latest statewide telephone survey. Just three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Landrieu edged Cassidy, a U.S. congressman, 42% to 41% on Election Day earlier this month, with eight candidates officially in the race. But under Louisiana’s so-called “jungle primary” rules, the contest will now be decided by a December 6 runoff because no candidate cleared the 50% mark.
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Demo Senator Mary Landrieu down by 16 points in Louisiana?

So long Mary...

Via MailOnline:

Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu is trailing her Republican challenger by a giant 16-point margin in a runoff for one of Louisiana's two U.S. Senate seats, according to poll results obtained by MailOnline.

The survey, commissioned by GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy's campaign, was leaked to media in order to fire a shot over the senator's bow and send a signal to energy lobbyists that her ship is taking on water.

It suggests that Democrats' worst fears have been realized even though Landrieu edged Casssidy by 1 percentage point on Election Day.

Desperate Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) Has Gone Rogue on Democrats...

Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu is locked in a runoff election that she has little chance of winning. She has abandoned Democrats in an attempt to save her job. Landrieu gave a three hour floor speech in support of the Keystone XL Pipeline and has finally gotten a commitment for a vote this year from Harry Reid. Afterwards, she blew off Chuck Schumer and wouldn't even speak to him. If she had done these things a years ago, she wouldn't be in the runoff. I doubt Louisiana voters will be impressed by her sudden change.
Via WaPo:

Landrieu had other ideas.
“I don’t think we necessarily need to wait until January,” she said Wednesday in a floor speech that lasted almost three hours. Landrieu made no attempt to hide her motive. “I’m going to do everything in my power here and at home on the campaign trail, where I’m still in a runoff, as you know, to get this project moving forward,” she said.
And later, she secured an agreement from Democratic and Republican leaders to hold a vote authorizing the pipeline as early as next Tuesday. House Republican leaders also announced plans to hold a vote as early as Thursday to authorize the pipeline, the ninth time the GOP-controlled House has voted to approve the pipeline in the past six years.
Before her remarks, Landrieu was spotted riding the escalator alone up from the Senate trains that carry lawmakers between their offices and the Capitol, toward a row of elevators. She was stone-faced and declined to answer questions from reporters. Once she reached the top level and stepped off, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), one of his party’s top campaign strategists, walked over.
Smiling, he asked Landrieu to step aside for a private conversation. She shook her head and moved briskly toward the elevator. As she did, she pointed to her phone, saying she had a call. Schumer paused for a moment as she moved away. His smile dropped, and he turned to follow her. “Mary, Mary,” he said, a few steps behind, asking her to speak with him. When she kept moving and ducked into an elevator, he hustled and jumped in to join her as the doors closed.

Jindal dumps Common Core in Louisiana...

Common Core was a good idea that was stupidly implemented.

Via WaPo:

Simmering tensions over the Common Core State Standards in Louisiana erupted into an intramural battle as Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) declared he was withdrawing his state from the national education standards while the state’s top education officials insisted Louisiana would keep them.
In a hastily arranged public announcement Wednesday, Jindal said he had issued an executive order to remove Louisiana from a consortium of states that is creating new standardized tests based on the Common Core standards in reading and math for grades K through 12.
Jindal, a possible presidential candidate, was an early supporter of the standards. But as they came under fire by critics, including tea party groups, Jindal’s support dissolved.
He said Wednesday he was opposed to the standards because he came to see them as a “federal takeover” of state education, even though the Common Core was created by a group of states and the federal government had no official role.

Sticker Shock: Obamacare raises premiums for canceled plans by 50% in Louisiana

Change...

CBS: Louisiana insurance commissioner also says average premium for an individual insurance policy in Louisiana is going up by 50%.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) November 8, 2013

The Louisiana purchase doesn't look like such a god deal now.

Obama's Justice Department sues to stop Louisiana school vouchers

Liberals don't want to lose control of the indoctrination of your children. 

Via Fox News:

The Justice Department is trying to stop a school vouchers program in Louisiana that attempts to help families send their children to independent schools instead of under-performing public schools.
The agency wants to stop the program, led by Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, in any school district that remains under a desegregation court order.
In papers filed in U.S. District Court in New Orleans, the agency said Louisiana distributed vouchers in 2012-13 to roughly 570 public school students in districts that are still under such orders and that “many of those vouchers impeded the desegregation process.”
The federal government argues that allowing students to attend independent schools under the voucher system could create a racial imbalance in public school systems protected by desegregation orders.
Jindal — who last year expanded the program that started in 2008 — said this weekend that the department’s action is “shameful” and said President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder “are trying to keep kids trapped in failing public schools against the wishes of their parents.”
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Stupid Government Shuts Down 16 Oil Sucking Barges in Louisiana

First, the Obama administration refused to accept the offer of skimming ships from the Netherlands because they were not 100% efficient. Then, they left miles of oil skimming oil booms setting in a warehouse in Maine. Now, our government has shut down 16 oil sucking barges so they can check their life preservers or something. Could the Obama administration be anymore incompetent?

ABC News reported:

Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state’s oil-soaked waters. Today, against the governor’s wishes, those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.

“It’s the most frustrating thing,” the Republican governor said today in Buras, La. “Literally, yesterday morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges.”

Sixteen barges sat stationary today...

So why stop now?...