Vulnerable Senate Democrats Must Back Up Hollow Words On Keystone XL, Energy Issues

Mary LandrieuIf you believe the protestations of vulnerable Senate Democrats in the upcoming November elections, they oppose the Obama administration’s hard left position on the Keystone XL pipeline and a variety of other energy and natural resource issues in which President Obama is out of touch with American voters. These vulnerable Democrats often claim to support the Keystone pipeline, the Pebble mine in Alaska, efforts to rein in the EPA and a variety of other centrist positions currently in the political crosshairs. If you believe what they tell you, voting for them is a vote against Obama administration overreach. But if that is the case, why is nothing being done to rein in such overreach?

As the November 2014 elections rapidly approach, vulnerable Democratic senators such as Mary Landrieu from Louisiana, Mark Begich from Alaska, Mark Pryor from Arkansas, Kay Hagan from North Carolina and Mark Warner from Virginia issue increasingly frequent and forceful statements against Obama administration overreach on energy and environment issues. Yet if they mean what they say, and if they have a desire to back up their words with action, they should have much greater impact in the energy and natural resource discussion than making a show of waving their fists at the Obama administration.

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