That brings us back to Landrieu
by SAM HANNA, JR. - The Ouachita Citizen (excerpt)

Don’t be led to believe for one moment that Washington Mardi Gras is a must for locals to make their case, or cases, to convince members of Congress and their staffs not to forgot about project A or project B or whatever here on the home front. No, Washington Mardi Gras is the most popular three-day party in our nation’s capital. Very little real business is conducted, except when a member of the media is invited to report how hard your elected officials and the folks at the chamber are working. On your behalf, of course.

To the surprise of a few people, officials from Monroe—all of northeast Louisiana for that matter—acknowledged that they were not given any “promises” on whether any of the projects of local concern would be funded in the 110th Congress. For public officials to say they weren’t given any assurances in a trip to D.C. that federal funding was forthcoming was not a good sign for northeast Louisiana. More pointed, that’s a bad sign; it most likely means officials from our area were given the cold shoulder when the groveling commenced to convince anyone who would listen that project A or project B or whatever was in the people’s best interest to be completed as soon as possible.

That brings us back to (Senator Mary) Landrieu.

Landrieu, though, must lead the charge, whether you like it or not, in convincing her colleagues in the Democratic Party that Louisiana is in serious jeopardy of becoming a backwater state forever.

The changing of the guard, so to speak, in the Congress is all the more reason to bring Bobby Jindal home and utilize his talents in the governor’s office.