Pork no longer buying love for Democrats

Byron York:

If federal dollars could buy a Senate seat, Louisiana's Mary Landrieu would have been celebrating re-election rather than conceding defeat Saturday night.

Much has been written about the national Democratic Party's decision to abandon Landrieu in her runoff against Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy. There's been a lot of talk about Landrieu's futile struggle to distance herself from President Obama. And her lonely role as a disappearing southern Democrat.

But there's been less attention paid to something that was absolutely central to Landrieu's re-election bid: Her effort to shower Louisiana in election-year federal largesse. As polls showed her in a difficult race, Landrieu tossed taxpayer dollars right and left, looking to buy enough support to get herself over the finish line one more time.

Landrieu's fundamental argument for her re-election was that she "delivers" for Louisiana. Everybody knew what that meant. And in case they didn't, month after month, Landrieu's Senate website announced the awarding of new federal grants to her constituents. Here is a selection from just the last six weeks of the campaign....
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It was a long list that did not include he loan forgiveness effort on behalf of communities who got money after Katrina.  None of it was able to overcome the toxic association she had with Obamacare and other liberal Democrat measures she supported.  At some point you can't buy love when you are caught lying about keeping your health care plan.