Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu concede that they’re not likely to run again.

In time honored fashion: that is, Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu have both joined DC lobbying firms.  Pryor is still kind of half-pretending that he might try to run, again: Landrieu has done everything except throw a grenade into the room just behind her and then secured the blast door.  All part of the Beltway Circle of Life, and it’s really nice work if you can get it.  Meanwhile, I hustle for Amazon referral money; so who’s really coming out ahead here, hey*?

Via @baseballcrank, who is making a larger point that I feel no urgent need to either endorse or condemn.

Moe Lane

*This isn’t nearly as bitter as it sounds. I’m mostly just reminding myself that even though I’m smarter than either one of those two, they’re the rich ones.  Good for my perspective, that is.

7 thoughts on “Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu concede that they’re not likely to run again.”

    1. Basically: many bloggers put up Amazon links on their sites. People who click through those links and then buy something (which doesn’t have to be the specific item being linked to) will cause that blogger to get a cut of the proceeds.

  1. I’m mostly just reminding myself that even though I’m smarter than either one of those two, they’re the rich ones.
     
    But would either of them have been elected to anything if they hadn’t had lots of money and lots of connections in the first place?

  2. “If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at who He gives it to.”

    1. Dayum.
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      That’s .. that’s gonna leave *lots* of marks ..
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      I am so stealing this ..
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      Mew

  3. “I’m mostly just reminding myself that even though I’m smarter than either one of those two, they’re the rich ones. Good for my perspective, that is.”

    Good for your soul, you mean. The belief in an afterlife full of Justice did have a mellowing effect on the behavior of a lot of people. A lot of rationalization was needed otherwise, and that takes a lot of work.

  4. We crawled over broken glass to vote against Pryor. We were going to be out of the country, so we voted absentee for Cotton. The time before that we voted against Blanche Lincoln. Whoo-hoo, in 2 election cycles we replaced both our Democrat Senators with Repubs.

    The previous election, we would have voted for Cotton for the House but he wasn’t in our district.

    A few weeks before the election I got a (human, not robocall) phone call asking us to vote for Pryor. I told him, “Nope, we are voting for Cotton, and I’d vote for whoever ran against Pryor no matter who they were.” Big gulp, the he said “Yeah, I’m getting a lot of people saying that.”

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