Rachel Maddow Rips Democrats On Keystone XL Vote

Rachel Maddow tore in to Senate Democrats on Tuesday for voting down the Keystone Pipeline (or Keystone XL), a Republican energy plan.

Maddow, an anchor for the left-leaning MSNBC, couldn’t believe that Democrats would use what little time they have left as the majority party to waste time on Keystone when Republicans will simply pass it in January anyway.

She believed that Democrats made the decision to vote in order to try and save Senator Mary Landrieu’s job.

Landrieu wanted the Pipeline and she’s coming up on a runoff that she is expected to lose against the man who helped sponsor the Keystone XL bill that passed a House of Representatives vote earlier this week.

“What on earth were they thinking,” an exasperated Rachel Maddow asked, “spending their time doing this? How is this even, conceivably, by any stretch of the imagination, a constructive use of time by Democrats?”

Maddow said the vote succeeded only in “highlighting something the Republicans want highlighted” and “showing that the Democrats can’t get anything done even to save one of their own.”

Maddow said that the “most frustrating of all” was that “the Democrats will hold a vote on this issue right away, but want to wait a while to hold a vote on confirming Loretta Lynch as the new attorney general.”

“If they’re honestly not worried about Republicans confirming her, I would love some of what they’re smoking,” Maddow said, adding “Democrats, you are amazing… You are astonishing. Now roll over and play dead.”

You can watch the full video from Tuesday’s episode of Rachel Maddow at this link.

This definitely hasn’t been the liberal commentator’s year. On November 5 — the Wednesday after Election Night — Maddow was visibly shaken by the deep losses within the Democratic party.

Prior to that, she criticized a Fox News program without having watched it, not realizing that the program host, Stuart Varney, was agreeing with her position on the cost of gasoline.

Naturally, the right-leaning Fox had a field day exploiting that.

Furthermore, MSNBC, of which Maddow is the biggest star, has consistently ranked at the bottom of the cable news networks and even underperformed during the election season. Maddow herself posted the lowest quarterly ratings results ever, according to the New York Times.

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