Heading south: Sarah Palin travels to Louisiana this weekend to rally with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Bill Cassidy, as tea party backers line up for the GOP congressman in hopes of defeating Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu. Palin, the former Alaska governor and tea party favorite, will attend a Cassidy rally Saturday afternoon in Monroe, seeking to keep Republican voter enthusiasm high for the Dec. 6 runoff. The Associated Press reports the event will also feature the patriarch of TV’s Duck Dynasty family, Phil Robertson, as well as Rob Maness, who finished third in the primary behind Cassidy and Landrieu and had the support of many tea party voters.
Power players? Underlying the political battle between Landrieu and Cassidy over the Keystone XL pipeline is a years-long debate about whether Congress has the legal power to approve a project whose review was vested to the U.S. State Department in an executive order first signed by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly half a century ago. The Wall Street Journal reports it probably does, but adds you can expect to see a number of lawsuits filed over Congressional approval of the pipeline, if it in fact gets approval. Read the full story.
Face to face: NBC has announced that Gov. Bobby Jindal will sit down with Chuck Todd for an exclusive interview on Meet the Press Sunday. “Just one day after open enrollment begins for the second time under the health care law, we’ll discuss his decision not to expand Medicaid in the state,” says the show’s website. “Plus, we’ll ask the governor about the politics of the Keystone XL pipeline and about the steps President Barack Obama will reportedly take to allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States. And, of course, we’ll ask about his 2016 ambitions.” The show airs from 8 to 9 a.m. Sunday on NBC.
