Any lawyer can tell you: Never ask a question unless you know the answer. That admonition would have spared Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu a severe bout of foot-in-mouth disease on Day 1 of her runoff election for U.S. Senator against Republican challenger Bill Cassidy.
Posing for a photo op in front of the construction site front of a VA hospital in New Orleans that was destroyed during Hurricane Kartina, Landrieu asked:
When this hospital needed a champion to build and rebuild, literally out of the rubble of Katrina and Rita, … where was Bill?
In the video that follows, Landrieu trumpets her own record, referring to herself in the third person, while damning Cassidy as “wishy-washy, unreliable, undependable, not sure who he is, not sure who he was, and not sure who he wants to be.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgmrRup5JDo
It would have made for great optics and might have helped her in a runoff pundits are predicting she will lose if Cassidy hadn’t tweeted back an answer to her question:
Mary Landrieu wants to know where I was during Hurricane Katrina? Setting up a surge hospital for refugees. #LASEN http://t.co/YUVH0HKUc5
— Bill Cassidy (@BillCassidy) November 6, 2014
The link in his Twitter message is to an article in Money magazine which reveals that at the time of Katrina, he was a medical doctor working in Baton Rogue. After the storm hit, Cassidy took it upon himself to set up a makeshift emergency hospital in an abandoned K-Mart to administer first aid and care for victims.
Back to you, Sen. Landrieu. Next question?
(h/t Daily Caller)
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