If there is one U.S. senator who, time and again, has stood for justice and against nonsensicalness and moral corruptness, it's Mary Landrieu of Louisiana. She identified rampant nonsensicalness in the 2007 immigration-reform bill, so, along with just seven other Democrats, she voted to kill it. Then she saw the potential bankruptness in the so-called public option--instead pushing for a "private market-based approach"--and joined a small chorus of Democrats who helped ensure its absence from the final health-care bill. And most recently she moved to combat the president's distressingly insufficient pro-oilness by holding up the appointment of Jacob Lew to head the Office of Management and Budget until the administration lifted the moratorium on off-shore drilling. This is the same Louisiana senator who, two weeks after BP's oil started flowing, offered her own gusher: "I think this industry has very tight regulations and good regulations."So who could be surprised to see Landrieu courageously decry Obama's proposed compromise on the Bush tax cuts as "morally corrupt"?

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