Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is taking aim at National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn for “below-the-belt” comments made by an aide in a Louisiana newspaper.

In a Dec. 17 piece in The News Star of Monroe, La., the NRSC is quoted as saying Landrieu “allowed herself to be ‘bribed’ into supporting the health care bill.”

NRSC spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson Marchand added in the story that the bill would increase taxes for Landrieu’s constituents.

Those comments are “patently false” and “so disrespectful,” Landrieu told POLITICO in an interview Thursday evening.

“It doesn’t really matter to me what Rush Limbaugh says. Or, you know, any of the other entertainers out there,” Landrieu said. “It does matter to me what colleagues say. And John Cornyn is the head of that committee.”