By rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline, President Obama did more than just pander to environmentalists. He shredded attempts by his handlers to cast him as a pragmatic and reasonable man who can appeal to independent voters.
Instead, he stands naked as an ideologue willing to sacrifice workers on the altar of special-interest politics.
Thousands of jobs were cast aside with no more thought than yesterday’s socks. Demolished, too, is the promised commitment to energy independence.
The $7 billion pipeline would carry Canadian oil to Gulf Coast ports. Despite three years of study by the State Department, Obama tried to put off the decision until after the election.
But Canada offered to change the route to avoid an aquifer in Nebraska, and unions demanded to know whether he would approve a permit, so Republicans put a 60-day deadline in December’s payroll-tax legislation.
Now we have undeniable proof of the president’s priorities. The man who insisted that “making sure jobs are available is the first thing I think about when I wake up every morning” was just reading empty words from a TelePrompter.
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Yup, this president could care less about creating jobs and having a robust economy.
ReplyDeleteIt's incredible that with the economic boom this pipeline would have created he chose not to sign off on it.
Wow!
And who is surprised by this???
ReplyDeleteHerd something interesting on this yesterday. The railway company currently hauling this oil to it's destination in the U.S is owned by none other than Warren Buffett. I guess that pipeline might cost him a little campaigne money. Or maybe he is just holding up until it's a little closer to election time so he can be a hero and save us all from big oil.
ReplyDeleteI hope the Republican candidates can stop bickering between themselves and bad mouthing each other.If they don't or can't address the real problems Obama might get re elected anyway.
ReplyDeleteIf OBama is re-elected you can say goodbye to life as we know it in this country.
ReplyDelete.If they don't or can't address the real problems Obama might get re elected anyway.
ReplyDeleteJanuary 26, 2012 4:27 PM
Of course he is going to be re-elected. He has no real competition.
The new DIebolt voting machine system has aleardy been proven to be corrupt..They have shoved this Moron(Cia Muslim plant with 25 SSN numbers and no valid birth certicate) down our thorats and all of the house and senate are accomplices in the destruction of this once great nation....nothing to see here keep moving you are getting sleepy sleepy sleepy. Perot and now Cain were our only hope but we see what happens when a solid american runs for office...All candiadtes both party are fully corrupted and cant be trusted anymore...
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