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Obama threatened Congress not to attach the Keystone pipeline deal to the tax-cut extension yesterday.
Wait a minute.....hasn't Obama and the rest of the Democrats been telling the Republicans to drop the cuts in every private negotiation since the debt-ceiling crisis?
Of course he will veto any tax cut that's linked to the Keystone Pipeline, he doesn't want to be forced to make any kind of executive decision that would cost him votes. He needs all the supporters he can, at this point, and splitting the vote of those that would support him is not an option (it's 100% political).
I heard the speech he delivered with the Canadian Prime Minister, and his excuse is that it's simply going to take time (well over a year mind you) to be sure all the safety measures are in place that no possibility of an envirnomental threat would exist before making a decision. Excuse me? Is this Keystone pipeline some kind of NEW technology that it requires over a YEAR to finally formulate a decision? Perhaps he should have taken the same amount of time before pushing his GREEN initive with companies like Solyndra, or trying to find a way to force the sale of the Chevy Volt onto a market that's not ready to go out and empty the lots over that kind of price tag technology. Why else is the Federal Government willing to take on a hit of further Government Debt just to subsidize a product consumers aren't confident is even safe?
Part of the problem with these treehugger types is any time we do anything they insist on finding out what the environmental impact will be.
Expensive and time consuming.
Yeah because people dying and the environment getting fucked is of no concern to you folks. As well as making sure that it is Americans working on the project and making sure that private property is respected.