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The president sent a clear warning to the Republicans in Congress today not to tie any “extraneous issues” to the extension of the payroll-tax cut or unemployment insurance when it comes up for a vote.
During an appearance with Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, President Obama said that if the House Republicans tried to accelerate the Keystone XL Pipeline project by inserting it into a bill to extend the payroll-tax cut he would “reject it.”
Speaker John Boehner's office responded quickly to the threat. “We are working on a bill to stop a tax hike, protect Social Security, reform unemployment insurance, and create jobs," the speaker's office said in a statement. "If President Obama threatens to veto it over a provision that creates American jobs, that’s a fight we’re ready to have.”
The president and the prime minister met today and discussed several issues, including the pipeline. Final approval of the project was postponed by the State Department last month. Some Republicans have alleged the administration is playing politics with the sensitive issue, but the president said the State Department is making sure the pipelines impact on health and the environment is “properly understood.”
Obama said he expects Congress to have “enough sense” to do the “people’s business” and not play politics with the payroll-tax cut extension.
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The president said the State Department is making sure the pipelines impact on health and the environment is “properly understood.”
Properly understood, alright! This was a pure political move by Obama to his nutcase Left, well represented here, to delay the pieline , which loses 20,000 real American jobs in the private sector.....known to moonbats as the "dreaded private sector".
Do you have even the slightest idea of why the delay is being encouraged, Bob?
Any idea at all??
Oh, and Bob- If unemployment numbers stay low, it is NOT good for Obama, right?
Now, tell us what's in it for him to lose 20,000 real American jobs in the private sector on purpose.
Moonbats? Really??
DBO, if you think that delaying the pipeline wasn't a play to the environmental wacko's on his base, you are delusional.
If he is elected, he will immediately give this plan the green light.
Aquafiers my Aunt Fanny. They have run every possible route for this thing and setteled on the best one.
And now the GOP has backed him into a corner.
Go ahead Obama, veto a tax cut and job creation bill right before Christmas. Ought to make for a fun vacation.
Drive-By,
On the employment future of Keystone Pipeline for the U.S:
Despite Transcanada making much of 'lots of union jobs', the Independent Cornell Global Labor Institute says the pipeline will produce:
"between 50 and 1400 temporary construction jobs....The operating costs for KXL are very minimal and based on the figures provided by TransCanada for the Canadian section of the pipeline,
the new permanent US pipeline jobs in the US as few as 50".
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/11/04/362056/fact-check-keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline-isnt-a-job-creator/
btw, What we all know is that it will make a lot of money for the oil companies.
DBO, they do not know the answer. I do. Shall we keep them guessing?
WCA- slightly off track here, but- How the hell does not wanting to gamble on an aquifer the size of Nebraska becoming polluted make some folks 'whackos'?
"Go ahead Obama, veto a tax cut and job creation bill right before Christmas."
Exactly. And NOW who's "playing political games"? Obama? Boehner??
As Fox likes to say- YOU DECIDE.
DBO, there ar epipelines running all over this country. Thousands of miles of them.
Do you or don't you agree that Obama would green light this project if he is elected? They did not just start studying this now. They won't learn anything new in a year.
What do you expect Boehner to do? If Obama is going to campaign instead of govern, he has left the GOP no choice.
Obama would have a better chance of being re-elected if he could just show America he could lead instead of campaign and speechify.
Go O!! Whack it to em with that big stick!!! (to use the T.Roosevelt jargon)
WCA, what party does the governor of Nebraska belong to? He was the one who wanted the pipeline delayed. Send your complaints to him.
Hmmmm............Nebraska is one of those red states, more like scarlet! In Pennsylvania, the gas wells threaten to pollute the water supply to a number of states. They aren't paying state taxes at a time when teachers, firefighters and cops are being laid off. If Obama smells a rat here, he should not and will not give in to conservatives. I would gladly give up my 900 bucks to save wildlife and provide my kids with safe drinking water.
Governor Dave Heineman (R) of Nebraska and Senator Mike Johanns (R) of Nebraska are opposed to Keystone XL at this time. Are you suggesting they are "environmental wackos" in President Obama's base?
Tell Aunt Fanny I said "Hi!"
Is the route for Keystone XL the best route? Senator Johanns has his concerns. If you don't believe me, you might check his web site...
As for Governor Heineman, are you aware that he signed 2 new laws on November 22? Yup, it seems the Governor has exercised a little "States Rights" in this matter. The first law gives power to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality to conduct its own environmental impact studies. The second law gives power to the Nebraska Public Service Commission to hold hearings on any future projects.
Phinephancy,
Why do we as liberals even bother to protect those Nebraska Republicans from themselves? If getting to that black gold is so important, and the Republican heartland wants to be despoiled, maybe Obama should just let them wallow in the muck. W.'s hometown of Midland, Texas supposedly has the worst air quality in the nation, but they still love the oil industry. The governor in Nebraska is probably worried about some powerful farmers and ranchers there. In that particular state, they probably are as big of a political force as Exxon/Mobile. But helping the heartland protect their natural resources is like telling the Teabaggers that make $35,000 a year that the federal income tax tables are NOT their problem. They don't get it and never will.
As we all fully know and expect, the unhonorable phony republicans will do something phony and unhonorable to screw up any legislation that will benefit the country at this time. One thing about unhonorable people: predictable.
The TPGOP will, of course stuff something in that is a deal breaker - let them, just another reason to vote them out - as an independent voter I have never had such disdain for a party before. They have been nothing but a disservice to our country since Obama took office. They are going to get thier ass handed to them again in this election.
The instincts of Obama, the dictator, have already kicked-in. He wants what he wants, when he wants it and how he wants it. Never mind that it is the responsibility of Congress to pass the laws of this country and the President's job, as Chief Executive, is to see to it that those laws are carried out.
Before the pipeline was put in motion, environmental issues had ALREADY BEEN CLEARLY STUDIED and the path had been approved.
Obama is obsessed with HIS POWER and rejects any limitations on his power within the framework of our Constitution.
You Teapublicans want to see leading? You're going to see a few vetoes if you keep pushing the envelope with your @#$%&! machinations and obstructionism. President Obama, keep using the bully pulpit and signings and veto power!
jim-1455434 -- It's not about positions on the pipeline, or any other issue, but about a clean bill and a clear vote for the record.
The "science" isn't settled yet...
Gee...the oil companies estimate 20,000 new jobs; the environmentalists estimate 50. Seems like a discrepancy of sorts. How have the Job Creators done since last December, when the Bush tax cuts were extended for them? Maybe that would be a good indication of who to believe?
The GOP is playing three card monte with the pipeline on behalf of the oil companies. Oil must be a big deal for Republican legislators because integrity certainly isn't.
Its almost impossible to install any oil pipe of any size, anywhere that doesn't leak somewhere. Why not build new refineries in Montana and tell texas to stick it?
End Depletion allowances until the price of gas is maintained below $2 a gallon!
Oh, mean ol' nasty Obama! How dare he exercise power!
By the way, the pipeline was NEVER given ANY kind of full approval. The Environment Impact Study required by Executive Order 13337 (signed by President Bush in April 2004) was not issued until August 26, 2011. It is part of the process and it is not done before the process begins.
Here...rather than bore you with details perhaps you should review this...
@ "TruePatriot" #1.17,
Who in the hell are you kidding ? Obama has never been concerned with a "clean bill", he is concerned with politics and maintaining HIS POWER to the max !
Take a look at Obamacare .... filled with pork, bribes, kickbacks.... the Louisiana purchase of Mary Landrieu, the "no federal funds for abortion" lie that stupid Stupak bought into, the "Cornhusker kickback" where Ben Nelson sold his vote for Nebraska to be "exempt" from certain provisions.
Then, of course, that abominable bill including putting the Federal Government in charge of student loans. What in the hell did student loans have to do with a "clean bill" ? Was this included to "buy" another vote from someone ??
No, you'll have to do a much better job at selling the "clean bill" ..... and you will have to sell it to a gullible liberal. The history of Obama's reign does not match the ideology of your statement.
There are thousands upon thousands of miles of oil and gas pipelines all over this country. So now they don't know how to build them so they will leak? Leaks are extremely rare and easily fixed where they will be placed.
Veto threat is a 100% play to the base for votes.
Sounds like Jim has some personal problems. Apparently he can read the president's mind. Just adjust that tin foil hat a little better there Jimmy, it will be OK.
Sounds like WE dont need this pipeline at all . Unless your in the oil industry .
Call Boehner's 'hand', Mr President.
The American People are about as awake as they are going to be right now, and will be paying attention.
DBO, he will cave.
He always caves.
Obama in that White House - Home Alone for Christmas.
He'll be chain smoking down in the game room while trying to improve his bowling score. Ordering up porn on DirectTv. Playing with his army guys in the War Room. And when its time for him to fly off to Hawaii he'll tell his aides: "I don't know how to pack a suit case. I've never done this once in my whole life."
The pipe line has been likened to a very fat woman vowing to go on a diet but first she has to build an $100,000 dollar pie room.
Never mind that places where they have been fracking now can light their drinking water on fire. In a republican brain killing the earth and its inhabitants is worth the money going to their oil friends and a few jobs. I find it funny the republicans worry about the deficit we will leave our grand-kids, but don't seem to worry about the condition of the planet we will leave them.
The closest maybe planet to move too after we kill this one is only 200,000 years of travel away.
JoJo, you remind me of someone without a single vice ... dull and constantly unhappy.
I think Sniffy is talking about herself!
I think Sniffy is talking about herself
She may be Feisty......I saw that post, and it was to ridiculous to warrant comment.
I always think back to candidate Obama and even now President Obama and how he lets the nasty comments just roll off....it doesn't stick.
Don't award bad behavior with acknowledgement.
Just sayin'
But chilled - sometimes I can't resist poking her with a stick...
Problem is she enjoys it too much! ;o)
I'll try to be on better behavior...
Feisty and Chilled,
I have observed that JA1 posts become more crude and virulent as the day goes on. Makes me wonder...
Stay with it Feisty!...I do understand and you're so good at it.
The off-the-wall posts by JAS1 can probably be directly tied to how her day is going. She seems really unhappy all the time, NorthstarDFL.
All she knows is be as unreasonable and idiotic as possible! Nice......
Sad thing is, it comes to naturally for her! ;o)
What's even more SAD is that the "liberal" comments from #2.4 through #2.10 have absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARTICLE ..... just the usual little high school girly comments, snipping and sniping at another's posts ...... all because they are intolerant of opinions different from their own.
You kind of remind me of the movie "Mean Girls".
Let's see, Obama "bundles" tax increses on "the rich" as part of his class warfare strategy along with the extension of the "payroll tax cuts", bundling the negative with "the good" .... and that is okay with you.
Republicans bundle a plan to move the pipeline forward along with an extension of the "payroll tax cuts" and you apparently abhor such a concept.
What happened to "COMPROMISE" you Dems were always wagging your tongues about ??? Oh, I forgot, "compromise" to you Dems is the behind closed doors negotiations where the Dems were compromising with the Dems to do anything .... anything at all.... to ram through Obamacare, at ALL costs.
The only thing those Democrats really did was COMPROMISE THEIR INTEGRITY ..... and that is why somany were booted out in the elections of November, 2010.
I see Jimmy's back playing First Read police...
I'm sorry little Jimmy - but who died and left you the BOSS?
You don't like it here - get LOST!
[I have observed that JA1 posts become more crude and virulent as the day goes on.]
Frustration will do that to a person...just take a gander at NoJo's and Spanky's posts lately...YIKES! Talk about frustrated, pent up agression!
Yeah the Repubs are experts at tying bills that would never pass a straight vote to bills that "must pass." The last best example I can think of was ANWAR, which I think VP Cheney had to vote.
Pretty funny, Jimbo....JoAnna's comment was completely irrelevant and you fail to admonish HER for it. You do realize that when you defend an idiot, it makes you apppear like an idiot?
Just where has Boehner and any and all Republicans tried to create job 1? And don't say the pipeline because it's wrought with controversy as to it's actual value to America.
I call bullsh** on Speaker Boehner, and the rest of the GOP. They are always saying that it isn't the role of government to create jobs.. so what's wrong with this picture?
“We are working on a bill to stop a tax hike, protect Social Security, reform unemployment insurance, and create jobs," the speaker's office said in a statement. "
and anything else we can stuff into it to make sure it goes down cuz we ain't givin' no money to the Middle Class. It just ain't natural if money doesn't flow uphill.
idelogyspoilstheview
Bravo for hitting the nail right on the head
Since when is the government supposed to give money out at all? To the middle class? I knew it! Liberals are encouraging socialism and this line proves it!!
Sheesh Brianb, you know I am referring to the payroll tax cut. Guess what, up here in the Great White North we have a single payer medicare system and we are not socialists. The continuous misuse of that word is tiresome and only misleading to people who 'think' like you.
Yes while the 1% are going to get about $66K+ for the Bush tax cuts, the average American brings home only $54K+............hmmmmmmm?
Boehner and his ilk can pound salt and I hope FOR ONCE the President does what he says.
Nice distortion.
The "Bush tax cuts", which Obama extended provided tax relief for ALL LEVELS OF TAXATION and the taxpayers with larger AGI's had their exemptions "phased-out" as their income levels rose. Since the highest tax rate was reduced from 39.6% to 35%, what you are really saying is that the highest taxpayers were averaging paying $1,434 783 in taxes ($66,000 as you claim, divided by the 4.6% reduction). And you libbies will decry "they're not paying their FAIR SHARE" !!!!!!
Of course, the Bush Tax Cuts did not provide tax relief for the 47% of U.S. who pay no taxes .... you simply cannot go below zero, except for the Earned Income Credit.
Nice attempt at CLASS WARFARE, but the payroll tax cut reduction passed last year was only intended for one year and that is how it should stay. This is not the time to play "political candy" with the Social Security Trust Fund. My payroll taxes may return to NORMAL, but I would prefer to receive my social security payments, which I have paid into for many years, than have it go "DRY" because Obama wanted to use it for his re-election campaign.
Stop the spin Jim.
"All levels?" Certainly not in a fair and equitable manner; everyone knows the wealthy benefit more from it.
You guys rant about the amount of taxes the wealthy pay in ("...already pay 78% of what the government gets while 50% don't even pay taxes...", etc.) But you try to apply a different standard to the cuts/deductions, ("...all levels benefit...) Apply your argument eqally to both issues and stop attempting to spew misinformation and spin. One or the other, NOT both ways.
NO MORE OF YOUR REPUBLICAN DOUBLE STANDARDS!!!! Fairness for all!
Might should check out this article about the President's plans (that all you RWNJ's refuse to recognize and continue to rant about "he hasn't provided leadership" or "he hasn't done anything to fix the economy or create jobs, etc.) This link proves your position to be WRONG! YOU are the ones preventing both jobs and economic improvement, and the whole world sees it. Read the story:
http: / /nationalmemo.com/content/obamas-new-square-deal
then get with the program and stop your greedy, partisan class warfare.
The pipeline would create thousands of middle class jobs, but evidently our current president prefers to send those jobs to our good friends in China.
GbA:
Not thousands of US jobs. The vast majority of the jobs are already filled by Canadian unions, and the only US jobs will number in the hundreds - not thousands. The president knows this.
He also knows the republican run State of Nebraska is behind the stoppage.
Educate yourself. Seek other news sources to match against your current sources and try to decypher the truth that is buried somewhere in between. Turn off the Blaze and Rush Limbaugh - they are hate mongers only interested in ratings - they are not reliable news sources.
Did you just ask GBA to educate himself? How will he be able to spout his bizarre fantasies if he does that?
Based on what evidence?
Good question...
certainly NOT their (Congress') record nor recent history....
Looks to me like the fact is that this Congress, particularly the House, has NO sense - only greedy partisanship and the RNC "I, Me, MINE!" philosophy.
Sad.
After 11 months, now the Weeper wants to 'create jobs'...that is a cruel joke!
President Obama DO NOT take the bait......stand firm...reject....veto........
"Bonehead Boehner" must have a severe Cognitive Disability! His "Hoodlum's On The Hill" had already voted to destroy Social Security. "Crazy Cantor's Cronies" did nothing to protect Social Security. The GOP Lobbyists have no economic intentions of reforming Unemployment Insurance. They have poltical plans to destroy Unemployment Insurance. For the GOP Lobbyists believe that this is Socialism or Marxism. "Bonehead Boehner" has done nothing to create jobs, but he will vote down the President's Jobs Bill. "Bonehead Boehner" has no intention of helping the Middle Class, the Working Poor, the elderly, and the disabled. There is no way that the GOP Lobbyists would ever go against their "Tax Master." Yes America! It is "Goofy Grover" and his "Tactless" Tax Pledge. The GOP Lobbyists are fighting to have NO new taxes for the top 1% at all costs. Now new taxes for the Middle Class are always on the GOP Economic table. What a joke America!
That's right White Collar
He will fold like a cheap lawn chair... happens every time!!
He wants to fashion his campaign around "helping the middle class"... Thanks to his "leadership" and I use the word "leadership" loosely... there won't be a middle class much longer!!
Phine: why don't you put down the bottle and tell us what your daily lib's r us memo says on the subject!!
Why put the bottle down Maxx - we tend to do more celebrating now because you and your cronies are handing Obama the election on a sliver platter. You are all so high and mighty and arrogant while your candidates make fools out of each and every one of you. Ahhhhhh 2012 will be a good year.
Funny, I heard the same drivel around October, 2010. Obama is floundering in the polls, his approval rating is at or near its lowest level, and you libbies are declaring victory ! LOL !!
A mind truly is a terrible thing to waste.
Here's another reason to despise the poser-in-chief. The reasons will be a tsunami by the time November of 2012 rolls around. The only support he will have will be the brain dead drones here on FR.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/06/military-growing-terrorist-target-lawmakers-warn/
You seem to lead a rich fantasy life, Doug. I bet you are smart and handsome in your dreams, too, aren't you?
LoLoL DougPoundsIt posts a link to...Fox "news"...
Silly Teabagger...Don't you know Fox "news" lies?
Mickey,
I'm sure there are many, but give me 10 things Fox News has lied about:__________________
Yeah it's funny that anyone would think a link to fox news is a credible source, but then these republicans still think they have a party. Silly GOP go home to one of your six houses, we don't need you anymore.
Sailcat,
I bet you dream of being faced by the Big O. Got anything to say about the Big O administration classifying the terrorist attack at Fort Hood as "work place violence" and the implications of doing such? Or do you need to spit first....no, I'm sure you swallowed.
Joe Demarco.....going thru life as a liberal idiot drone will get you nowhere. It must be your position that your savior didn't do what the story indicated. The facts are he did. But please drone, show me he didn't.
Says little Dougie, who not only swallows but asked for MORE without the benefit of a tissue!
C'mon everybody! Let's all give Dougie a round of applause! His hilarious reaction to a simple comment is yet another example of his unbalanced personality and it also helps to explain exactly why he is generally ignored by all normal people and respected by none of them.
Well done, Doug!
President Obama is always issuing warnings and never carries them out. He will cave again, and believe he has only issued two vetoes in his first term so far. If Obama was a leader, as the left claims, he would have the leaders of the House and Senate sit down with him and work out a plan that both sides could like and dislike. It's called compromise and leading. But then Obama has no leadership ability because his ego gets in his way.
That is the definition of insanity. To sit down with The NOrquistm, Abramoff, Koch, Owned Republican Congress. GET a CLUE. VETO VETO VETO VETO
Obama is now the "Obstructionist in Chief" -- threatens to veto something that has yet to be written. Not exactly a leadership quality.
You haven't been paying attention at all have you? These jokers can't compromise when the country's economy is on the line. Do you really think they can work out a compromise on this?? Really?
Republicans are such a bunch of Slime Oil Lovers, How are you going to drink Oil, If they destroy one of our most valuable resources. Do you know how valuable clean water is in Countries that don't have it. Democrat is the Part of the Working Class People. Also the guardians of the earth. Clean Water is so much more valuable then Oil. Unless you are a Oil Company. And the Oil is not even staying in the USA. THEY ARE OUT SOURCING THE OIL.
NORTH DAKOTA...4% unemployment.
China wants our cheap BTU oil. We want to throw mass money to so-called efficient green solutions in order to make them 'look' efficient. Wind and solar will never make up over 2% of this nations energy. Wind loses 50% of it's energy before it ever hits the grid. Coal only loses 25% of it's power.
We wil kill our country if we listen to the idiot green loving false bad math lovers. The have no solution but do enjoy energy.
Say SUZ....did you know this technology has been around for 30 years? did you know you can drink the water used in the fracking process? 99% water, 1% goes into soda water.
did you have anythiing else?
Since when is 1,000 jobs a big thing to Boner? He called recess not handling the FAA and put thousands of Americans out of jobs. Pipe it to North Dakota. That is a solution. Why all across the USA to stinking burned out Texas.
Republicans don't realize the Midwest sits on the largest super volcano in the world. It is a molten cauldron under the surface. President Obama is doing the right thing by investigating this pipeline further, the Republicans are trying to push it through for their special interest Lobbyist that is always their agenda.
suz
so you are just going to sit there and let millions of people die..and are only worried about the pipeline?
you must be kidding.
suz,
So i'd like to here what your solution is to America's energy policy. Wind power is not the answer, neither is solar. Ever here of a BTU? How's the Chevy Volt working for you at $32000 with tax payer credit and not it doesn't work period.
America needs cheap energy and save energy. Fossil fuels provides that solution and will keep $1.5 billion from going out to the middle east on daily basis while employing thousands.
Would you be willing to live without lights and electricity? Love ideologues with zero solutions. You know green energy is a farce and bad math.
I think if that when that super volcano erupts, the broken pipeline will be the last thing we have to worry about. The devastation will be massive to the North American Continent not to mention the global cooling which will occur when the sun gets blocks out for a year or two.
Obama said he expects Congress to have “enough sense” to do the “people’s business” and not play politics with the payroll-tax cut extension.
Really??!? You know he's just saying that at this point. He knows full well that all congress does is play politics. That's why we have to vote every last one of those bums out in Nov.
It was funny to see the prime minister just say: "No comment." on the pipeline debacle...he knows Obama is playing games..
How much longer do we have to listen to this clown, Obama? I'll call I'm president when a) we see 25 documents on who he really is and 2) when he actually works 3) doesn't play 84 rounds of golf 4) has class.
Question: If Obama is about jobs, how would he know what one looked like? Look at his attendance records in Ilinois as senator. It rivals his attendance in white house as make-shift president.
Fight for middle class? He doesn't know what work looks like....goodbye Barry Soterro...your gone 2012.
Buffaloful Do you truly believe the GOP supports the Middle Class? Seriously, they have opened an attack on teachers in Wisconsin, Ohio and Idaho. They are truly about destroy the Middle Class. How can you not see that?
Joe DeMarco-3284896
The middle class is ceter right = the GOP.
"The middle class is ceter right = the GOP."
If I can understand your message despite your poor spelling, your comment is inaccurate. America's middle class is broadly moderate, a large subset of the population whom the GOP has completely abandoned in its haste to cultivate the support of the right wing lunatic fringe, a group you exemplify quite nicely, Texas.
SAILCAT,
Sorry to confuse you with my misspelled word; I'M glad you could figure it out.
I really don't see how you could deny that the American people have pretty much rejected the current liberal agenda and the "shellacking" Obama is gonna get in 2012. I also don't see how you could label me as a right wing lunatic since you know nothing about me.
BTW, so you don't get confused; shellacking means getting your ass kicked.
links to your trash beefalo /?
i gotta go now its late. Guess who has more experience being President of These United States than ANY pubelicker....ahhh his name is OBAMA
The State of Nebraska is not behind the proposed route of this pipeline, which will bring 7000 jobs to their state alone. It is not the Democrats, its the citizens of that state who do not wish to suffer potential environmental loss, so the State Department, wisely has asked for additional routes to bypass their great aquafier and state environmental endangered areas. Common sense, but BIG BAD BONER and his Jewish sidekick CANTOR will do anything to stop jobs as long as they can keep the headlines. Remember, they the Republicans are not for any US progress until they can boot the black man from the Oval Office. Despicable, pungently foul smelling degenerates, each and every one of them - full blown cowards. Keep the facts straight BONER. You are the black widow spider in the mix.
Well, there ya go Boehner....even the folks in Nebraska have the Presidents back on this one.....
Obama does not support America or its allies.
oooohhhh he WARNED them! scary man! funny the liberal left wing demos can sneak and
add things in every bill and then lie about it afterwards like the healthcare fiasco and it's okay!
oh this would create jobs and make energy cheaper but he doesn't want that!
Call his hand Mr. President, we have your back on this one. Run em to ground.
According to Barry, the BSer-in-Chief, "We don't need no rotten pipeline."
The noise you hear are Chinese laying a pipeline west across Canada - kiss the oil goodbye and crank up more solar crap.
The President has given fair warning and I for one truly hope he sticks with his attitude and does what he has said he would do without compromise.
This give in give in give in needs to stop. It is to a point where the Secret Santa gift exchange in the House consists of Democrats giving the Republicans gifts and that is it.
If this pipeline goes through - you can kiss the climate goodbye! It will cause extreme flooding in Canada - the environmental damage would be severe.
The oil companies say it will create thousands upon thousands of jobs. It will create a few thousand temporary jobs. After it is built it will only create about 100 permanent jobs max.
The threat to the environment (which the gop/teabaggers care nothing about) far outweighs any measly amount of jobs it will create.
All the repukes care about is how much money it will put into THEIR pockets.
If you think the repukes/teabaggers give a @!$%# about anyone but the haves and the have mores, you are seriously mistaken.
No Mr.Obama we will just continue to buy our oil from America's enimas, your friends Mr.Obama, and continue to pour tax dollars into your "green energy alternatives" and fill your campaign contributors pockets. And since this topic has the attention of you "environmental wackos", maybe just one of you in the room can answer a question I have posted before. Question; I am a child of the 70's and grew up watching the beginning of the whole "enviornmental movement". It began with public service ads on TV, like the one where an old Indian Chief(by the way recently found out the actor was Italian) was standing by a highway, a car drives by and throws out a candy wrapper(littering), the camera pans back to the Chiefs face and a TEAR is running down his cheek. There was another more pertinent public service announcement to this topic, it was about recycling to save energy. According to that ad, we were told that by recycling ONE aluminum can, enough energy would be saved to supply enough energy to light a small city. Where I live we have street people who dig through dumpster, collect cans and pull bags of cans in big plastic bags to recycling centers, everyday. Millions of cans being return, so where is all the SAVED energy? With all those aluminum cans being returned we should have recycled enough cans to power to light millions of small cities, right? Atleast with all that saved power, would you not think your electric bill would go down, mine hasn't has yours? Point being you idiots have been doing all this Captain Planet environmental crap for years, and the planet is still teetering on destruction. Millions of tons of newspaper, glass, tin, plastics being recycled and its not enough. America needs jobs, industry needs energy to run, more energy means more jobs. China is about to surpass America economically, why simple, there are no environmental wackos in China. Quit hugging trees and start hugging your children, and give them the same oppurtunities to get a job asyour grandparents and parents had. Industry has always been the economic engine in this Nation, and industry needs energy to run on. And not some "pie in the sky" green alternatives, that technology is still decades away, industry needs the energy YESTERDAY.
What the heck are you ranting on about Mr. Useyourhead ?????? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
I will write real slw okay Tessy, Obama is blocking the pipe because he is trying to appease his liberal environmentalist base. If Canda cannot get pipe approved in US, they will build a refinery in Canada and sell it to China. Loss of needed energy, loss of jobs and all because liberal recycling believing enviornmental wackos don't want to turn over a single shovel of dirt in case a bug may become extinct. In the mean time we continue to lose jobs. There tessy was that easier to understand???? Go recycle an aluminum can, and save the World..............not
Have conservatives learned nothing from the catastophe in the Gulf? @!$%# happens.. the possibility of environmental disasters is real and the costs are immeasurable. Rolling the dice with the future of our planet is stupid and incredibly short-sighted...
There is risk in everything. Better to take the chance than have to send troops to the middle east to secure our oil.
Mruseurhead
The LIBs don't seem to understand the whole energy issue. No energy/expensive energy means slow economic growth - no jobs. If you buy your oil from the people who don't like us or from unstable parts of the world; sooner or later Troops will have to be sent over to protect our supplies at a huge financial cost and a price in human life. They of course cry about going to war but will do nothing to promote energy independence.
Or you liberals can continue to support any and all moratoriums against trying to get more oil and support on "green" alternatives. Thats worked so far............right????????