Jay Carney reveals Republicans are to blame for Obama killing Keystone XL Pipeline
By Andrew Malcolm
Investor's Business Daily
February 22, 2012
According to President Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, his boss sounds like nothing but a hapless, helpless bureaucrat bounced around by partisan winds blowing down from Capitol Hill. Poor fellow.
In yet another revealing exchange Tuesday with ABC News' intrepid Jake Tapper, Carney placed responsibility for the vast Keystone XL pipeline's death squarely on conniving Republicans forcing the Democrat to kill it because he was so determined to do things the right way, but after the November election.
It was the initial accidental admission by an administration spokesman that there was something other than credit to be assessed for Obama's torpedoing the job-creating pipeline from Alberta, Canada to Texas to carry 700,000 barrels of reliable crude oil per day to American refineries from the United States' largest, most reliable and friendliest trading partner, enhancing energy security and keeping billions of dollars a year from flowing to unfriendly regimes in sandy, hot places across the dangerous, environmentally-sensitive seas.
Unless reversed soon by, say, a presidential administration of a different political flavor, Canada will begin building a shorter pipeline to its Pacific coast to sell the oil to Asia, namely China.
Last fall Obama's State Department claimed it needed additional time to review the long-existing plans and routes, something like, oh, maybe 13 months or so. Oh, look! Such a timetable would take the decision time past the Nov. 6 presidential election, when the Chicagoan needs the vote of every swamp-loving, flammable electric car-driving environmentalist. If he wins in November, then Obama doesn't need anybody ever again to do whatever he wants.
Congressional Republicans, however, have this crazy idea that such an immense construction project would create thousands of new jobs at a time of high unemployment and would guarantee long-term access to a huge, secure energy source coming from a country almost unanimously deemed America's best friend, according to a new poll we described here.
So Republicans wrote into other legislation that the president needed to decide this winter, which he did. And the answer was: Canada can go shovel it. ...
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