Obama's Keystone Trick
By Rush Limbaugh
March 21, 2012
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RUSH: Obama and the Keystone pipeline. This is such a neat trick, and this is a great example of how he couldn't pull this off without a totally supportive and in-the-bag media. According to reports, our president, "Baraka" Obama, who doesn't like oil -- is afraid of it, is trying to get rid of it, is trying to wean us off of it -- is going to go to Cushing, Oklahoma, today for a photo-op near the southern leg of the Keystone pipeline that he claims all of a sudden that he's fast tracking! Barack Obama does this after months of steadfast opposition, passionate opposition, with detailed explanations of why the Keystone pipeline's bad.
It's not gonna affect the amount of oil we have! No, no, no, no. We gotta get ourselves off of oil.
All of a sudden now, he wants to be seen as approving the Keystone pipeline. He's not doing that, folks. He's going to Cushing, Oklahoma, for a photo-op at the southern leg of the keep on pipeline that he claims to be fast-tracking. He's not doing anything about the northern half of the pipeline. It remains blocked. The northern half of the pipeline remains unauthorized. And that's the argumentative part. That's the part that's gonna go through sensitive swampland or whatever kind of land in Nebraska. But Obama, it's gonna be reported today or tonight, has authorized the construction of the Keystone pipeline.
He hasn't, folks. He hasn't. Nothing is going to change with the Keystone pipeline. It's not going to be built. Not now. He's not authorizing it to be built. He's trying to have his cake and eat it, too. He's gotta keep his base happy, but he's also gotta create the impression among the rest of Americans that he actually cares about the country the way they do. That's his big problem. How do you do both of those? Because his base, I'll tell you: Anything good for America, they don't like. That's the position the Democrat Party is in. I wouldn't want to be in that position. Anything that happens good for America they have to oppose.
Anything bad for America, they support. That's Obama's base. So he's gotta placate 'em. He needs 'em to turn out. He is in deep trouble on the reelect side in every poll you look at. And that's why he's going to Oklahoma to create this literal false impression that he's all of a sudden had a change of heart and is authorizing the Keystone pipeline. ...
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