From: Ruthfully Yours
COMMENT - John Fund is a political operative who works as a journalist. He provided the cover for the election fraud carried out by the NeoCons from 2000 to present day.
National Review
Nowhere
has President Obama’s legendary indecision been on more vivid display
than in his bizarre dithering over the Keystone XL pipeline, which would
move crude oil from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to Gulf Coast
refineries some 1,700 miles to the south. The southern leg of the
pipeline, from Oklahoma to the Gulf, began operating last week. But the
northern end has been in limbo for five years. Last March Obama assured
Senate Republicans that a decision on Keystone would be made before the
end of 2013. We are still waiting. One more broken promise.
Of course, the president claims that his indecision has nothing to do
with politics. He has his excuses. His own State Department’s
exhaustive environmental review didn’t raise any red flags, but the
White House has requested another review. State concluded that “the
proposed pipeline would serve the national interest,” but Obama says
that he needs to learn more. The pipeline would directly create 42,000
jobs over its two-year construction period in addition to tens of
thousands of support jobs, but President Obama counters that it would
result in only 50 “permanent” jobs for maintenance people once
completed. That’s like opposing the construction of the new World Trade
Center after 9/11 because the only permanent jobs created would be
building-maintenance ones. Sean McGarvey, president of the Building and
Construction Trades Department at the AFL-CIO respond to Keystone’s
critics this way: “The interstate Highway System was a temporary job;
Mount Rushmore was a temporary job. If they knew anything about the
construction industry, they’d understand that we work ourselves out of
jobs and we go from job to job to job.”
It’s increasingly obvious that Obama’s main reason for delaying the
pipeline decision is politics, pure and simple. His
environmental-activist supporters, for whom reducing carbon emissions is
paramount, have turned the battle into a high-profile cause célèbre.
The green camp would view any decision from Obama as an act of betrayal.
“It’s not going to be pleasant if it is approved,” Robert J. Brulle, a
Drexel University professor who studies the environmental movement, told National Journal.
“One thing we can be pretty sure of is that the marriage between the
greens and the Democratic party will be brought under pretty severe
review.” MORE
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