Obama Vetoes Keystone Pipeline
He didn’t want to do it. He felt he . . . owed it to us:
President Obama vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have approved the Keystone XL pipeline, making good on a threat to reject a proposal embraced by Republicans as a jobs measure but opposed by environmentalists as contributing to climate change.
“The presidential power to veto legislation is one I take seriously,” Obama said in his veto message to the Senate. “But I also take seriously my responsibility to the American people. And because this act of Congress conflicts with established executive branch procedures and cuts short thorough consideration of issues that could bear on our national interest — including our security, safety, and environment — it has earned my veto.”
Well, we wouldn’t want to interfere with the powers of another branch now, would we?
January 20, 2017 can’t come quick enough. 694 days, but who’s counting?
Ding.
Patterico (9c670f) — 2/25/2015 @ 7:43 amhe hates jobs even more than he hates America
for the love of god someone please please please book this deeply damaged horrifically stunted little man a series of intensive therapy dog sessions
happyfeet (a037ad) — 2/25/2015 @ 7:58 amThere is nothing his guy does for the benefit of the United States. We need jobs, long and short term. We need people back to work. We need oil and the international independence it gives us. We need the security and income from oil and all energy sources especially one that don’t need to be artificially supported by the taxpayer rather than the consumer. But this guy aligns himself with tree huggers. They create nothing, suck money out of the treasury, cost business billions a year in law suits and regulatory delays and generally harm the security and resources of America.
Does Obama love America? What do his actions say?
Hoagie (58a3ec) — 2/25/2015 @ 8:04 amObama has the audacity to claim he takes seriously his responsibility to the American people. Yet, he failed to explain how denying the nation of the energy necessary to fuel an economic recovery and depriving Americans of the thousands of good paying jobs that would flow from building and operating the Keystone Pipeline accomplishes anything but self-inflicted damage to our national interests – including undermining our energy security, ignoring our economic safety, and making a fawning mockery of his pretense of respect for our environment.
This man, our president, is not to be trusted, he’s a two-faced liar and he doesn’t have our interests at heart. And he just proved it.
ropelight (490d25) — 2/25/2015 @ 8:15 amSo long as Buffet can move the oil on trains in Canada, everything will be o.k.
mg (31009b) — 2/25/2015 @ 8:19 amTrains wrecks or not!!
I bet reporters will be asking Hillary whether she would have signed it. Not.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/25/2015 @ 8:20 amNot one single thing to see here, eh Warren baby.
mg (31009b) — 2/25/2015 @ 8:33 amBNSF Railway
http://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/2717757-151/bnsf-investigating-diesel-fuel-spill
When he makes these ridiculous statements, he’s mocking us. He’s ruining the country on purpose and mocking anyone who objects.
Patricia (5fc097) — 2/25/2015 @ 8:38 amWe’ve recently had two major train wrecks carrying oil. Fires, environmental damage, loss of jobs, money and time. Injuries and I’m not sure if anyone was killed or not. But nonetheless, it’s all unnecessary, just build the damn pipeline. There are dozens of them in operation why is the Keystone such a monumental deal to Obama?
I don’t understand after 6 years of the crap he’s done to America in foreign relations, the military, economics, energy, jobs, education and our Freedom in general how anyone with an IQ over 40 can still support this fool. Yet there are those who still adore him and worship at his feet.
Hoagie (58a3ec) — 2/25/2015 @ 8:53 amI’ve noticed it’s the poor looking for handouts and freebees and obamaphones or the super rich looking for favors, exemptions and subsidies that still love this looser. Oh, and our enemies of course! But for us (still working) guys in the middle this idiot is a freekin’ nightmare. Wait till they get a load of the taxes, fines and penalties this and next year with obamacare.
Hoagie (58a3ec) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:00 amThis guy is bought and paid for by his green friends.
Skeptical Voter (12e67d) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:07 amSomeone said*, “Greens are like watermelons. Green on the outside, red on the inside”.
*It was papertiger, a commenter on this blog.
nk (dbc370) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:21 amBah, nk. I heard that 20 years ago and have used it many times myself.
Hoagie (58a3ec) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:23 amI’ve also made the statement that my reason for loathing Obama is not because he’s black on the outside. It’s because he’s a red on the inside.
Hoagie (58a3ec) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:24 amRealistically, the oil companies don’t care: they’re just shipping the oil by rail, and any accidents become the railroad companies’ responsibility. More tanker cars are being manufactured now, so the job losses from not building Keystone are being offset.
So, the oil still gets used — depending, of course, on whether the price of imported oil stays low — but it is transported less safely. This is why Rush Limbaugh refers to them as environmentalist whackos: they really are very, very stupid people.
The economist Dana (f6a568) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:29 amJust slightly over 60 million seconds.
One million minutes, as of about 1;20 pm EST.
Sammy Finkelman (a551ff) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:31 amObama’s red on the outside too, he was a red diaper baby.
ropelight (490d25) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:32 am3. We need oil to be delivered by pipeline and not by rail.
Sammy Finkelman (a551ff) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:32 amHoagie (58a3ec) — 2/25/2015 @ 8:53 am
Sammy Finkelman (a551ff) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:35 amOil companies care about spills because they are about their businesses, and spills of any kind are bad for business. They may be able to protect themselves legally with insurance, indemnity agreements, and/or third party liability, but they still get the public relations’ blame even if someone else is at fault.
Which makes oil companies like the GOP in Congress. Where can we talk about McConnell and the GOP senate fiasco?
DRJ (e80d46) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:39 amIt will be interesting to see if either house attempts to override this veto.
The administration is playing hard ball, and Mitch and company have discovered that they can’t put their uniforms on over their Depends® plus assorted protective gear. So they’ve decided to stay in the locker room rather than risk soiling themselves in front of the cameras.
They say politics is the art of the possible. The Republican “leadership” conflates “difficult” with “impossible” whenever they are faced with a conflict with the administration. They are a singularly inept collection of hopeful artists. But they certainly are willing to appear to be brave and convincing four weeks before an election. Of course, Congress is not in session just before an election. No point reminding the electorate of what a conniving crew of liars we have entrusted the country to.
What a sorry collection of weaklings.
bobathome (f208b6) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:48 am“Sorry collection of weaklings” is a good start but it may be too kind. It makes them sound inept, but I don’t think they are inept. I think they walk a tightrope of lies trying to make themselves look good at the expense of the people who elected them. That’s the opposite of inept.
DRJ (e80d46) — 2/25/2015 @ 9:56 amThe world needs ditchdiggers too
carlitos (c24ed5) — 2/25/2015 @ 10:07 amTalking about the economic effects of this veto is likely to be vastly more useful in laying groundwork for the next national election than using this veto as another data point in the unwinnable argument over whether “Obama loves America.”
Just like arguing about VA Secretary Robert McDonald’s inaccurate description of himself as having been in “special forces” (only Green Berets) instead of “special operations” (Green Berets, Rangers, SEALS, etc.) is a waste of political oxygen. For God’s sake, sitting at the President’s very elbow at the Cabinet table is a man, John F’in Kerry, whose vastly more consequential, pernicious, deliberate, substantive and systematic lies about his military service are still seared — seared! — in my memory. Kerry has always managed to skate on the subject of his collaboration with our nation’s enemy during the Paris Peace Talks while his USNR officer’s uniform still hung in his closet back home. He used his lies and evasions as the cornerstone of a campaign to defraud the American public into electing him as if he were a war hero instead of a traitor.
We are in a target-rich environment when it comes to pointing out the Dems’ consequential and objective lies. Pick good targets, friends and neighbors.
Beldar (fa637a) — 2/25/2015 @ 10:09 amA few years back I went and wrote an app to help with the countdown: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/obama-countdown/336aed9b-bfbd-4782-98c8-9032391e8ea8
I fear though it’s not just 694 days… but ~694 days, 22 hours, 45 minutes (at the time of this writing).
Brendan (301796) — 2/25/2015 @ 10:15 am#21, so, am I take it you have reservations about supporting a Kerry/Bergdahl ticket in 2016.
ropelight (490d25) — 2/25/2015 @ 12:50 pmSeven years, or more, State has been looking into this project, and President Selfie says he’s waiting for them to come to a conclusion – because Dey Da Man!
askeptic (efcf22) — 2/25/2015 @ 1:07 pmWell, I would just say: Justice delayed is Justice denied, and that works for EIR’s too.
Beldar, we’re still waiting to see his Navy File too.
askeptic (efcf22) — 2/25/2015 @ 1:08 pm18- For all of the Majority Leader’s supposed expertise in The Art of the Deal, he sure seems to be on a fast-track to irrelevance.
askeptic (efcf22) — 2/25/2015 @ 1:10 pmHe is the Poster Child of the Stupid Party.
Mitch Mcconnell has been Judge Roberts.
mg (31009b) — 2/25/2015 @ 1:37 pmCan we bet on Boehner to hold the line against amnesty?
Come again?
carlitos (c24ed5) — 2/25/2015 @ 1:43 pmand on the morning of January 20, 2017 a few thousand criminals will get their Presidential pardons.
seeRpea (181740) — 2/25/2015 @ 1:52 pmNo they will not get pardons. Pardoned people cannot invoke the 5th amendment and must testify truthfully (a pardon cannot forgive future perjury). Also, if all the underlings are pardoned, there will only be one guy left to take the fall. Nixon most pointedly did not pardon Haldemann, Erlichman, Mitchell or Dean. If he had done the blanket pardon thing, he would have swung for Watergate himself.
Kevin M (56aae1) — 2/25/2015 @ 5:10 pmBy the way, any GOP Senator who votes for this DHS deal needs to be primaried or beset with a Tea Party opponent. This is where I get off the GOP bandwagon.
Kevin M (56aae1) — 2/25/2015 @ 5:12 pmcarlitos – meaning he caved like judge roberts.
mg (31009b) — 2/25/2015 @ 5:37 pmP poor description by me.
Biden/ al-Bergdahl has a nice ring to it. The dumb and dumber dream team.
and #20
steveg (794291) — 2/25/2015 @ 6:47 pmCalifornia needs ditchdiggers, since no one here knows how to use a pick or a digging bar or a shovel. I’ve seen rich young people mesmerized by how fast the hispanic guys dig holes and they’ve come to believe that ALL Mexican men know how to garden, dig holes and cut stone.
California is full of really smart dumb people and for some reason I fit right in
Naw. Never said it. Didn’t see me say it. Can’t prove a thing.
I believe it with all my heart though, and can show you links to Russian oil companies funding the Sierra club.
Gasprom and the Sierra Club have something in common. They both hate Americans.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:27 amCan’t stand us driving around freely or at least inexpensively.
Someone* said that you said it. That makes it true.
*I said that you said it.
nk (dbc370) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:30 amGasprom and the Sierra Club have something in common. They both hate Americans.
Gasprom, Obama, and the Sierra Club, have something in common. They all hate Americans.
Gasprom has even put up their own money to prove it. That makes them better than > Obama, and the Sierra Club.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:33 amObama, the Sierra Club, and Hillary only hate Americans with other peoples money.
relax nk I probably won’t sue.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:34 amNothing is a bigger threat to the borshts and the camel molesters than North American domestic oil.
They’ll pay off the oil brokers and distilleries, they’ll pay off the granolas, and they’ll spend billions on K Street lobbyists to keep the price of their stuff high. They’ll even buy a Presidency for a Bush.
nk (dbc370) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:36 amI’m starting a meme. “Someone said” is enough to make the rest of the statement worthy of credence and if you challenge it on substance you’re a bully.
nk (dbc370) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:38 amthe saudi royal perverts
they’ve declared war on north dakota
good luck with that you sick trashy saudi child-molesting weirdos
obama may bow to you
but real americans never ever will
happyfeet (831175) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:40 amEven then, I probably won’t sue. Got my lawyer on the line. Calling the whole thing off.
Call me racist if you want, just don’t call me a bully.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:42 amPlease. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! *NOT THE B-WORD!
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:43 amIsn’t it Saudi Oil funding Hillary’s campaign getting ink yesterday?
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:46 amI saw a YouTube ad voiced over by Elizabeth Warren? Pretty brutal. (Before a cartoon episode — Bugs Bunny or Phineas and Ferb.) And Drudge has some stuff up, but his steak seldom lives up to the sizzle.
nk (dbc370) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:49 amMatt Damon’s anti-fracking movie (that nobody watched or rented) financed by Oil-Rich Arab Nation
He was really credible as Dr. Michael Mann in Interstellar. {Because it was type casting*}
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:52 amBlocking cheap plentiful oil. Keeping it from hungry American energy markets and refineries.
Would you call that the act of a patriot?
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 3:55 amI’d call that the act of a Kenyan Muslim Communist a/k/a Mau Mau.
Really. Those were the Mau Mau and that was the government in Kenya that grandaddy Obama was a mid-level functionary in.
nk (dbc370) — 2/26/2015 @ 4:00 amAnyone else missing Brian Williams yet? At least with his lies he was just fumbling around for something interesting enough to fill space between commercials on the Letterman Show.
That other guy is trying to hog tie my car.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 4:08 amI’d call that the act of a Kenyan Muslim Communist a/k/a Mau Mau. Someone* said.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 4:10 am😉
http://www.americancrossroads.org/2015/02/new-video-rigged/
The Clinton Foundation took millions from FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Up to $5 MILLION
SAUDI ARABIA: Up to $25 MILLION
QUATAR (A prominent backer of HAMAS) undisclosed indeterminate MILLIONS
Powerful foreign governments are ready for Hillary.
Somebody* said. I think it was a commenter here, nk.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 4:34 amNow the Wapo is getting into the act.
That means Obama’s media polsters discovered President Walker beats Hillary in a head to head like a rented mule.
Now if someone would look into Gasprom contributions to Obama’s pac.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 5:36 amYou know he didn’t veto the pipeline for free.
This is the thing I remember about Jeb Bush. George W had just been elected President and it was put up or shut up on off shore oil drilling. The Bush brothers got together for a confab.
The next thing reported off shore drilling to commence in the 200 mile limit off of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Texas and Florida off limits.
That’s the extent of Bush conservatism. Might as well let the Mau Mau direct our feckless ineptitude.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/26/2015 @ 6:43 pmAt least then I know who I’m rooting against.
the Bushes are a spectacularly trashy and shallow family
but America embraced Obama twice
happyfeet (831175) — 2/27/2015 @ 1:38 am