Obama: Killed The Keystone Pipeline, and Killing Our Nation

I've had to re-write this post twice.

Luckily, by now, I've managed to calm down. If 210/190 is calm.

Mr Obama has killed the Keystone XL pipeline proposal and, in perfect political form, blamed his rejection on the Republicans instead of his warped ideologies. And they are indeed warped.

Through the years I've attempted to be somewhat civil in my writings about Mr Obama. That said I've never, you may have noticed, placed the word "president" adjacent the name of Mr Obama, because I didn't believe then nor believe now that he deserves to have those two words immediately linked.

But I digress; for those unaware, the Keystone XL pipeline is a project wherein the company TransCanada proposes to build a 1,700-mile pipeline from Canada proper down into Texas and to Gulf Coast refineries. This $7 billion dollar enterprise portends, at minimum, some 10,000+ American jobs and is endorsed by many unions, the states involved, and Congress -- in some rather unusual bipartisan support.

Mr Obama also had until February 21st to decide. It was he who decided to make the early announcement -- absent further investigation -- a full month earlier than required. A further month that could have been utilized to "review" the issue.

From NationalJournal.com:

In a decision that quickly re-ignited a fierce energy debate, the Obama administration on Wednesday rejected the controversial Keystone XL pipeline because the 60-day deadline imposed by Republicans did not allow adequate time to review an alternate route through an ecologically sensitive area in Nebraska.

And that, on its face, is a bald LIE. Not a prevarication, not a mistake, not a misstatement -- it is a naked LIE.

The Keystone XL project has been under examination and the most severe scrutiny for the past three years. As you can see by the graphic, due to this scrutiny, the proposed pipeline has already been moved in order to accommodate various "aquifer concerns."


Luckily, Republican reaction was quick:

A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, decried the news. “President Obama is about to destroy tens of thousands of American jobs and sell American energy security to the Chinese,” said Brendan Buck. “The president won’t stand up to his political base even to create American jobs. This is not the end of this fight.”

I should care to point out: make no mistake. This is not the move of a man who is clueless and uninformed; oh no. This is the very calculated and arrogant move of a man who operates under an anti-Capitalist, anti-American, anti-Corporate, anti-Constitutionalist aegis and who was schooled and swears allegiance to Alinsky. His associates, endorsements, friends and acquaintances bespeak volumes: Reverend Wright, Reverend Pfleger, ACORN, Blagojevich, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Saul Alinsky but to name a few. He truly believes that Cloward-Piven must be enacted in order to bring this nation into global sway.

Canada won't wait forever. It is already our Number One supplier of crude. And its government is quite disappointed that we didn't jump at this deal. And a deal it is.

Mexico is our Number Two supplier of crude. Of all places, Venezuela is Number Three. Imagine that.

Canada would rather deal with its southern neighbor but -- make no mistake -- deal it will. If not with the United States, then China is certainly waiting in the wings and will most certainly take advantage of a situation where it would "get over" on the US in three ways:

• 1. By taking the oil from our very own back yard, and
• 2. By ensuring the oil will be utilized to create a larger, more powerful and militaristic China
• 3. To be used against us.
  

The only bright point:

Presidential representatives must also submit within 15 days a report to Congress detailing why the permit was rejected.

Obama also said that Keystone won't produce jobs.

Wrong.

Finally:

House Republicans have called Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to testify as early as next week on the Obama administration’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.

Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton formally sent a request to Clinton to come and testify at a hearing as early as next Wednesday, the day after President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress.

This is, as I am wont to say, an "abortion on toast."

Mr Obama jeopardizes our national security and sovereignty. And wants to spend and spend.

Does this place Mr Obama into the category of a "traitor"?

BZ

P.S.
And here's a Reality Check: gas and petroleum already flows in massive quantities, through live pipelines, alongside the various rights-of-way of numerous railroads criss-crossing the entire nation. And, on those selfsame rights-of-way, optic cable has also been laid years ago.