Obama: Killed Keystone XL Pipeline AGAIN

From Politico.com:

The Senate on Thursday rejected an attempt to fast-track the Keystone XL pipeline — barely.

The White House and Democratic leadership squeaked out a 56-42 vote on an amendment to the Senate’s highway bill, winning only because 60 votes were needed for passage.

President Barack Obama had personally lobbied Democrats with phone calls urging them to oppose the measure, as Republicans continue to push the pipeline as a job-creating project needed in these days of high gasoline prices.

Eleven Democratic senators crossed party lines to support the amendment: Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Begich of Alaska, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Jon Tester of Montana, and Jim Webb of Virginia.

No Republicans opposed the measure, but two senators — Mark Kirk of Illinois and John Thune of South Dakota were absent.

Mr Obama has said he doesn't want to "play politics" with Keystone XL. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said so as well on Thursday:

The president believes that it is wrong to play politics with a pipeline project whose route has yet to be proposed.

That's right. The Republicans are "playing politics" here.

Let's re-examine that line above: "President Barack Obama had personally lobbied Democrats with phone calls urging them to oppose the measure."

But because Mr Obama plays politics, then that's not "playing politics."

And let's further recall that it was only a very few months ago, last year, that Mr Obama rejected a Keystone route through Nebraska on the heels of his very own admin having declared the project "environmentally sound."

On the other hand, Mr Obama has no problem whatsoever with financing Brazil's oil drilling off its own shores, to the tune of hundreds and hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars.

This is a political issue, and it is Mr Obama who has publicly made it so, because he has some type of phobia against petroleum products. Courtesy of pressure from the Religious Left.

How else can you conceptualize the turning down of friendly Canadian oil and insisting that we suck the pipes of Saudi and Middle Eastern CONFLICT OIL?

BZ