The obAMATEUR is at it again. The least ObAMATEUR and his administration could do is be straight with the American people. When it comes to the decision to kill the Keystone pipeline, it had nothing to do with the reasons they cited and everything to do with Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. Why can’t he just say that the radical environmentalist vote is more important than 20,000 American jobs and a path toward energy independence?
Instead, what does ObAMATEUR do? He has the gall to kill the pipeline and then blame the Republicans!
Obama says that the reason he had to kill the pipeline is because the Republicans imposed an “arbitrary” deadline for him to make a decision. Here was Obama’s statement …
“This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline, but the arbitrary nature of a deadline that prevented the State Department from gathering the information necessary to approve the project and protect the American people. I’m disappointed that Republicans in Congress forced this decision.”
Gathering the necessary information to approve the project? The State Department has been reviewing this Keystone pipeline since 2008! I’m told that even by federal standards, four years is a long time for a project like this to be in limbo. As one Senator pointed out, “The Obama administration complains about a 60-day deadline, but in reality it has now had 1,217 days to make a decision.”
So that puts this asinine “arbitrary deadline” argument to bed. Now on to the next one … its environmental impact. Chief dog washer Jay Carney wants you to believe that if the pipeline were built, it could affect “the air that our children breathe” and the water they drink. Seriously!
Jay Carney: [It] would severely hamper their ability to review an alternate route and a new pipeline route in the proper way, a way that has long been established by precedent and that would take into consideration all the criteria that are so important in decisions like this. Economic impact, national security impact, environmental impact, the effect on the water that our children breathe — rather, the water our children drink and the air that they breathe.
This is what you would call a bunch of politi-scare horsesqueeze. TransCanada, the company looking to build the pipeline, has spent a full three years and $1.9 billion studying the environmental impact of this project. The State Department itself has already done an entire Environmental Impact Statement. Why they need another one is beyond me.
At one point, environmentalists complained that the pipeline would threaten the Ogallala Aquifer. Researchers at the Conservation and Survey Division of the University of Nebraska have been studying this one stinking aquifer for 40 years. Even they determined that “the pipeline would pose a minimal risk to the Ogallala aquifer.” But the environmentalists bitched and moaned and so the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality came up with a new route for the pipeline. But that didn’t matter. These environmentalists didn’t really care about the Ogallala Aquifer, they just cared about killing the pipeline altogether. So they continued to push.
Meanwhile, Obama’s own jobs council on Tuesday said that the administration needs an “all-in approach” to energy policy, including oil and gas drilling and projects like the Keystone pipeline. The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness writes, “[W]e should allow more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands.”
Instead, ObAMATEUR is insistent that jobless benefits and temporary payroll tax cuts will do more for jobs in this nation than actual jobs. Back in December while battling over the extension of the payroll tax cut, ObAMATEUR said: “However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline,” he said, “they’re going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance.” The point, ObAMATEUR, is that you would rather have people on the government dole (keep the poor, poor) than allow them to work for a paycheck. This ensures growing the dependent class and creating and keeping more Democrat voters in November.
Another lie perpetuated by the obAMATEUR and his fellow Democrat minions and looters is that the 1700 mile pipeline will in all likelihood not create the 22,000 jobs projected. But, in another project in San Francisco they tout a 1.7 mile extension of the subway to create 43,000 jobs (is that with the additional unemployment benefits?). The lies from the left keep growing and growing.
With much fanfare early in his administration, this “leader” appointed a jobs council. This panel recommended that the rookie Executive support “policies that facilitate the safe, thoughtful and timely development of pipeline, transmission and distribution projects.” Further, the jobs council said that failure to promote these facilities would “stall the engine that could become a prime driver of U.S. jobs and growth in the decades ahead.”
The result is that obAMATEUR ignored his much touted panel because it encouraged oil exploration and tax cuts (gasp!). Now the drones will regurgitate the talking point that oil production is up since 2003. Yesterday Press Secretary Jay Carney said this: “The fact of the matter is, on oil and gas production, we have higher oil production in this country in 2010 than we’ve had since 2003.” When he made his announcement yesterday Obama said that under his administration “domestic oil and natural gas production is up.”
I heard the same thing from Juan Williams on Fox … repeating the “domestic oil production is up” line.
So … what’s the truth? First, let’s differentiate between private and public lands. ObAMATEUR has a great deal of control over the exploration for and recovery of oil from public – government – lands. When it comes to privately held property his degree of control (thank God) is somewhat less. Now … KNOW THIS. Listen up, because you won’t hear this from Juan Williams or the mainstream media. Gas and oil production from federal lands is down by 40% over the last ten years. The vast majority of increases in gas and oil production is taking place on private property … with North Dakota leading the way. Also … obAMATEUR has issued the LOWEST number of offshore oil leases since 1984. To top things off obAMATEUR just issued a 20-year ban on uranium mining on 1,000,000 acres of federal land in Arizona.
Get the picture? It’s the private sector on private lands that is responsible for any increase in oil and gas production. The obAMATEUR is working hard to move in the other direction.
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Isn’t it appropriate that Obama is in Disneyworld today, on the same day he kills the pipeline and tens of thousands of jobs? The guy lives in a fantasy world.
First time unemployment filers at a 4 year low, if this continues Barky will be hard to beat.
tired: wow, what a good little drone to regurgitate the lies and spin. Lat year, the unemployment rate was 64.3%, now it is 64%. That translates to a half millionpeople who are no longer looking for work because they have given up. Are you sure you want to brag about the truth? With the participation rate dropping, the enuemployment numbers will continue to fall giving the illusion you so readily and dutifully regurgitate. In December, the rate fell an additional 50,000 jobs. obAMATEUR is losing jobs and canceling projects that will provide jobs won’t look good for the election. But I am sure the ignorant masses will vote Democrat.
No question about that. The more McDonald’s creates drive through jobs, and the more people just quit looking for a job, the democrats are golden. What a great society liberals are building here.
“The more McDonald’s creates drive through jobs”
And yet another so-called conservative denigrates an honest, entry level job. I guess if you can’t land million dollar paydays from Freddie Mac, on the back of taxpayers you should hang your head in shame.
I am so glad you answered that barstool. You may not recall but it was back in 2003 or 2004, I think, when McDonald’s hired thousands of people, and the economy was emerging from the slight recession of 2000, and the events of 9/11. Well, upon the reporting of that, liberals went nuts, saying that these were not jobs families could live on, and that republicans only want to create low paying, menial jobs. So that was kind of a trap.
Cluster, will you please send me the key to the secret code so I can figure out how a comment on McDonald’s creating drive through jobs is “denigrating” the company.
It is so hard to keep up with the wild inventions dolf attaches to various statements, I usually don’t even bother with them, but this one caught my eye. Darned if I can find an insult in your comment.
There has to be a code, just as Jimmah knows the secret code of racism that changes every statement into a vile attack on people of color.
Well, I am glad to see it was a trap.
Tired has another trap about 40 percent decrease in gas. Of course natural gas production is at an all time high. The number one export of the US is refined gas. North American oil production all time high. Gulf of Mexico oil production all tome high.
Potentialnoil reserves in US with Bakken fields all time high. Things are going so well that as long as the next president keeps the US out of a new war, unfunds the big health care fiascos of the last 12 years and defunds only the new departments since Reagan the economy will recover.
Amy
The key is in the context. Cluster is a Republican and so if he says something the democrats are doing is GOLDEN he is plausibly trying to be sarcastic.
A further hint of this is his contention that it is a good thing for people to stop looking for work to help the official unemployment numbers look better.
The AND between McD jobs and people quitting hints at a parallel structure. Finally, Cluster himself said it was a trap.
If you are still challenged by the reading level of the Twilight series, you might seek help at a local library.
Actually Amazona is right on. I did not all denigrate the job, you inferred that through your knowledge of my political leanings.
Clueless
I know you and Amy don’t believe in common sense, but you both look ridiculous when you pretend that you argue through pure, logical deductions.
balddoof: “Tired has another trap about 40 percent decrease in gas.”
Wow balddoof, for someone who claims to be so intelligent you sure did drop the ball on that one.
Read it again, I did not say that all oil and gas production is 40% lower than 10 years ago. I said that oil and gas production FROM FEDERAL LANDS is 40% lower than 10 years ago. And your, export “proof” does not counter the argument anyway. Facts are facts and the Democrat pie in the sky anti-energy policy is to blame and they do have heavy influence on the use of federal land.
Ooops.
BTW, the democrats did denigrate the honest entry level jobs. They coined the term “hamburger flipper jobs” and stated that they were not real significant jobs – of course, they used it against a Republican. But when a Democrat is in office, to them, and like you, it may as well be the holy grail.
Again, for someone who claims to be so intelligent you really come off as a simple minded drone.
Tired
When the demand for oil is decreasing and private energy is increasing the government should be decreasing its output. Even Bush knew this which is why he was hesitant to use the strategic oil reserves for political gamesmanship.
balddoof, releasing oil from the Strategic Oil Reserves and producing oil/gas (drilling) from federal lands are two different activities. The SPR is a collection of storage facilities in TX and LA which are primarily old salt domes and other natural formations that already extracted oil can be stored for later use. Exploiting the natural resources on federal lands is something obAMATEUR will not do since he needs to placate the radical environmentalists and special interests. Also, he will continue to halt new projects such as the pipeline, strangle the release of new leases in the gulf and limit production any way he can (again, federal lands that he can control) so he can continue his pie in the sky inefficient energy policies which again placate the environmentalists and special interests.
You are comparing apples to oranges, again.
After three years of barky, I am surprised there are that many jobs left to lose. Don’t worry though when the revised stats come out 2 months from now it will be an “unexpected” increase again.
Tired you are getting into the weeds a bit, if the trajectory of the economy continues to get better Barky will be hard to beat. The electorate is overwhelmingly ignorant. You can rant all you want that is not gonna change.
Yes the electorate is ignorant as you have proven yourself to be.
With that last post, you fell for the spin and lies coming from the left. The economy is where obAMATEUR’s own economists said it would be if he did NOTHING. So what have we gained for the $1 trillion plus spent on his schemes – NOTHING. Well not nothing, a portion of the ignorant electorate who will vote Democrat – vote buying at its best. Proudly count yourself among them.
Could we not just classify the pipeline as a subway for crude oil? Then we could claim 4,300,00 new jobs would be created. Perhaps a few of them might be in San Francisco?
good lets give Ochimpy a “real job” this nov, UNEMPLOYMENT!!
For those of you who own property you might think about this:
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=444a23907c4c5a0be830ce8a32803216
Do US property owners have rights? Are the rights of an foreign company greater that those of US property owners.
And from Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/18/six-reasons-keystone-xl-was-bad-deal-all-along/
From the article:
Reason #1: The oil to be sent through Keystone XL pipeline was never destined for US markets. In its own presentation to investors about the proposed pipeline extension, TransCanada (the company behind Keystone XL) boasted that most if not all of the extracted and refined oil would be exported — sold in oversees markets
That is the case with all crude oil, and having exclusive right to the oil never was the reason for building it.
Reason #2: In its permit application for the pipeline, TransCanada noted that the Keystone XL pipeline would allow the company to drain these reserves and export that fuel as well.
Reserves of which can easily be offset by the Baaken fields in North Dakota. Interesting to note that here a liberal claims that a small amount of reserves can effect supply and prices. But that same liberal will tell you that our own domestic reserves will do nothing to effect our supply or price.
Reason #3: In 2008, TransCanada’s original permit application to the State Department said the Keystone XL pipeline would create “a peak workforce of approximately 3,500 to 4,200 construction personnel” in temporary jobs building the pipeline.
Wow, so 3500 jobs is not worth it? Yet, a billion dollar stimulus package that temporarily employs public union members is?
Reason #4: The pipeline that the Obama administration has rejected the permit for would be an extension of a pipeline that has already leaked — not just once, but 12 times in the last year.
It’s a shame that we don’t have the technology to remedy such matters. Oh wait – we do.
Reason #5: Nebraska’s Republican Governor Dave Heineman strongly opposed the Keystone XL project because the pipeline would run through a massive and vital aquifer in his state the supplies clean drinking water to over 2 million Americans plus water that fuels the region’s agriculture industry.
Valid argument, but can be remedied
Reason #6: Mining these reserves would release all of that carbon into the atmosphere, to detrimental effect on our environment.
Really? Still buying into that hoax? Have you looked at carbon levels over the last twenty years and the corresponding temperature data? Not exactly a direct link, but that doesn’t stop the liberal hysteria.
So one valid argument – let’s find a solution instead of killing it.
again, velma for someone who claims to be a lawyer, you sure are uniformed and ignorant of US court cases. Research Kilo vs New London.
It is not the EVIL OIL COMPANIES you have to worry about in which the deal will be more scrutinized than say you own county/state governments. You really have to worry about your county/state governments desperate for higher tax revenue.
http://t.co/sG4cUO7q
Here is the Gov. of Montana on Cavuto explaining why the pipeline was halted, it might be true who knows.
Well, the following statement from your article sure points out the bias inherent in it.
Let me put that in English, rather than Republicant. Mr. Heineman would like to use the President’s decision to delay approval of the pipeline as political cover for his own decision to actually listen to the people in his state who approved and facilitated the delay and re-routing.
Charles and David Koch couldn’t ask for a better puppet.
Ever since Jimmah stated his opinion on “codes” I have been aware of the code words of the Left, and references to the eeeeevil Koches sure stand out as code for Rabidly Radical Propagandist Lefty.
If the article can stand on its merit, then let it stand on its merit, without snotty editorializing that serves only to point out bias and lack of journalistic integrity.
I didn’t read the article I just watched the video. Clearly, crooks and liars is biased but I was just sharinig the video.
As one Senator pointed out, “The Obama administration complains about a 60-day deadline, but in reality it has now had 1,217 days to make a decision.”
Once an underlying lie is pointed out, the rest of the statement is tainted as well.
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Since I live in a state the pipeline is going through, I thought I would add a little something to this……It isn’t that the NE Governor exactly opposed the pipeline. He wanted a new impact study finished on an alternative route thru the sand hills. Why would anyone be surprised that the WH and this admin would blame the Republicans or terrorists ( a term the left and Dems use for ANYONE who disagrees with Obama) for disagreeing with them.
Remember, unemployment is good for the country per Nancy Pelosi.
I was just over in Watford ND, they are paying $51 an hour for workers on the rig pads.
See, right there’s 22,000 jobs Obama’s killed, and Lord only knows how many more in the past 3 1/2 years.
jer
that is THE marxist plan…..
The Cloward/Piven Strategy
Cloward-Piven Paradise Now?
By Jeannie DeAngelis
Combine class warfare, demonizing the rich, getting as many people onto the welfare rolls as possible, and pushing the economic system to collapse and you have a flawless formula for Cloward-Piven 2.0 — and a vehicle that ensures Obama remains in power.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/cloward-piven_paradise_now.html#ixzz1jwzSZsHZ
Obamba’s army gearing up for election day…….
Brutal Attack By Philly Teens on Wounded Vietnam Vet Caught on Video
al? je$$e? Oh WAIT!!
Just a note to GMB:
I have been a little snarky with you lately, and for that I apologize. I think you’re a good egg and you need to know that I agree with you on many more occasions than not and always enjoy reading your comments.
I agree with you on many more occasions than not and always enjoy reading your comments.
yeah you %^%$$**Y^(#@………LOL
I love a make up, 🙂
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NEWT IS ON FIRE!!! Great start to the debate
The twitterverse was buzzing about Newt, saying he won the debate in the first 5 minutes. Also, apparrently your guy Mitt didn’t do to well especially with the tax returns. I can’t watch the debates but follow them on twitter. Even Ramesh from NRO said Romney looked bad. If Newt wins SC its a whole new ballgame.
Again Wally responds with a simple denial of my sourced facts with nothing to back it up. Since he could not produce a coherent argument, he resorts to his usual f-bombs and childish insults, plus whines more about his posts being deleted.
Ah, Wally the gift of liberal stupidity that keeps on giving.
Rejecting the Keystone Pipeline rejects energy independence, rejects blue collar jobs, rejects economic growth, rejects individual empowerment, emboldens government dependence, defines why Obama is the Food Stamp President.
The article is well written. Heck we’ll never run out of editorial schlickmeister material even after the election. 1700+ days to consider it.. Not to mention the fact that the refinery was built in the USA and shipped via trucks in modules. Even then the whiners tried to stop it from going over certain roads out of enviro concerns.. including excuses that babies won’t get enough sleep because the trucks would make too much noise.
According to Trans-can’s response they’re looking at building it from the bottom up and in sections instead of a singular pipeline perspective. That way the approval process will be in the hands of conservatives again after the elections and most assured that the TC people were told that option yesterday.
I don’t know where the estimated job numbers that will be created came from. Considering the alaskan pipeline, over a quarter of a million people got work with turn over, support functions equipment and operators etc. Too bad he didn’t bail out Catapillar but ironically the shoe fits why he didn’t.
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Btw.. if anybody doesn’t think that schlickmeister isn’t getting some on the side is NAIVE.
Btw.. if anybody doesn’t think that schlickmeister isn’t getting some on the side is NAIVE.
reggie love?
or
larry sinclair?
or maybe this “guy” would explain a lot……..
wally, 3500 jobs directly by TransCanada and there will be others created by support companies, venders, transportation, etc. etc. You are so simple-minded it is hysterical.
But, I like the way you ignore the fact that Democrats are claiming twice as many jobs in a 1.7 mile subway extension. Yet your response is the usual crickets. Oil/gas production from federal lands were accurate.
In your whole rant, you provided not one shred of evidence to prove anything I said wrong – just your usual run of the mill “Uh-uuuuuh, not true” tantrums.
Wally the liberal stupidity gift that keeps on giving, just the obAMATEUR himself and the rest of the looting left. When I keep reducing you to an f–bomb dropping moron, because you have nothing else, I know I have succeeded. But say whatever you have to in order to protect your dainty little ego and keep your panties clean.