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President Obama vetoed a bill authorizing the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Tuesday, carrying out a threat to reject one of the first measures the Republican-led Congress sent to the president's desk.
"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," Obama wrote in a message to the Senate.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said earlier Tuesday that Obama planned to veto the bill because the State Department is still conducting a review of whether the massive pipeline — which would transport roughly 800,000 barrels of heavy crude from Hardisty, Alberta, to refineries in Port Arthur, Tex. — would serve the national interest.
"Through this bill, the United States Congress attempts to circumvent longstanding and proven processes for determining whether or not building and operating a cross-border pipeline serves the national interest," Obama wrote.
Well this is going to piss off a whole lot of Republican lawmakers.
Not that they did not see this coming of course.
I keep hearing some pundits suggesting that the President might ultimately allow the pipeline to be built, once the State Department review is complete, but I have a hard time believing he would do that.
Anybody of a different opinion?
Good for President Obama, the Republicans are going to complain no matter what he did.
ReplyDeleteIn the mean time the Rethugs will have to come up with a new jobs bill, yeah right, create 35 jobs elsewhere.
I don't see how build this pipeline has anything to do with national interest, the steel is foreign, the tar sands are profiting a foreign company and the oil would be shipped over seas.
On the other hand, a foreign company is taking land away from US citizens, it is definitely a potential security risk to our water, environment and target for terrorism.
Where is the benefit other than to the Koch brothers and the legislators that were paid by Trans Canada? Oh yeah and the 35 jobs it created.
Who would have believed a black man with a pen has a bigger erection than 300 Republicans armed with Viagra.
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DeleteWho would have believed a black man with a pen has a bigger erection than 300 Republicans armed with Viagra."
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That Obama, he's hung like a Mont Blanc
Do you think people might understand the situation if you and others would stop referring to what is going to be sent thru this pipeline as Oil?
ReplyDeleteI t isn't crude or heavy crude oil. It will be a Bitumenum slurry, think of that asphalt street in front of your house being heated up to melting point while being watered down and sent thru the pipeline. That is probably much closer to what this stuff is rather than crude oil.
Anyone who's been paying attention knows that this pipeline is a disaster waiting to happen. There are no upsides and a whole lot of potentially catastrophic downsides to building it.
DeleteOn the other hand, those who are still in favor of it will probably not listen to any of those science-y people who they're convinced are just puppets for that Kenyan Muzzlin Obama usurper anyway. Because those honest folks at Fox would NEVER lie, would they?
Oh, and doesn't this stuff have lots of extremely dangerous toxic chemicals added to it, too? And, if I recall correctly, no one has actually figured out a way to clean up this sludge if it does, in fact, leak from pipes that have already shown themselves to be of inferior material and construction.
Thankfully, President Obama has his veto pen charged up and ready to go!
The product would be refined at the refinery that just blew up. My cousin was on her way to work when it happened. She said she felt it about a mile away from the employee entrance. keystone must be killed.
ReplyDeleteThe president did exactly as he said he'd do. There should be no surprise.
ReplyDeleteIt takes enormous courage to do the right thing, something that is extremely rare in politics.
ReplyDeleteOur President continues to demonstrate his leadership and his love for his Country and it's future existence.
I read that Boehner had a nervous breakdown over this (with the headline: ORANGE IS CRUSHED)
ReplyDeleteCan he possibly make it any more obvious that he stood to gain financially on this terrible piece of legislation?
This sure sounds like something for which he should be impeached...why aren't any committees being formed to look into this kind of conflict of interest?
The pipeline will eventually go in. It always does.
ReplyDeleteTheatre.
I think you're 100% wrong.
DeleteSorry, no it doesn't always do what you want it to do.
DeleteIt's dead for two years. It'll be dead if there's another Democratic president.
Why would we enrich a Canadian company to use thousands of miles of our land so they can sell their tracking to foreign powers? It makes no patriotic sense, nor economic sense, since only 35 American jobs will result.
It's a fail, from start to finish, with no American benefit to be discovered in all the bru-ha-ha. No American oil independence. Just using our land for Canadian benefit. let them build on their land.
Ahhh, don't forget about the HUGE benefit to your American Koch brothers! Some have suggested Keystone would make them realize some $9M A DAY in profits.
Delete11:09, 6:16, and especially 4:02.....
Delete"Fossil fuel corporations and a Canadian trade agency that has promoted the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline have donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation"...........
There you go. I don't need to provide a link as this is easily found everywhere in the news.
The pipeline will eventually go in. thaks
ReplyDeleteI am eagerly awaiting Sarah Palin's reaction. She will, of course, get it all wrong once again but it will provide some comic relief.
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Good.
ReplyDeleteHe needs to keep it up.
No more "activist" Congress trying to usurp the authority of the President.