Keystone Pipeline Not Entirely Dead--Yet

I'm happy to say that Barack Obama's big gift to the ecoweenie portion of his political base may yet be derailed. During the second week of November, Obama's State Department decided to "delay" (read "kill") the Keystone XL Canadian-American oil pipeline. The original discussion of this travesty can be accessed here: Keystone Pipeline. The Jobs President likes pie-in-the-sky, so he nixed a truly shovel-ready project to win back part of his base.

All reasonable estimates of this project (which was already in high gear in Canada) say that this pipeline would produce 20,000 new jobs "right away" on our side of the border. Tangentially, even more jobs would be created among the 1400 U.S. companies who sell products and offer services to oil transport.

Thirty-seven Republican Senators are sponsoring a bill offered by Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Indiana). The bill is called The North American Energy Security Act. The title recognizes that the miserable state of our economy and the static unemployment numbers are among the most serious security threats to America's survival as a world power. Lugar's bill specifically addresses the Keystone XL pipeline, but also contains provisions for going forward with other similar projects which have all been thoroughly vetted and have complied with all federal requirement, including environmental impact reports.

President Obama is only interested in creating government-subsidized green projects which are largely unlikely to succeed and which will take years of research and development before final approval. He is only interested in creating jobs for federal employees, jobs which depend on government largess, or jobs which involve heavy government intervention. Keystone XL fits none of those criteria. It is truly shovel-ready, and will produce both jobs and revenue almost entirely in the private sector (tax-payers rather than tax-eaters), right away.

Likewise, Obama couldn't care less about the American people or American prosperity. His only interest is his own reelection and beatification. Knowing that people who work for a living will not be voting for him anyway (union members partially-excluded). He knows that ecoweenies and big government lovers will vote for him. So he finds it politically-expedient to pander to the lefties who were beginning to drift away from him. When the left started criticizing him for not standing in the way of a project that they simply don't like, he caved in.

Obama found a way to accomplish this political stall without having to directly attack his own ecoweenies in the Environmental Protection Agency that had given the project final approval. He could babble about protecting the environment, listening to the people (the left people), and protecting America from a bad deal with Canada. That put the project under the power of the State Department instead of the Interior Department and the EPA. It was a clever dodge to avoid having to deal with a pipeline that could now be delayed until after the 2012 elections.

In fact, the ploy succeeded in the delay (so far), but is another foreign policy boondoggle. The Canadians acted in good faith, assisted in the American environmental studies, agreed to changes that addressed local concerns, and went forward with its end of the project on the assumption America would keep its word. They forgot to account for Obama. Canadians can't vote in American elections, and the longtime friendly relationship between America and Canada is far less important to the perpetual campaigner than a few thousand votes created or saved for his green constituency.

Once again, a longtime ally gets slapped in the face. Once again, large numbers of jobs in a genuinely shovel-ready project are squelched. Once again, government bureaucrats control the very life's blood of a private enterprise. Once again, the Democrats betray America by claiming to find flaws in a project that was thoroughly investigated and approved over an arduous three year process. Once again, the green tail wags the American dog. Once again, they sacrifice jobs and prosperity over a phony environmental concern. They demand perfection before approval. Ain't gonna happen. Every project is going to offend someone. Civilization always requires trade-offs. And as soon as the elections are over, the imperfections will be forgotten anyway.

The State Department was entirely unprepared for the large backlash regarding the pipeline. State Department spokesman Mark Toner was asked about the Energy Security Act and didn't have a clue what the news people were asking about. Three days later, rather than face serious questioning about the motives behind the delay, Toner issued a written statement:

"This department remains committed to ensuring a transparent, thorough and rigorous review of whether the proposed pipeline project is in the national interest. Consistent with Executive Order No. 13337 (yep, another executive order), after consultations with a broad range of stakeholders, we determined it is necessary to specifically assess alternative routes around the environmentally sensitive Nebraska Sand Hills. Based on past experience and possible total mileage of alternative routes that would need to be reviewed, we anticipate the evalutaion could conclude as early as the first quarter of 2013. We look forward to continuing to consult with Congress as this process moves forward."

Wouldn't it have been refreshing if this ultimate bureaucrat had simply said: "We already have all the reviews, we already decided on the routes (no viable new ones will be proposed), we know everything we need to know, but since we'll gain more green votes than we'll lose job votes, we decided that it was politically-expedient to delay until after the presidential election?"

I wish the sponsors of the bill all the luck and success in the world. But I also recognize that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid knows how to kill a bill faster than almost anyone. And even if it got past him, it would still have to pick up a filibuster-proof supermajority of conservative Republicans, weak-kneed Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats to have any chance of succeeding. The Great Job-Creator Obama will probably get his victory on the issue. Whether he'll get enough votes to win in 2012 is less sure.

Keystone Pipeline Not Entirely Dead--Yet

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I'm happy to say that Barack Obama's big gift to the ecoweenie portion of his political base may yet be derailed. During the second week of November, Obama's State Department decided to "delay" (read "kill") the Keystone XL Canadian-American oil pipeline. The original discussion of this travesty can be accessed here: Keystone Pipeline. The Jobs President likes pie-in-the-sky, so he nixed a truly shovel-ready project to win back part of his base.

All reasonable estimates of this project (which was already in high gear in Canada) say that this pipeline would produce 20,000 new jobs "right away" on our side of the border. Tangentially, even more jobs would be created among the 1400 U.S. companies who sell products and offer services to oil transport.

Thirty-seven Republican Senators are sponsoring a bill offered by Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Indiana). The bill is called The North American Energy Security Act. The title recognizes that the miserable state of our economy and the static unemployment numbers are among the most serious security threats to America's survival as a world power. Lugar's bill specifically addresses the Keystone XL pipeline, but also contains provisions for going forward with other similar projects which have all been thoroughly vetted and have complied with all federal requirement, including environmental impact reports.

President Obama is only interested in creating government-subsidized green projects which are largely unlikely to succeed and which will take years of research and development before final approval. He is only interested in creating jobs for federal employees, jobs which depend on government largess, or jobs which involve heavy government intervention. Keystone XL fits none of those criteria. It is truly shovel-ready, and will produce both jobs and revenue almost entirely in the private sector (tax-payers rather than tax-eaters), right away.

Likewise, Obama couldn't care less about the American people or American prosperity. His only interest is his own reelection and beatification. Knowing that people who work for a living will not be voting for him anyway (union members partially-excluded). He knows that ecoweenies and big government lovers will vote for him. So he finds it politically-expedient to pander to the lefties who were beginning to drift away from him. When the left started criticizing him for not standing in the way of a project that they simply don't like, he caved in.

Obama found a way to accomplish this political stall without having to directly attack his own ecoweenies in the Environmental Protection Agency that had given the project final approval. He could babble about protecting the environment, listening to the people (the left people), and protecting America from a bad deal with Canada. That put the project under the power of the State Department instead of the Interior Department and the EPA. It was a clever dodge to avoid having to deal with a pipeline that could now be delayed until after the 2012 elections.

In fact, the ploy succeeded in the delay (so far), but is another foreign policy boondoggle. The Canadians acted in good faith, assisted in the American environmental studies, agreed to changes that addressed local concerns, and went forward with its end of the project on the assumption America would keep its word. They forgot to account for Obama. Canadians can't vote in American elections, and the longtime friendly relationship between America and Canada is far less important to the perpetual campaigner than a few thousand votes created or saved for his green constituency.

Once again, a longtime ally gets slapped in the face. Once again, large numbers of jobs in a genuinely shovel-ready project are squelched. Once again, government bureaucrats control the very life's blood of a private enterprise. Once again, the Democrats betray America by claiming to find flaws in a project that was thoroughly investigated and approved over an arduous three year process. Once again, the green tail wags the American dog. Once again, they sacrifice jobs and prosperity over a phony environmental concern. They demand perfection before approval. Ain't gonna happen. Every project is going to offend someone. Civilization always requires trade-offs. And as soon as the elections are over, the imperfections will be forgotten anyway.

The State Department was entirely unprepared for the large backlash regarding the pipeline. State Department spokesman Mark Toner was asked about the Energy Security Act and didn't have a clue what the news people were asking about. Three days later, rather than face serious questioning about the motives behind the delay, Toner issued a written statement:

"This department remains committed to ensuring a transparent, thorough and rigorous review of whether the proposed pipeline project is in the national interest. Consistent with Executive Order No. 13337 (yep, another executive order), after consultations with a broad range of stakeholders, we determined it is necessary to specifically assess alternative routes around the environmentally sensitive Nebraska Sand Hills. Based on past experience and possible total mileage of alternative routes that would need to be reviewed, we anticipate the evalutaion could conclude as early as the first quarter of 2013. We look forward to continuing to consult with Congress as this process moves forward."

Wouldn't it have been refreshing if this ultimate bureaucrat had simply said: "We already have all the reviews, we already decided on the routes (no viable new ones will be proposed), we know everything we need to know, but since we'll gain more green votes than we'll lose job votes, we decided that it was politically-expedient to delay until after the presidential election?"

I wish the sponsors of the bill all the luck and success in the world. But I also recognize that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid knows how to kill a bill faster than almost anyone. And even if it got past him, it would still have to pick up a filibuster-proof supermajority of conservative Republicans, weak-kneed Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats to have any chance of succeeding. The Great Job-Creator Obama will probably get his victory on the issue. Whether he'll get enough votes to win in 2012 is less sure.
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I'm happy to say that Barack Obama's big gift to the ecoweenie portion of his political base may yet be derailed. During the second week of November, Obama's State Department decided to "delay" (read "kill") the Keystone XL Canadian-American oil pipeline. The original discussion of this travesty can be accessed here: Keystone Pipeline. The Jobs President likes pie-in-the-sky, so he nixed a truly shovel-ready project to win back part of his base.

All reasonable estimates of this project (which was already in high gear in Canada) say that this pipeline would produce 20,000 new jobs "right away" on our side of the border. Tangentially, even more jobs would be created among the 1400 U.S. companies who sell products and offer services to oil transport.

Thirty-seven Republican Senators are sponsoring a bill offered by Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Indiana). The bill is called The North American Energy Security Act. The title recognizes that the miserable state of our economy and the static unemployment numbers are among the most serious security threats to America's survival as a world power. Lugar's bill specifically addresses the Keystone XL pipeline, but also contains provisions for going forward with other similar projects which have all been thoroughly vetted and have complied with all federal requirement, including environmental impact reports.

President Obama is only interested in creating government-subsidized green projects which are largely unlikely to succeed and which will take years of research and development before final approval. He is only interested in creating jobs for federal employees, jobs which depend on government largess, or jobs which involve heavy government intervention. Keystone XL fits none of those criteria. It is truly shovel-ready, and will produce both jobs and revenue almost entirely in the private sector (tax-payers rather than tax-eaters), right away.

Likewise, Obama couldn't care less about the American people or American prosperity. His only interest is his own reelection and beatification. Knowing that people who work for a living will not be voting for him anyway (union members partially-excluded). He knows that ecoweenies and big government lovers will vote for him. So he finds it politically-expedient to pander to the lefties who were beginning to drift away from him. When the left started criticizing him for not standing in the way of a project that they simply don't like, he caved in.

Obama found a way to accomplish this political stall without having to directly attack his own ecoweenies in the Environmental Protection Agency that had given the project final approval. He could babble about protecting the environment, listening to the people (the left people), and protecting America from a bad deal with Canada. That put the project under the power of the State Department instead of the Interior Department and the EPA. It was a clever dodge to avoid having to deal with a pipeline that could now be delayed until after the 2012 elections.

In fact, the ploy succeeded in the delay (so far), but is another foreign policy boondoggle. The Canadians acted in good faith, assisted in the American environmental studies, agreed to changes that addressed local concerns, and went forward with its end of the project on the assumption America would keep its word. They forgot to account for Obama. Canadians can't vote in American elections, and the longtime friendly relationship between America and Canada is far less important to the perpetual campaigner than a few thousand votes created or saved for his green constituency.

Once again, a longtime ally gets slapped in the face. Once again, large numbers of jobs in a genuinely shovel-ready project are squelched. Once again, government bureaucrats control the very life's blood of a private enterprise. Once again, the Democrats betray America by claiming to find flaws in a project that was thoroughly investigated and approved over an arduous three year process. Once again, the green tail wags the American dog. Once again, they sacrifice jobs and prosperity over a phony environmental concern. They demand perfection before approval. Ain't gonna happen. Every project is going to offend someone. Civilization always requires trade-offs. And as soon as the elections are over, the imperfections will be forgotten anyway.

The State Department was entirely unprepared for the large backlash regarding the pipeline. State Department spokesman Mark Toner was asked about the Energy Security Act and didn't have a clue what the news people were asking about. Three days later, rather than face serious questioning about the motives behind the delay, Toner issued a written statement:

"This department remains committed to ensuring a transparent, thorough and rigorous review of whether the proposed pipeline project is in the national interest. Consistent with Executive Order No. 13337 (yep, another executive order), after consultations with a broad range of stakeholders, we determined it is necessary to specifically assess alternative routes around the environmentally sensitive Nebraska Sand Hills. Based on past experience and possible total mileage of alternative routes that would need to be reviewed, we anticipate the evalutaion could conclude as early as the first quarter of 2013. We look forward to continuing to consult with Congress as this process moves forward."

Wouldn't it have been refreshing if this ultimate bureaucrat had simply said: "We already have all the reviews, we already decided on the routes (no viable new ones will be proposed), we know everything we need to know, but since we'll gain more green votes than we'll lose job votes, we decided that it was politically-expedient to delay until after the presidential election?"

I wish the sponsors of the bill all the luck and success in the world. But I also recognize that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid knows how to kill a bill faster than almost anyone. And even if it got past him, it would still have to pick up a filibuster-proof supermajority of conservative Republicans, weak-kneed Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats to have any chance of succeeding. The Great Job-Creator Obama will probably get his victory on the issue. Whether he'll get enough votes to win in 2012 is less sure.

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Keystone Pipeline Not Entirely Dead--Yet