Obama Promises to Veto Keystone XL Poison Pill

As you know, President Obama has postponed his decision to approve or disapprove the Keystone XL pipeline until after the 2012 election.  In retaliation, Congress introduced a bill to take away the president’s authority to make the Keystone XL decision, and transfer that authority to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Last week, Rep. Lee Terry (R—Inbred) threatened to attach this bill to the payroll tax holiday package that’s slo-o-o-owly wending its way through Congress.

And now Obama has pledged to veto the Republicans’ poison-pill attempt to ram the Keystone XL pipeline up America’s butt.  Obama said:

“Any effort to try to tie Keystone to the payroll tax cut I will reject.  If the payroll tax cut  is attached to a whole bunch of extraneous issues, then it’s not something that I’m going to accept.”

You go Guy.  Keep standing up to the Republican sleazebags.

Obama Delays Approval of Keystone XL Pipeline

I was hoping for a flat-out DISapproval of the Keystone XL pipeline.  But this delay is better than nothing.  The Obama Administration is “delaying” approval for the purpose of finding a different route for transporting tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas.

What “different” route would be better?  Apparently the people of (mostly Republican) Nebraska screamed too loudly; something about their aquifer being jeopardized by a massive oil pipeline running through it.  So there’s, what, a different region of the country where the people WON’T care that their water supply and their surrounding environment would be devastated by a tar sands oil spill?  Good luck with that.

NIMBY means “somebody else’s back yard.”  And this “somebody else” will also scream NIMBY.  And the search continues.

If you like massive oil spills in Alaskan waters and the Gulf of Mexico, you’ll love the Keystone XL pipeline.  (More information on the Keystone XL pipeline here.)

This delay in approval will make the Keystone XL pipeline a major campaign issue for the 2012 election.  It’ll come down to which side has a better PR campaign:  the “Drill Here Drill Now” inbreds or the rest of the population whose IQs are HIGHER than their shoe sizes.

Grassroots Organizations in Favor of Massive Oil Pipeline

The Keystone XL is a massive pipeline project that, if approved, will run from Canadian tar sands mining sites to oil refineries in Texas. Treehuggers are whining about the “environmental impact” or something or other.

In response, thousands of everyday Real Americans have erupted into spontaneous grassroots activism on behalf of oil company profits. Nebraska Energy Forum and Partnership to Fuel America are just two of these grassroots organizations.

With a little help from the oil industry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, respectively, these two groups of just-plain-folks hardworking Americans will make sure the Keystone XL pipeline doesn’t get derailed by a bunch of socialist bureaucrats.

The Keystone XL would go through Nebraska and jeopardize the state’s largest aquifer. Nebraska’s Republican governor, both senators and a Republican representative are all opposed to this pipeline and are urging the Obama Administration to halt the project.

Uh oh — looks like Big Oil and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have their work cut out for them. They might need to create a few more of those grassroots organizations and start cranking out a lot more spontaneous demonstrations.

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Q. What’s the difference between Mississippi in the 1950s and Wisconsin in 2011?

A. Sixty years; 919 miles.

Wisconsin’s new Son of Jim Crow voting law is getting more blatant all the time. It wasn’t enough to require everyone to show a photo ID before they can vote. They also closed a bunch of DMV offices — which is where you have to go to get the required photo ID — that happened to be located in low income neighborhoods.

Now they’re trying to extort money out of the citizens who go to the DMV to get their (supposedly free) photo ID card. Wisconsin DMV officials have received a memo from Steve Krieser, executive secretary of the Department of Transportation:

“While you should certainly help customers who come in asking for a free ID to check the appropriate box, you should refrain from offering the free version to customers who do not ask for it.”

This used to be called a poll tax.