…despite widespread public support for the project, which would move the US toward North American energy independence while creating over 20,000 jobs (not including any as yet unimagined ancillary jobs that the free market is likely to “invent” around such a large-scale undertaking):
Gene Sperling the National Economic Council Director told CNN on Sunday that experts at the State Department are warning that forcing an answer on the XL within 60 days will prevent them from doing “serious environmental and health reviews, that that would (not) be enough time and would make it almost certainly impossible to extend the permit.”
This is, of course, complete and utter bullshit — the Obama State Department is looking to appease the environmental extremist groups that make up a vocal portion of the progressive base, which is why they’ve been studiously creating roadblocks for the project, hoping they can somehow make it through a re-election cycle successfully before scuttling the whole endeavor; recall, Obama has stated explicitly that he wants energy costs to rise — how else, after all, can he “nudge” the masses into giving up their cars, or moving into urban centers, reducing exurban “sprawl” and creating a refined, centrally-planned Europeanized country where the people rely on high speed rail and mass transit and learn to live in smaller quarters, a move that would helpfully differentiate the deserving administrative classes and the Old Money gentry from the revolting nouveau riche and a boorish so-called American Dream that allows people like Jedd and Jethro Clampett potentially to mingle with the finer types.
This President is beholden to the people and “movements” that essentially invented him. He is a true ideologue.
Jobs, or payroll tax cuts — these things simply don’t matter to him outside of their usefulness as a means to an end. Obama’s goal is to get re-elected anyway he can, and once he does, all bets are off: the “fundamental transformation” of the US will be completed, and Obama will have served the purpose for which his leftist puppet masters built him. For his part, Obama gets what he most craves from the deal: public recognition and adulation from the rank-and-file Left as the Historic movement progressive who was able to overthrow the system from within, all of which he was able to do without ever really having earned a single thing (and even as the real players on the Left silently take comfort in having so effectively used their Manchurian-style empty-suit to finish the “revolution” they began in earnest so long ago).
I know. Such wild and bombastic utterances are entirely unhelpful, pushing away as they will more sane and sensible moderates (who will perhaps even embrace Obama and his destruction of the economy, the job market, the housing market, etc., in reaction to such crazed descriptions of his ideological purpose and allegiances); and yet I’m going to go for it anyway.
Because frankly, the status quo GOP hacks and their online sycophants and advocates? Are every bit as pernicious as the left — who, it should be said, at least have the good grace to let us know they’re not on the side of individual sovereignty, liberty, or smaller government.
Right on time, my local (Atlanta) NPR station did an assessment of how many jobs would be created by the Keystone XL project. Bottom line: none.
And since we’re all dead in the long term, why bother with anything.
I’ll take my propaganda with a shot of existential despair. Please.
America’s hillbilly whore secretary of state will do whatever she thinks will help her plant her ass in the oval office, and the National Soros Radio media will definitely have her back.
Sperling just wants to have his cake and eat yours too by having the pipeline killed but having it blamed on his opponents. And some people are just lapping this bullshit up.
Right on time, my local (Atlanta) NPR station did an assessment of how many jobs would be created by the Keystone XL project. Bottom line: none.
Shit — don’t show that to the Vikings. They’ve been running wall-to-wall ads claiming that building the Purple Palace will produce so many jobs that we’ll be poaching warm bodies from the Bakken oilfields. All they need is a billion dollars, and everything will be perfect!
Dick Hartpoolian was just on the newz claiming, rather emphatically, that WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!! if “they” don’t do more environmental impact studies before rushing into building the pipeline.
I’ve spoken to a real life reader of the Protein Wisdom and he feels you go a bit off the rails after the part about “he wants energy costs to rise.”
I told him I think it suffices to say that the obamawhores are very very dogmatic … pipelines are very very practical and bumble and crew are not very practical in real life.
This real life reader of Protein Wisdom disagrees that any rails were departed from.
Thor doesn’t count as a reader. He interacts on a more bodily essence level with text.
And yet this person doesn’t have the sack to say so directly?
Obama has SAID he wants energy costs to rise. That it’s necessary that they do. To change the culture in the US. Where we think cheap energy is something we’re entitled to, while meanwhile the whole planet is choking on our exhalation gases.
And besides. I know who this guy is, who trained him, how he was trained, how his rise was orchestrated, and what his handlers expect from him in office. Some real life readers may not agree. But that’s because some real life readers are likely still too afraid of being thought one of those fringie extremist types.
I don’t much give a fuck what people call me — particularly people who are afraid to call a Marxist in the midst of a coup a Marxist in the midst of a coup.
What was it I heard on the radio today? Something like we have around 600, 650 thousand miles of pipeline crisscrossing the country. Yet somehow we haven’t died.
You know what else Obama gets? Cash. Lots and lots of campaign contributions from both sides as they seek to
buy his goodwillinfluence his thinking.Obama has SAID he wants energy costs to rise.
yeah it was the stuff *after* that part
So the “off the rails” stuff is this, then:
Gotcha.
Of course, I’d have to do a focus group test before I believed you. It’s very important to me that I consult the consensus before I venture an opinion that might make me seem crazy. Very important.
I just thought it was interesting cause you said this
I know. Such wild and bombastic utterances are entirely unhelpful, pushing away as they will more sane and sensible moderates (who will perhaps even embrace Obama and his destruction of the economy, the job market, the housing market, etc., in reaction to such crazed descriptions of his ideological purpose and allegiances); and yet I’m going to go for it anyway.
and then bam I get a message from a young urban libertarian-leaning professional from Chicago saying that they had found that part very off-putting
on a related note that’s kinda related I was reminiscing about this today
Had found what offputting? The truth?
Too bad. Rub some dirt on it.
I’m just reporting.
Me I been looking at swingsets for the one percenters.
these are so effing cool but I don’t understand how you mow
If I lived in Chicago, I’d find the truth off-putting too. And I’d get the hell out of Chicago.
I was once a young urban libertarian-leaning professional from Chicago.
Now I’m really more of a thirty-something sausage and beer enthusiast looking for a reasonably priced reloading kit for cheaper ammo.
I blame pw.
A black guy, an illegal alien, a muslim, and a communist walk into a bar.
The bartender asks, “What can I get you Mr. President?”
should be sung to this tune.
how you mow
professional rabbits?
Chicago, huh? The rest of Illinois is right to want them gone. Very little left there resembling America’s good days, apart from a few scant residuals.
Sounds like the kind of libertarian that leans toward blowing the disposable income on booze, blow and broads.
no actually he’s a very responsible newlywed contemplating a first home purchase and whose indulgences are in the odd craft beer or in the occasional wonderful meal what living in Chicago affords one the opportunity to have or in an evening at the theater with his lovely wife
One has to believe either: Obama is doing the best he can for the country, but is incompetent, or Obama is ruthlessly implementing transformational change on the country, as he promised.
Some people are too delicate to take the truth.
There is a third way, Lee. He believes that doing the latter is also doing the former, but yes, he’s incompetent. His lack of actual skillz may be our only hope. Imagine how screwed we’d be if he were effective.
Imagine what damage a Newt presidency could do.
pipelines in usa & canada
Oh my god, they’re everywhere!
That very thought has unsettled me repeatedly, leigh.
Me too, Pablo. Me too.
Poll: 60% favor building Keystone pipeline
Newt’s the only candidate Team R has stood up in my whole life what has a fucking clue about the media environment he operates in, and who’s shown a willingness to take them on… I’ll take that over a limp-wristed piece of shit catalog model like Wall Street Romney any day
but not twice on Sundays cause that’s pancake day
You asked.
People sell reloaders all the time on Tradio. You just have to listen closely and write down their number. Or call the radio station if you missed it.
I’d have to disagree with the incompetent thing Pablo. Obama has done more to advance the progressive agenda in his first two years than any progg before.
The really good ones make it look easy.
bumble only got as far as she did cause his obamawhore media katrina’d the socialists into a near super-majority
i hate when they do that
Thanks, Geoff and Leigh.
I’ll start reloading at some point. Definitely.