“Stragegically, this is probably a good thing for our side at this point.”
Yea like breaking someone’s hand with your face. At least
we will have nice bike paths and sidewalks to walk to work
on because, thanks to the strategic brilliance of the Republicans, we won’t be able to afford the gas and electricity
to charge/fuel our cars.
Great strategy, great strategy.
If you want to make the point that Republicans suck at negotiating, I’d sure agree, but I’ve come to expect that.
Given that they suck, my point is that giving up the Keystone mandate helps us more than it hurts us.
If Obama is reelected, he’ll find a way to get around the mandate anyway. He would have dragged his feet until after the election with procedural manuevering, and if reelected, he would find a way to stop it or delay it. Any political points by forcing a mandate that would be ignored would be trumped by the points that can be gained by it remaining as an election issue - assuming Romney and Republicans running for election are smart enough to use it as an issue.
I’m willing to wait six months to start Keystone under Romney when the alternative is a hollow mandate under Obama that results in Keystone never happening.