Kerry: I’m approaching the Keystone XL pipeline with a totally blank slate

Hotair ^ | March 13 | ERIKA JOHNSEN

[Hojczyk]

During a hearing on the State Department’s 2015 budget, Ms. Landrieu, a Democrat who has been a strong pipeline proponent and faces a tough re-election fight this year, pressed Mr. Kerry to approve the project, which would carry crude from Canada’s oil sands and from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale Formation to Gulf Coast refineries.

Ms. Landrieu, the new chairwoman of the Senate Energy Committee, said, “Canada is our closest, strongest trading partner,” and “a majority of American people” support Keystone. “It is hard for me to understand why there are still questions about whether building this pipeline is in our national interest,” she said.

Mr. Kerry, who is currently reviewing whether the pipeline is in the national interest, assured Ms. Landrieu that he is looking at the issue objectively.

“I understand it’s on a lot of people’s minds, a mean a lot of people’s,” said Mr. Kerry, who noted that he has to review public comments along with his department’s lengthy environmental impact report and must “get feedback from eight different agencies.”

“So I’m not at liberty to go into my thinking at this point,” he said, adding, that he is approaching the matter “tabula rasa.”

[ConorMacNessa]

Not a totally "blank" brain - he is "Cerveau De Merde."

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[BitWielder1]

Bull. He already knows the conclusion he will come to and facts be damned.

[AlexW]

“5 years of studying it and thinking about it”
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Good grief, there are numerous pipelines crisscrossing the US
in all directions, many carrying for more dangerous natural gas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USgas.jpg
What is the big deal over one that will carry crude oil?
Yes, I know, it is nothing but politics, but what is their REAL reason?

[Caipirabob]

To match his blank, inbred, communist indoctrinated mind.

[Kackikat]

And I thought that was how Kerry approached everything...’with a blank slate’...”Unfit To Command”, yet he gave an ultimatum to Russia about troops lined up to go into the Ukraine. oy vey!

[bigbob]

Isn’t he busy saving the free world from Russia or something?

[SunkenCiv]

A new picture for the dictionary entry “blank slate”.

Thanks Hojczyk.

[shove_it]

Yet another gem from the Secretary of Statements.

[Kevin in California]

[buffaloguy]

I wonder how that phrase sounds in Russian.

[Dagnabitt]

Five years in, it's time for the next logical step:

Appoint a bipartisan blue ribbon commission.

[Political Junkie Too]

A totally blank slate is seared... seared into his brain.

-PJ

[DannyTN]

"Yes, I know, it is nothing but politics, but what is their REAL reason?"

Best I can tell, is they are anti-industry and anti-oil. They don't want us to have cheap oil. They want the price sky high so we have to adopt 3rd world standards of living. I don't think they've thought it through.

[MeshugeMikey]

drawing a blank is the only thing john kerry knows much of anything about

[o-n-money]

Doesn’t he read newspapers?

[Graewoulf]

” - - - he said, adding, that he is approaching the matter “tabula rasa.” - - - “

Isn’t that Haaaaaaaaaaaavud-speak for “I have no idea what I’m doing?”

[elpadre]

“tabula rasa.”

a perfect description of John Kerry - a blank slate.

[Impy]

“It is hard for me to understand why there are still questions about whether building this pipeline is in our national interest,” she said.

Questions that come from leftist democrats. All the move reason to for Louisiana to vote your @ss out, Mary. It's the best thing you could do for the pipeline, lose.

[TigersEye]

If he only had a brain!

[MeshugeMikey]

but kerry as told PUTIN that he has until Monday.....to OBEY the great leader..

could it be that theres no THERE THERE at all...with this guy??