Posted on 05/12/2014 4:18:02 PM PDT by lbryce
A bipartisan Senate effort to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline collapsed Monday making it unlikely a politically potent vote on the project will take place before November’s midterm election.
A vote on Keystone was tied to the fate of an unrelated energy efficiency bill that has support in both parties. But that measure failed to get the 60 votes it needed to move forward after getting bogged down in partisan fighting over whether GOP amendments would be allowed.
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The GOP is playing to win.
This is just disinformation and cover.
This man speaks the truth. In the long list of interests, we are last in line.
Buffet's billions are safe, either way.
BTW, if Obama and Buffet are such buddies, why is the Obama regime trying its damndest to shut down the very oil production filling those rail cars? There has been an ongoing attempt from sandbagging on Federal Lease drilling and location construction permits, to attacking hydraulic fracturing (from a few angles, all unwarranted), to now the anti-rail campaign, and as we are seeing here, a push to slow down oil development in ND and elsewhere, even as the infrastructure to support it is being completed. The Obama administration has been quietly waging war on the oil and gas industry from day one.
Gen. Jubilation T Cornpone and the rest of that bunch in the RNC have been doing a fabulous job of throwing elections the past few cycles. It makes you wonder whose side they are on...(besides their own).
It is a common gambit on the Hill to posture by showing support for doomed legislation that favors what the constituents want. That way anyone can point to a vote in the campaign as if there actually was a snowball’s chance in hell of the bill passing, and bidness as usual continues—at our expense, and often to our mutual detriment.
I remember during the talk radio boom back in 1994. Mike Reagan would spend scads of time reading bill numbers and telling people to call their representatives. Talk about Don Quixote. It was a Dem congress and Clinton was president.
Yes, but if you paid attention, you knew what they were up to, and it was interesting to see which democrats got a pass to vote against what for the home district’s consumption.
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