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Obama Digs In: 'Personally Lobbying Democrats to Reject' Keystone Pipeline (Senate to Vote Today)
The Weekly Standard ^ | March 8, 2012 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 03/08/2012 8:06:13 AM PST by katieanna

President Obama is digging in on the Keystone XL pipeline. He is "personally lobbying Democrats to reject an amendment calling for its construction," Politico reports.

The White House lobbying effort, including phone calls from the president to Democrats, signals that the vote could be close when it heads to the floor Thursday. The president is trying to defeat an amendment that would give election-year fodder to his Republican critics who have accused him of blocking a job-creating energy project at a time of high gas prices.

The amendment, proposed by Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), states that Obama would have no role in such cross-border permitting decisions since, in this case, the pipeline would originate in Canada. The measure would need 60 votes to pass, and Obama has already lost two Democrats who back the proposal - Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Mary Landrieu - and is at risk of losing more moderates and vulnerable Democrats.

The Keystone XL pipeline would create an estimated 20,000 jobs and, likely, drive down the price of gasoline in the long run. It would seem to be a good move at a time of high unemployment and high gas prices.

And, in fact, most Americans like the idea of the Keystone pipeline. According to a November poll, of likely U.S. voters, 60 percent "at least somewhat favor building the pipeline which President Obama has delayed until at least 2013 because of environmental concerns."


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhofascism; elections; hoeven; keystone; keystonepipeline; keystonexl; nobama2012; obama; obamatruthfile; oil
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To: katieanna

I don’t know. Everyone in congress seems to have this fear of going against the King.


21 posted on 03/08/2012 8:41:06 AM PST by jersey117 (The Stepford Media should be sued for malpractice)
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To: jersey117

“I don’t know. Everyone in congress seems to have this fear of going against the King.”

Not really. Why do you think he caved on the Bush tax cuts year before last? Because, he did not have support to let them expire. Nelson (Ne) breaks from him all the time.


22 posted on 03/08/2012 8:43:11 AM PST by katieanna
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To: katieanna

Translation:

Obama wants to lose the White House.

The Dems want to lose the Senate.

This is like nailing your own foot to the floor when a fire breaks out.


23 posted on 03/08/2012 8:43:47 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
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To: katieanna

The republicans in the senate need to bring up this amendment up to vote every week now up thru the election. This will be easy to do as gas prices go up every week. Let the jackass dems vote this down every week as gas approaches $5 and unemployment goes up.


24 posted on 03/08/2012 8:45:31 AM PST by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: Bitsy

> 2. She recently voted against the bill which would exclude
> Catholic hospitals from abortion/contraception (She is
> Catholic, supposedly)

If that is true, she should have been IMMEDIATELY and very PUBLICLY EXCOMMUNICATED, along with every other “Catholic” or “Christian” that supports *ANY* pro-abortion measure.

But American churches, Evangelical as well as Catholic, are too gutless to discharge their Biblical responsibilities.


25 posted on 03/08/2012 8:47:57 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: katieanna

Go for it, Barry. Make our day.
The only thing I’d like better than seeing Senate Dems
up in November kill this is seeing you veto it.


26 posted on 03/08/2012 8:51:06 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: katieanna

Interesting story on Obama thugs wanting Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper gone. Spooky dude Soros involved.

Obama working on the Fundamental Transformation of Canada

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/45109?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=1c51000686-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email


27 posted on 03/08/2012 8:58:48 AM PST by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: Logical me

If the Democrats in the senate do not wake up . . . they’re going to find their asses out of office in November!


28 posted on 03/08/2012 9:03:52 AM PST by rhubarbk
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To: OafOfOffice

Yeah but when Canada is already out of the Obama recession I doubt that will happen.


29 posted on 03/08/2012 9:03:52 AM PST by scooby321
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To: katieanna

An interesting side note to the battle over the Keystone pipeline is that China is a major partner in the Canadian oil project, the same Chinese off-shore (outside China) oil company owns one third of Chesapeake Energy, the company that the Sierra Club is partnering with.

So, the Sierra Club made themselves partners with the Chinese that are pushing for the Keystone pipeline.


30 posted on 03/08/2012 9:08:35 AM PST by Eva
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To: katieanna; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; ...


The Keystone XL pipeline would create an estimated 20,000 jobs and, likely, drive down the price of gasoline in the long run. It would seem to be a good move at a time of high unemployment and high gas prices.

but, 0bama is lobbying to raise gas prices and stop job growth!



31 posted on 03/08/2012 9:22:11 AM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: katieanna

If you want to know why the Keystone Pipeline has been vetoed, here is the reason.

Venezuela has an enormous deposit of heavy sour crude that is nearly identical to the Alberta tar sands. The US oil refineries are designed especially for this heavy oil because Venezuela is nearby and before Chavez, it was politically stable.

The majority of the worlds oil refineries are designed for Arabian Light, not Venezuelan Heavy.

The Keystone pipeline would have replaced the Venezuelan oil with Canadian oil. Also the Venezuelan oil would be hard to refine and would have to be shipped a long distance if the Canadian oil displaced it and as a result, undesireable.

The veto of the Keystone pipline is to keep Chavez in power.

from http://oilsands.infomine.com/countries/

” Located in eastern Venezuela, north of the Orinoco River, the Orinoco Oil Belt is of a similar geographic extent as that of the Canadian oil sands. The deposits are not bitumen per se but extra-heavy oil. (Natural bitumen and extra-heavy oil are closely related types of petroleum, differing from each other only in the degree by which they have been degraded from the original crude oil by bacteria and erosion.) “


32 posted on 03/08/2012 9:22:39 AM PST by staytrue
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To: Westbrook

But American churches, Evangelical as well as Catholic, are too gutless to discharge their Biblical responsibilities.

You said it all. Where is her parish priest? Her Bishop? Pelosi’s parish priest/bishop? I hear that in some parts of the country some are updating the 10 Commandments and of course the age old belief the bible is a book mainly of stories. Such beliefs are a scourge. Gutless priests/bishops should have excommunicated Pelosi and Landrieu long ago along with other Catholic who believe in abortion but you said it - gutless.


33 posted on 03/08/2012 9:23:27 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: scooby321

not to mention there is nothing Canadians hate more than snooty, elitist foreigners sticking their noses into Canada’s business.


34 posted on 03/08/2012 9:24:11 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Thanks Army Air Corps

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35 posted on 03/08/2012 9:24:43 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: jersey117
And every single democrat senator will dig in with him - including Manchin and Landrieu.

To Landrieu’s peril, I hope. She knows her constituents want Oil drilling - it is the life blood of certain parts of Louisiana. She doesn't represent the people of Louisiana and that is a fact! I think she is up for re-election in 2014 and I hope that no amount of money can save her this time.

36 posted on 03/08/2012 9:35:17 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: Bitsy
She is Catholic, supposedly
You can not be "pro-choice" (i.e. for abortion) and Catholic.
And the sooner the Catholic Catholic starts excommunicating these scumbags, the better.
37 posted on 03/08/2012 9:37:12 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Bitsy

She will NOT run in 2014...


38 posted on 03/08/2012 9:37:34 AM PST by ken5050 (The ONLY reason to support Mitt: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will appear at the WH each Christmas)
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To: Bitsy

BTW..you also have a very interestering congressional primiary coming up..incumbents Landy ( a really good guy) can send Boustany home..


39 posted on 03/08/2012 9:39:01 AM PST by ken5050 (The ONLY reason to support Mitt: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will appear at the WH each Christmas)
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To: jersey117

Manchin needs to switch his Party affiliation. He votes with republicans more than Democrats.


40 posted on 03/08/2012 9:43:50 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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