Pipe Dream
Posted by Stilton Jarlsberg at Hope n’ Change
Only a few short weeks ago, a wee-wee’d up Barack Obama called a joint session of congress, told them that he had a plan for creating jobs, and demanded loudly (and repeatedly) that they “pass it now!”
Which is why it’s more than a little jaw-dropping that this same president has taken a look at a plan to create one million new high-paying jobs which wouldn’t cost taxpayers a penny…and decided to “pass on it now.”
The Keystone XL project would build a pipeline to bring oil to the United States from lovable, maple-syrup distilling, beaver-pelt wearing Canada instead of sending our oil money to the “Death to America” lunatics in the Middle East… thereby giving us more of that “energy independence” that Mr. Obama usually can’t shut up about, while creating jobs out the wazoo.
But despite the president’s usual dedication to “the fierce urgency of now,” he’s decided to postpone a decision on the pipeline until after the next election…for fear of losing the votes of environmentalists who are terrified of long pipes for reasons only their Freudian psychoanalysts can understand.
And he’s softened the blow by implying that Americans really wouldn’t be up to the job of building the pipeline anyway…recently referring to us as soft, lazy, and lacking in the will and imagination to tackle “big jobs.”
Unfortunately, Canada can’t afford to wait to sell their oil…and so they’re preparing to sell it to China instead. Which will be disastrous for the environment that Mr. Obama claims to be so concerned about…and probably disastrous for the United States since China is devoting a lot of their energy use these days to building up their military.
But the job of the president is to make tough decisions, and Obama has decided that his re-election is far more important than jobs, energy, or national security.
And unsurprisingly, he didn’t find it a tough decision at all.
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