They’re doing it right out in public. Shame on the
Republicans in Washington.
Last week the Senate voted on two Democrat-sponsored
amendments to the “green light for Keystone pipeline” bill, and killed both of
them.
Gee whiz, the Republicans are off message already, and their
two-year span of control has barely started.
Most of the GOP senators voted against Sen. Markey’s (D-MA)
proposal to prohibit exportation of petroleum products to be transported in the
pipeline. Aren’t the Keystone advocates claiming that the pipeline will boost
America’s energy resources? (The pipeline will carry Canadian tar sands stuff
to the Gulf coast in Texas….you think the refiners there are thinking about
selling to international customers who send their tankers to Texas?)
Most of the GOP senators voted against Sen. Franken’s (D-MN)
proposal to require that the pipeline must be built with American steel. Aren’t
the Keystone advocates claiming that the pipeline project is going to spew new
jobs all over the mid-West? (Double whammy here: the Canadian company that
wants to build the pipeline has already bought the steel for the project—from India—and
the realistic estimate is that the pipeline will create a few thousand temporary
jobs and a couple dozen permanent jobs).
Republican senators aren’t dumb.
I guess their real agenda is to shove the Keystone pipeline
up President Obama’s nose.
Meanwhile, the Republican-dominated Congress isn’t doing any
governing that would benefit you and me and most Americans.
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2015
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