Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Keystone pipeline votes, GOP pants on fire….


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.










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