Administration Warm to Pipeline Compromise Proposal

A proposal to build the US portion of the Keystone Pipeline without connecting it to the Canadian source of oil may be a compromise the Obama Administration can approve.

“The President’s main objection has always been his opposition to increasing the supply of fossil fuels in America,” said Press Secretary Jay Carney. “Building a pipeline that doesn’t connect to any source of oil seems like a ‘win-win’ solution. We could create thousands of jobs constructing the pipeline without incurring the negative environmental impacts of actually transporting, refining, and distributing any gasoline.”

Obama’s Presidential Campaign adviser, David Axelrod, characterized the construction of a line that will never be used as “a stroke of genius. The unions will be happy because they’ll get jobs building the line. The environmentalists will be happy because the President will still block the cross-border connection to Canadian oil sources. This compromise means that votes from both these groups will go solidly for the President.”

Axelrod brushed aside criticism that building a pipeline that won’t be used might be seen as wasteful. “The pipeline will be built underground,” he pointed out. “It won’t be seen as anything. Meanwhile, union workers will be bringing home paychecks. The economy will be stimulated. The President will be reelected.”

The compromise was likened to the strategy used by FDR in winning three reelection campaigns. “The spend, spend, spend and elect, elect, elect approach is a tried and true strategy,” Axelrod bragged. “Voters aren’t thinking about the long term. They’re not competent to assess the functionality of how taxes are spent. As long as the President can be seen to be doing something, anything, he’ll win them over.”

http://azconservative.org/2012/01/21/georgia-judge-refuses-to-accept-obamas-sovereign-immunity/

Hilarious! Seems on topic is a longish comment I just did at hotair. Here’s a replay here:

Early on, leaders of the fledgling environut movement openly expressed their true goals, not thinking their statements would ever be repeated by the opposition. Now they’ve clammed up, but their radical goal remains:
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth.” -John Holdren (1973), Obama’s Science Czar

It’s no accident that when the price of gas was rising rapidly, O said only that he preferred that it rise more slowly. They -want- energy prices to rise, to “necessarily skyrocket.” And other than what even they know is a fanciful diversion (green energy), they are adamantly against increasing energy supplies, period. They are trying to engineer a siege — an energy siege — of their own people!
The global warming [fabrication] was the perfect vehicle to work to bring their dream to fruition. They proposed 80% CO2 cuts by 2050; you talk about taking a wrecking ball to civilization. This radical proposal was -approved- in the House! We were that close to succumbing to the leftist environut agenda!
That’s why it is so upsetting to us when conservatives tow the liberal environut line. Like the “conservative” Michael Gerson. Or, in particular, the inexplicable Huntsman. Or the other R candidates (except Santorum!, Paul) who seem to be “behind the times” as far as representing their own R voters. (Pew poll: only 19% of Rs believe in AGW.)
Rebuttal is simple. There is nothing wrong with the climate, and CO2 has nothing to do with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg

Actually, the fact that they are talking about starting the US portion just tells me they know that, by the time the front-end work is done on the project, Obama is going to be gone.

So why get your pants in a twist over someone who is going to be a bad memory by the time you break ground a few months from now?

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