“Way back at the beginning of this Byron York predicted that Barry would cave and throw his Enviro friends under the bus sometime before the election.”
Nope. This is the perfect storm for Obama.
1. He approves the new pipeline. With it he announces he has done his due diligence and with the approval of the envirowhackos this is the best route. The Republicans were wrong.
2. The MSM gleefully uses the new narrative to promote how courageous the President was in making this decision.
3. The administration announces that the Republican effort would have created only 20,000 jobs. Under Obama’s plan, the job count will be somewhere around 2,000,000 jobs.
4. Again the MSM will use the narrative to show that Obama is creating jobs where the Republicans were killing them.
Obama is now just waiting on the SCOTUS decision about Obamacare. Based on the decision, Obama can position Obamacare and the pipeline in such a way to guarantee re-election.
Taken from, Rules for Radicals, pages 37-54.