Boehner: House Will Likely Attach Keystone Approval to New Jobs Bill (Don't wimp out this time!)

abc ^ | 1/30/2012 | By Jake Tapper

[tobyhill]

Speaker John Boehner says that the House will try again to tie approval for the Keystone pipeline project to a new jobs bill being introduced next week.

“All options are on the table. If it’s not enacted before we take up the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, it’ll be part of it,” Boehner said of the Keystone project, which would extend an oil pipeline from Canada through the United States.

Boehner led an unsuccessful effort to attach approval of the Keystone project to the extension of the payroll tax cut in December, but had to back down after not securing Senate support.

The Obama administration declined approval for the pipeline extension after saying they did not have enough time to study the environmental impact, drawing criticism from conservatives who say the project would create needed jobs.

[TomGuy]

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Great

Another House bill that Reid can bog down in the Senate so Obama can run against an obstructionist do-nothing Congress.

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[Sacajaweau]

Let’s see how stupid Obama is!! Does he know there are Dems in congress??

[HiTech RedNeck]

The environmental “impact” of the pipe itself will be next to nothing. I think this is an attempt to tie globull warming into it.

[Prokopton]

Boehner led an unsuccessful effort to attach approval of the Keystone project to the extension of the payroll tax cut in December, but had to back down after not securing Senate support.

Boehner, you Crybaby wimp. You are (cringe) leader of the House, get the House to pass the right bills and not pass the wrong bills. Do your job!

I say this believing that the Crybaby is actually a Democrat plant. No one could go along with Obama's agenda as much as he does and be a Republican.

[ScottinVA]

Sure you will, Boehner.

Then, when Obama`s “media” turns up the heat and sets the narrative about how in the pocket of Big Oil the Repubs are, you will... on cue... cave.

I know not to get my hopes up anymore.

[massgopguy]

How dare the Do Nothing Republicans put jobs in a Jobs Bill!

[TLI]

Speaker John Boehner says that the House will try again to tie approval for the Keystone pipeline project to a new jobs bill being introduced next week.

“All options are on the table. If it’s not enacted before we take up the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, it’ll be part of it,” Boehner said of the Keystone project, which would extend an oil pipeline from Canada through the United States.

They should just keep pounding little bammy on this just like Newt did Clinton in the 1995-1996 government shutdowns.

The republicans brought the budget bill to Clinton three times before he would sign it.

According to Gingrich, positive impacts of the government shutdown included the balanced-budget deal in 1997 and the first four consecutive balanced budgets since the 1920s. In addition, he has stated that the first re-election of a Republican majority since 1928 was due in part to the Republican party's hardline on the budget.

Keep putting Keystone in bills (and in the news) till they break bammy.

Of course, little bammy will then take credit for improving the nation's oil supply...

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[tobyhill]

I'm all for this tactic. Make Reid and Obama tell the American people that they think blocking the pipeline is more important than extension of unemployment welfare and the not really tax cut for all.

If the House passes it then they need to tell the Senate to “take it or leave it but the GOP Controlled House has done their job”. Get in front of the TV immediately and make the Lame Stream Media report on it.

It's long past time the GOP stops being scared of their own shadow. If the MSM starts yelling about “bipartisanship” then tell them, to their face, that they weren't real concerned with “bipartisanship” when it came to Obamacare or non-recess recess appointments.

[Eva]

To the Obama administration, energy means alternative Green energy and infrastructure means Gateway projects, which are multi-modal transportation projects that are part of the Agenda 21 Wildlands project.

The Obama administration also seems to consider sub-bituminous coal from the Powder River Basin as alternative energy.

[Old Sarge]

YO, BOEHNER!

[crz]

Ya..thats it Bonehead. Run another one through so stinky Reid can bog it down. What you gonna do? Get in front of the cameras and cry about it?

How about this you worthless twit. No more funds for anything until these bills get voted on.

You worthless sucker Bonehead! You couldnt hold Gingriches undershorts as speaker.

[radioone]

By the time the Harry Reid gets done demonizing Boehner, because the pipeline will cause birth defects (or whatever lie is in vogue that week) he’ll cave.

[Sacajaweau]

What’s in the jobs bill? Legislation compromise ia aka blackmail.

[traditional1]

We don’t want no steenkin’ New Jobs Bill; we want Keystone Approval, and NO MORE SPENDING AND PAYOFFS TO UNIONS.

[TWhiteBear]

‘Then, when Obama`s “media” turns up the heat and sets the narrative about how in the pocket of Big Oil the Repubs are, you will... on cue... cave.’

That is what I think will happen. The Liberal Establishment Republicans lack any credibility. Their mascara has run into their pancake makeup and the failed Republican party is showing its real face.
The most pathetic Republican effort was the One Trillion dollar spending cut that went to a half trillion cut to one hundred billion that ended up an increase in spending of ten billion.
While the Republicans are revolting, I am amazed that they still find bigger fools to contribute to them.
TWB

[tobyhill]

The problem is that without attaching it to something then Reid and Obama will just reject it and no one will notice. It really doesn't have to cost much but it needs to have a proven record of being a real jobs bill, not a non-stimulus “stimulus”.

[tobyhill]

This is one time where I think the GOP won't cave. They got screwed when it came to Obama’s unconstitutional non-recess recess appointments and I think they are pissed about it. The GOP doesn't have to keep falling for the Lame Stream Media and Obama’s “bipatisanship” crap. The Rats have never been bipartisan in their existence so neither should the GOP. America doesn't want a party that negotiates away our future existence.

[Sam Gamgee]

I am disgusted by the pattern in the Republican House where they talk big, but in the end tuck tail and concede. If the GOP wants to play chicken they need to play it for keeps. Otherwise they play right into Obama’s hands.