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President Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline
Verge ^ | 2-24-2015 | Kwame Opam

Posted on 02/24/2015 12:38:37 PM PST by tcrlaf

Nearly two weeks after Congress approved the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, President Obama has officially vetoed the bill calling for its construction. The decision follows a clear statement from the White House last month saying the president would not sign the bill into law if Congress, currently controlled by Republican lawmakers, passed it.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1; canada; fracking; keystone; keystonexl; obama; obamaveto; opec; shovelready; veto
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This is going to cost Indiana 7,000 decent-paying potential jobs.

HOPEY CHANGEY!!!! Obama really likes those Shovel-Ready jobs, right??

1 posted on 02/24/2015 12:38:37 PM PST by tcrlaf
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I’m soooooooooooooooooo shocked.


2 posted on 02/24/2015 12:39:43 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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Pass a 3XL pipeline bill.


3 posted on 02/24/2015 12:40:38 PM PST by Paladin2
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Where’s the Indiana connection?


4 posted on 02/24/2015 12:40:44 PM PST by jaydubya2
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He has made Warren Buffett very happy, while tricking the enviro-Nazis that he did it for them. And the union thugs are too dumb to know what happened to their jobs. Mullah Baraq wins again!


5 posted on 02/24/2015 12:41:39 PM PST by clintonh8r (CHRISTIAN LIVES MATTER!!!!)
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Well, there goes flappy ears showing us all that he hates America and wishes us to be dependent on everyone else for oil, and that he is for jobs for everywhere else BUT here.


6 posted on 02/24/2015 12:42:12 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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That makes the demonicrat party officially the party of economic stagnation.

The Democrat Party hates jobs.

The Democrat Party creates unemployment.

The Democrat Party is against the working class.

Own it, democrats!


7 posted on 02/24/2015 12:42:39 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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8 posted on 02/24/2015 12:43:14 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: jaydubya2

Indian steel plants had the contracts for the pipe and support structures.


9 posted on 02/24/2015 12:43:25 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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The unions didn’t need those 20,000 good paying jobs.

Pray America is waking


10 posted on 02/24/2015 12:43:34 PM PST by bray (Palin/Cruz to the WH)
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To: tcrlaf

link doesn’t work for me.


11 posted on 02/24/2015 12:43:49 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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The unions wanted this passed....they are going to be pissed at him....he sided with the evironuts...uh oh.


12 posted on 02/24/2015 12:43:51 PM PST by Dog (..."I'm just a cook...")
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Yep, clearly he hates American exceptionalism, i.e. low unemployment and energy independence.


13 posted on 02/24/2015 12:44:14 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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All of those expensive pipeline environmental studies were all just BO BS because he never intended to allow construction. He should be forced to pay for all the wasted money.


14 posted on 02/24/2015 12:44:37 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: tcrlaf; mickie; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner; seekthetruth; seenenuf; M Kehoe; magnum force 1; ...
Bring it up for a veto over-ride, even if it fails.

Let's get the America-haters on both sides on record.

Leni

16 posted on 02/24/2015 12:46:06 PM PST by MinuteGal
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Yeah! More of these on the way!

17 posted on 02/24/2015 12:46:25 PM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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The Quebec incident, right?


18 posted on 02/24/2015 12:47:01 PM PST by dfwgator
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Only 4 votes shy of an override.


19 posted on 02/24/2015 12:47:12 PM PST by what's up
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Hey, America...


20 posted on 02/24/2015 12:47:58 PM PST by SparkyBass
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