I didn’t find it particularly deficient. I understood you.
Your points about the gas pipeline were informative and reasoned.
Your point about the Cruz/Bush relationship to 187 was off. I did not state or infer they acted to block it. They were five years after it’s demise in 1999.
The thing I objected to was the crafting of a statement saying 187 was wrongheaded and something they disagreed with.
That belief would be 180 degrees off point as it related to a conservative view, was a betrayal of the people who bucked the system to pass it, and contrary to a states right to enact laws to protect it’s populace from a lack of federal action to protect the states themselves from invasion.
That would be a direct conflict with Article Four Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, the president’s duty to protect states from invasion.
Got it. The time line slipped by me...
Looking, a pipeline (or wire) that is deemed as being part of a public utility can use eminent domain to get the right of way (before Kelo) as a last resort.