OK, for ten points, boys and girls, what's wrong with this picture?
It must NOT be built because it will cause a decrease in food stamps and unemployment. Those must be preserved at all costs to ensure the sheeple are kept subservient to the messyiah.
Building a movement by misleading people is a strange choice.
It is the key choice of Leftists. It is their main strategy. The entire “progressive movement is built on this idea. If they did not have to mislead people, democracy would work, the Constitution would not have to be torn down, and the idea that we would need experts to make every decision for us would not be required.
However, if people are too stupid and ignorant to make their own decisions, then you *must* mislead them.
Obama will finally approve this like he’s doing us a big favor....It should have been approved years ago.
Anybody with an ant's brain knew the pipeline was going to be built; it was either going west or south, but in no reality was that oil just going to stay in the ground.
Warren Buffet owns the trains and is a contributor. Reason enough for the delay.
Building a movement by misleading people is a strange choice.
And yet Chait seems incapable of grasping the fact that building a movement by misleading people is the essence of how today's Democrat Party works.
The false choice, the misleading straw-man argument, and the big lie are all hallmarks of 'the Obama way' and the Democrat talking points that parrot his words.
Exactly what is so hard about that for Chait to grasp?
Are united states suppliers able to add their oil/gas to the pipeline? is this just a straight canada to us port for export passthrough?
ON
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And that oil will be replaced, as it presently is, by oil brought in by ship. If environmental concerns matter at all, replacing the parade of tanker ships crossing the high seas full of oil would be a high priority.
But since environmentalists and a goodly number of our politicians are OPEC flacks, it is the reverse. Protecting that parade of ships from a competing pipeline becomes job one.
NIMBYs are concerned about their “property values,” and few local, yocal oil-connected businesses in the U.S.A don’t want the extra competition. But if the pipeline goes through, your fuel prices will go down.