[kingu]

"The State Department has decided the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interests of the United States. I agree with that decision," the president said, brushing off Keystone's potential impact on the economy and on North American energy security and saying the entire issue has been overblown and has occupied an "inflated role in our political discourse" over the past seven years.

The state department has decided that the pipeline won't serve the political interest of the president, and then made a whole lot of assumptions which the state department is absolutely unqualified to make or measure.

But hey, here's another gift to the next president: No need for department of energy, department of commerce, department of labor - it is all able to be handled easily by the gifted state department who can absolutely miss an Egyptian coup, bungle embassy security, reset Russian relations to near cold war levels, etc.

[smartyaz]