Sancho Panza
SooperMexican
4/19/2014
…What you won’t hear about in mainstream media is how Billionaire Tom Steyer drove the decision by promising to spend $100 million to help Democrats in the midterm election who help defeat the project…
…With the decision pushed back probably past the election, this allows the Democrats to be for or against the decision depending on their election chances and how badly they need Steyer’s support. Given that a majority of Americans want the project to go through, this is good news for vulnerable Democrats. Meanwhile, American jobs suffer, and whatever economic impact the project might have had on Russia is ignored for the sake of Obama’s political gain.
Read the entire article at Soopermexican.
Update: Krauthammer Calls Most Recent Keystone Delay A ‘Spit In the Eye To Canada’ (video)
…By way of comparison, that’s about the length of time it took the United States to build the Hoover Dam. It took four years to defeat Japan and Germany in World War II, the Civil War lasted just under four years, and it took just thirteen-and-a-half months to build the Empire State Building.
As much as the President talks a great game about wanting more infrastructure projects to quell our national economic emergency, it’s surprising that delaying this pipeline is such a priority of his.
