Joel B. Pollak
Big Government
1/25/2012
This morning, Rep. Jan Schakowsky appeared on the Don Wade and Roma show on WLS-AM Chicago to comment on President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. Schakowsky praised the president’s green energy initiatives, claiming that the (recalled) Chevy Volt “is doing pretty well” and defending Obama’s failed investment in Solyndra.
When the hosts asked her to defend President Obama’s decision to block the development of the Keystone pipeline, Schakowsky did not dispute that the project would create jobs, but denied that these jobs were significant:
Twenty thousand jobs is really not that many jobs and investing in green technologies will produce that and more. But I’ll tell you what, you know it seems to me that the Republicans would rather have an issue than a pipeline.
When the hosts pointed out that Schakowsky’s union allies support the pipeline, she was speechless…
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If Jan wanted an idea of the impact the pipeline and 20,000 jobs would have for working families she should have listened to the call from Dennis to Rush Limbaugh.
Related: Schakowsky to Democrats: Vote for Obama So We Can Pass Single-Payer Health Care After November
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