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" …it conflicts with executive branch procedures for considering whether such projects are in the national interest."
Lord, I hope they’re not stupid enough to frame it that way. For fuck’s sake, put it in terms that the low-information voters will understand. Keystone would create fewer than 50 full-time jobs. It wouldn’t bring a single drop of gasoline or heating oil to U.S. customers. If it spilled, it would pollute the supply of fresh water for drinking and for agriculture for a large chunk of the upper Midwest.
This is not complicated.
I would think that comes later, after the final environmental review by the State Department, when, I hope President Obama decides against it. This episode is a separation of powers thingy and it might be better to treat it entirely that way at this point.
You know that and I know that. But most voters will think that Obama is vetoing a “jobs bill.” The G.O.P. lies, and gets away with it.