Obama Admin. Rejects Keystone Pipeline; TransCanada Can Reapply After Finding Alternate Route; Updated

By Doug Powers  •  January 18, 2012 12:13 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

Hot off the wire from the Washington Post:

The Obama administration will announce this afternoon it is rejecting a Canadian firm’s application for a permit to build and operate a massive oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border, according to sources who have been briefed on the matter.

However the administration will allow TransCanada to reapply after it develops an alternate route through the sensitive habitat of Nebraska’s Sandhills. Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns will make the announcement, which comes in response to a congressionally-mandated deadline of Feb. 21 for action on the proposed Keystone pipeline.

In other words, the Obama State Department is allowing TransCanada to reapply after they find a route for the pipeline that avoids the delicate habitat where the endangered 2012 election lives.

Oh well, extending unemployment will create more jobs anyway according to the White House.

At this point, the “alternate route” for the Keystone project’s oil appears to lead to China.

Update: In a report released just yesterday, Obama’s own jobs council recommended increasing US energy independence in various ways, including pipelines:

President Obama’s jobs council called Tuesday for an “all-in approach” to energy policy that includes expanded oil-and-gas drilling as well as expediting energy projects like pipelines.

“[W]e should allow more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands,” states the year-end report released Tuesday by the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

The report does not specifically mention the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but it endorses moving forward quickly with projects that “deliver electricity and fuel,” including pipelines.

Update II: Obama’s statement is here. This part was interesting:

This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline, but the arbitrary nature of a deadline that prevented the State Department from gathering the information necessary to approve the project and protect the American people. I’m disappointed that Republicans in Congress forced this decision, but it does not change my Administration’s commitment to American-made energy that creates jobs and reduces our dependence on oil.

A commitment to reducing our dependence on oil. Not foreign oil, but oil. That certainly sounds like a judgment on the merits of the pipeline.

**Written by Doug Powers

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  1. #1
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:18 pm, Hangfire said:

    Bastards!

  2. #2
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:21 pm, letget said:

    I have NO WORDS that says how I ha!e bho! This is one of the most anti-American on jobs and every thing else here in our nation! For the love of God, please people vote this spineless slug snake out of Our House.
    L

  3. #3
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:25 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Jerkstore! I’m going with ‘Jerkstore’!!!

  4. #4
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:26 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Apparently, someone in Canada said, “Does the U.S. consider itself one huge protected national park?” Or something like that.

    Next stop, China. Canada will not suffer fools for long.

  5. #5
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:28 pm, spaceycakes said:

    the administration will allow TransCanada to reapply after it develops an alternate route through the sensitive habitat of Nebraska’s Sandhills.

    how much you wanna bet they’ll find an endangered leucistic turdus migratorius population the next hedgerow over?

  6. #6
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:30 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On January 18, 2012 at 12:26 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Apparently, someone in Canada said, “Does the U.S. consider itself one huge protected national park?” Or something like that.

    Next stop, China. Canada will not suffer fools for long.

    Unfortunately we have suffered fools since 2008.

    Not surprised at all.

  7. #7
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:32 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    After screwing the job market once again, Obowmao turns and says: “Now that’s how you lay some pipe!”

  8. #8
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:33 pm, peteee said:

    hey china, are you going to thank obama for the canadian oil?

  9. #9
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:34 pm, txvet2 said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:30 pm, Republicanvet said:

    Unfortunately we have suffered fools since 2008.

    2006. Congress counts, too.

  10. #10
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:35 pm, DonkeyHoatie said:

    In a related story, the Obama administration announced another 210,000 jobs saved or created in the environmental, tourism and marketing industries in Nebraska’s uninhabited Sandhills region. When questioned about the figure, the administration spokesman declined to comment, saying that it represented the number of citizens in the area who voted for Obama in the last election, multiplied by a factor of 1,000 in keeping with the standard multiple for the “saved or created” metric. “This is yet another example of how successful the Stimulus package has been!”

  11. #11
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:35 pm, txvet2 said:

    Over on Gasbuddy, the liberals will be wailing and moaning about “greedy oil companies” and “speculators” as the oil price jumps again.

  12. #12
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:36 pm, jsr said:

    Who says Obama isn’t working to create jobs?

    However the administration will allow TransCanada to reapply after it develops an alternate route through the sensitive habitat of Nebraska’s Sandhills.

    This alone will keep hundreds, if not thousands of lawyers, bureaucrats, NGO activists and environmental “engineers” busy for years. Forget all those jobs laying pipe and pumping oil. Don’t you have to, like, get dirty to do that? Not fit work for the American people. That’s what China and Mexico are for.

  13. #13
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:36 pm, thejim said:

    Does anyone actually think that this is anything other than part of the planned destruction of the USA?

  14. #14
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:37 pm, Hannibal said:

    TransCanada issued a statement that they have settled on a new route that will not pass through the delicate Sandhills. The pipeline will pass through Shanghai which is not quite as delicate as Nebraska. TransCanada stated that their projections for U.S. job creation will necessarily be revised downward. The Obama administration says this decision will have saved or created some 50,000 park ranger jobs.

  15. #15
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:39 pm, stillontheroad said:

    Hey Sock Puppet!
    How much money are the middle East Oil Countries donating under the table to your re-election?
    Hey Sock Puppet!
    How much money is China funneling into your re-election campaign?
    Hey Sock Puppet!
    How many green firms have declared bankruptcy after receiving federal funds and how much of that money made its way into your re-election campaign coffers?

  16. #16
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:39 pm, WaterBoyz said:

    They probably spent 1000′s on the pipe route.
    What us the odds they will continue to spend money and still not have any odds on getting that revised route approved?

    NOT

  17. #17
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:40 pm, squeaker1 said:

    Obama’s puppet masters see it this way. The unions will vote for Obama regardless of this setback, whereas the Enviromental whacko’s might vote for a Green party candidate if the pipeline is allowed. He knows he is in for a tough election and needs every vote. As usual, it is all about him and not what is best for America.

  18. #18
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:42 pm, Republicanvet said:

    Someone should let Urkel and Queen Sheneequa Tamale know their vacation jets (AF1 and AF Toots) are fueled by petroleum products.

  19. #19
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:42 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    This is pure election politics. Obama can afford to throw this bone to his green supporters only because the GOP field is so weak.

    Believe me, this pipeline WILL be approved early next year. So don’t expect a howl of protest outside of the campaign trail.

  20. #20
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:43 pm, happyscrapper said:

    I have driven through Nebraska twice and both times, the only scenery worth noting was the “Ugly Trees National Forest”. Well, that wasn’t the name of it…that was the name I gave it. I even took pictures for my scrapbook of those trips because they were the ugliest, most twisted trees I had ever seen! Now, I’m not trying to trash Nebraska! I’m sure there are parts of the state that are beautiful. But why not lay that pipe through the Ugly Tree National Forest? Or is that protected land?

  21. #21
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:43 pm, X-Navy-SWO said:

    These people live in a bubble. The jobs commission basically told the administration that one of the things we need is cheaper energy, and the Canadians have threatened to send the oil overseas to China. And so they decide to deny permission to construct the pipeline to try to make a point to the Republican House that added to a law a requirement that they make a decision and not just sit on the application. And in doing so, they have spoiled their “do-nothing Congress” argument (“we sent you a bill designed to make you create jobs, and you killed it”).

    They must be trying to be a one-term administration.

  22. #22
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:44 pm, Iowa Guy said:

    letget said:
    I have NO WORDS that says how I ha!e bho! This is one of the most anti-American on jobs and every thing else here in our nation! For the love of God, please people vote this spineless slug snake out of Our House.
    L

    Amen. (can I still say that?)

  23. #23
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:46 pm, Leigh Patrick said:

    As a Canadian, I am truly disappointed that Obama has chosen blood oil from the Middle East over the ethical oil from America’s greatest ally and trading partner. Thank God Canada finally has a strong, conservative Prime Minister who foresaw this move and has already committed to finding other markets for Alberta’s oil sands. China is first on the list.

  24. #24
    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:48 pm, yaymm said:

    This slap in the face of Nebraska and their unemployed is the tip of the iceberg. Something is going on between the Obama administration and the Canadian government and it does not sound good for either of our Countries. Canada is not at all pleased with the Obama administration meddling and decisions on the pipeline. I have to wonder, what is the end game and why?

  25. #25
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:00 pm, right_on said:

    Three words from Mr. Obama: “F___k off, America!”

    Four words to Mr. Obama: “What, no K-Y jelly?”

    Not being raised as an American first shows…I don’t believe, nor have I ever, that Obama has had American’s best interests at heart. For him it’s simple…Socialism takes precedence over everything, including national defense.

    How did we ever elect this clown? That’s an easy answer…the race allegiance vote, the bleeding-heart liberal vote, the pro-government handout vote, and moderate Republican who wanted to be “part of history” vote.

    Have we learned yet that “words have meaning,” or that “feel-good elections always have negative consequences,” or to “beware of sheep in lion’s clothing?”

    Of several things we CAN be sure:
    You can’t fix stupid;
    no Democrat is a conservative, despite claims to the contrary; and,
    progressives cannot be trusted to do the right thing to ensure liberty and freedom, (nor do they learn history’s lessons).

    Way to go, Mr. Manchurian candidate Obama! It’s going to take decades to undo all the harm you’ve caused to this country…and then there’s the financial burden you heaped upon us, from which we will never be able to resolve. Way to go….IFHTG!

  26. #26
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:03 pm, Mister P said:

    Lets just call Obama et al, the Keystone Kops. I still think he has no intention of ever giving up his power. But I also think he has an IQ bordering 80.

  27. #27
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:07 pm, Mister P said:

    OT: Its turning into a 2 horse race.

    The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters nationwide shows Romney with 30% support and Gingrich with 27% of the vote. Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, who was running second two weeks ago, has now dropped to 15%.

    Texas Congressman Ron Paul captures 13% support from likely primary voters, and Texas Governor Rick Perry remains in last place with four percent (4%). Another four percent (4%) like some other candidate in the race, and seven percent (7%) are undecided.

  28. #28
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:11 pm, Cogs said:

    Bye-bye Obuma.

  29. #29
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:12 pm, letget said:

    Wow, Rush is on this issue now and says bho can’t let the pipeline go because it would say what a failure he has been for the last three years! Rush is correct again!
    L

  30. #30
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:13 pm, Art Fold said:

    Do you suppose BO is counting on this scenario? Gas hits $5.00 a gallon by midsummer and the masses get angry. BO decides that upon further review of the pipeline’s newest proposal and his new regulations in the gulf, “the one” decrees both the pipeline and gulf-drilling allowed. The market immediately responds with lower oil futures prices, gas prices drop, the people rejoice, BO wins re-election and immediately halts both the pipeline and all offshore drilling again. Any new pipeline and renewed drilling better not have any hidden caveats where BO can reverse such a decision.

  31. #31
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:14 pm, old goat said:

    We finally have a somewhat conservative Gov’t in Canada who is willing to work with us on oil and WE are the ones with the nitwit liberal president who tells them where to go. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity!!

    You would think the press might play up the differences in economy and gov’t. Conservative gov’t and the economy goes up, liberal and the economy goes down. The two countries have one HUGE border so can’t say weather is the problem.

  32. #32
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:15 pm, letget said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:13 pm, Art Fold said:
    Any new pipeline and renewed drilling better not have any hidden caveats where BO can reverse such a decision.

    It would not mean a hill of beans what was in the bill, bho will do as he dang well pleases with or without congress! The eo makes bho feel like a king, IMO.
    L

  33. #33
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:16 pm, old goat said:

    ArtFold
    Such a disgusting plan wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

  34. #34
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:17 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:03 pm, Mister P said:
    Lets just call Obama et al, the Keystone Kops Kenyan. I still think he has no intention of ever giving up his power. But I also think he has an IQ bordering 80.

    Changed it. Hope you don’t mind. As for his IQ, who knows? No college transcripts, no records of any kind. He could have been taken out of a Kenyan looney bin for all we know!

  35. #35
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:18 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:12 pm, letget said:
    Wow, Rush is on this issue now and says bho can’t let the pipeline go because it would say what a failure he has been for the last three years! Rush is correct again!
    L

    Rush is correct 99.9% of the time, doncha know! Yes, he is Mr. Awesome.

  36. #36
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:21 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Perfect for Obama. He keeps his Green extemeists happy. And becasue they can re-apply, the green lobby and the oil lobby will still BOTH have to pay tribute in the form of campaign dollars.

    In BHO’s world, it’s all good.

  37. #37
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:24 pm, Mister P said:

    Changed it. Hope you don’t mind. As for his IQ, who knows? No college transcripts, no records of any kind. He could have been taken out of a Kenyan looney bin for all we know!

    Keystone Kenyan, has a certain ring to it.

  38. #38
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:25 pm, Art Fold said:

    letget … I do believe you are completely right.

  39. #39
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:29 pm, Hangfire said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:24 pm, Mister P said:

    Keystone Kenyan, has a certain ring to it.

    How about “The 11 1/2th Imam?”

  40. #40
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:29 pm, AmericanGirl30 said:

    On January 18, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Leigh Patrick said:
    As a Canadian, I am truly disappointed that Obama has chosen blood oil from the Middle East over the ethical oil from America’s greatest ally and trading partner.

    I’m an American, and I can say that as well.

    Words cannot express the antipathy I feel towards our “leadership.”

  41. #41
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:30 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    At this point anyone could beat Obama. Well, except for the actual candidates. Unfreaking believable.

    The only good news – by sending the oil to China, we will be powering American jobs. The ones that left here and went to China.

  42. #42
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:35 pm, RedDog said:

    This is reason enough by itself for impeachment. Deliberatly sabotaging national commerce, and during an economic depression? This is an act of treason or at the least a malfeasance of office that cannot be ignored any longer.

  43. #43
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:37 pm, RedDog said:

    I am coming to believe that Barack Obama really is a KGB agent, planted to help break down the national defenses. None of his policies are remotely rational or lawful.

    Come on Congress, step up, step up now.

  44. #44
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:39 pm, BB said:

    Once again: THANKS FOR NOTHING NEBRASKA!!

    (Apologies to Real Americans stranded there…)

  45. #45
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:41 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:29 pm, Hangfire said:
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:24 pm, Mister P said:

    Keystone Kenyan, has a certain ring to it.
    How about “The 11 1/2th Imam?”

    That works too!!!

  46. #46
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:42 pm, RedDog said:

    What’s Bolshevik O’but*hole going to do when China starts erecting their oil rigs off the coast of Cuba and Mexico? Offer them a stimulus package?

  47. #47
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:42 pm, SkyePuppy said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:33 pm, peteee said:
    hey china, are you going to thank obama for the canadian oil?

    China doesn’t need to thank Obama. No doubt they’ve already paid him.

  48. #48
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:45 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:35 pm, RedDog said:
    This is reason enough by itself for impeachment. Deliberatly sabotaging national commerce, and during an economic depression? This is an act of treason or at the least a malfeasance of office that cannot be ignored any longer.

    Of course I agree, RedDog. But we both know nothing is gonna happen. Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et al are all traitors to this country. They took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. They have broken that oath, taken with their hand on a Bible. Obama doesn’t care, as he doesn’t respect the Bible anyway. Reid and Pelosi? I don’t know, but I think they are also pretty hypocritical “Christians”.

  49. #49
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:46 pm, Hangfire said:

    On January 18, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Leigh Patrick said:
    As a Canadian, I am truly disappointed that Obama has chosen blood oil from the Middle East over the ethical oil from America’s greatest ally and trading partner.

    Japan has oil? Whale oil?

  50. #50
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:46 pm, Hangfire said:

    Just joshing!!!!

  51. #51
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:47 pm, rambler said:

    There is method to the madness….. he wants to push, shove and corral us into a box which will produce riots so he can impose martial law. The belief is that he won’t need an election to stay in power. Read the original SDS and weatherground stuff. After the revolution, China would be invited in to maintain order. The ’60s morons just can’t let go of their stupid ideas.

  52. #52
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:51 pm, stillontheroad said:

    Now what I have read is:
    Buffet owns stock in a Major Railway Company.
    Said Railway company has lots of oil cars to use to ship that oil via rail down to Texas. I believe it is BNSF.
    That aside, Remember what California du=id years ago – stopped all power plant construction saying their State was so perfect that they would purchase power from other States and keep California Pollution free? Remember what happened?
    We have a Sock Puppet that is putting Americas energy needs and solutions eggs in one basket. When that basket falls and breaks there is no back up to anything. This POS is getting away with this and I just do not understand how he is getting away with this.

  53. #53
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:59 pm, 123upnorth said:

    This is what politics looks like without a Libertarian like Ron Paul in the WH.

    Pipeline bringing lots of oil to a country that NEEDS it, from their Biggest trading partner just to the north is denied, yet Saudi Arabia gets to ship oil thousands of miles across the Ocean to the same U.S. shores that refused Canada’s oil in the first place.

    What would be more environmentally damaging?

    a) Shipping oil in a tanker, through ocean waters, thousands of miles away from its final destination.

    b) Running a stationary, miniscule pipeline (compared to the land that it will cross upon) on dry land from the closest proximity to market

  54. #54
    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:59 pm, Mister P said:

    What’s Bolshevik O’but*hole going to do when China starts erecting their oil rigs off the coast of Cuba and Mexico? Offer them a stimulus package?

    He will do what he does best, bow to our enemies and apologize for the US.

  55. #55
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:00 pm, Mister P said:

    What would be more environmentally damaging?

    a) Shipping oil in a tanker, through ocean waters, thousands of miles away from its final destination.

    b) Running a stationary, miniscule pipeline (compared to the land that it will cross upon) on dry land from the closest proximity to market

    Doesn’t matter, they want to get rid of both.

  56. #56
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:01 pm, 123upnorth said:

    He will do what he does best, bow to our enemies and apologize for the US.

    Invite the chinese leaders to his house for a dinner party.

  57. #57
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:02 pm, Paratus said:

    There are some good ideas given about this keystone deal. Also we owe China a lot of money, it could be a way for Obama to give China oil intended for us an IOU.
    Grand Kenyan hasn’t taken hold so I can go with Keystone Kenyan. Good one happyscrapper.

  58. #58
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:03 pm, txvet2 said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:42 pm, RedDog said:

    What’s Bolshevik O’but*hole going to do when China starts erecting their oil rigs off the coast of Cuba and Mexico? Offer them a stimulus package?

    I wouldn’t be surprised. After all, he’s already given $5 billion to Brazil for offshore exploration.

  59. #59
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:10 pm, ThunderHawkk said:

    obama is scum! He is the most disgusting human being I have ever encountered in my lifetime! Oh! The HATRED! It burns!

  60. #60
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:14 pm, 123upnorth said:

    (insert future president’s name here) is scum! He is the most disgusting human being I have ever encountered in my lifetime! Oh! The HATRED! It burns!

    That’s why you need limited government. That’s why you should consider RP.

  61. #61
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:18 pm, AmericaFirst said:

    The Canadian pipeline will go to the Pacific coast. Chinese tankers will accept the oil at some Canadian port. When winter arrives, the United States Coast Guard will break ice for the Chinese super tankers to arrive and leave. No charge for either country. That is the Democrat way.

  62. #62
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:30 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Paratus said:
    There are some good ideas given about this keystone deal. Also we owe China a lot of money, it could be a way for Obama to give China oil intended for us an IOU.

    Technically, it’s not our’s. It’s not on our sovereign soil, only passing ‘over’, we haven’t PAID for any of it (yet) and for all we know ( it will be placed in ‘storage’ until there’s an emergency? )

    Play the Keystone Kenyan theme song!

  63. #63
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:34 pm, Regulus said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:35 pm, txvet2 said:

    Over on Gasbuddy, the liberals will be wailing and moaning about “greedy oil companies” and “speculators” as the oil price jumps again.

    My Vote for Post of the Day.

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:45 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:35 pm, RedDog said:

    This is reason enough by itself for impeachment…

    Of course I agree, RedDog. But we both know nothing is gonna happen.

    Exactly. Democrats will be Democrats before they are Americans, and they treasure their “World Citizenship” over their American citizenship.

    You can take a picture of Obama in a cat house with a bloody knife in his hand, standing with his pants around his ankles over the corpse of the prostitute that he’s just murdered, mugging for the camera with that cheese-eating grin of his stretching from ear to Dumbo ear, and if by some miracle you could get the major media to publish it the reaction of good Democrats everywhere would be the same as Pasadena Phil’s would be:

    “Look! Over there! Republicans!”

    Impeachment is a dead-letter issue unless you have a Republican House and a Republican Senate (with a 60-70-vote super-majority to take into account the inevitable handful of GOP Senators who would still be unable to bring themselves to vote for it).

    There is no way that you’re ever going to get the latter, so the whole exercise would amount to the same self-destructive waste of time it was with Clinton.

    The only way that you’re going to get Democrats to stop putting the welfare of America in the backseat is to get them out of the driver’s seat — via the ballot box, not exercises in futility.

  64. #64
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:37 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:02 pm, Paratus said:
    Grand Kenyan hasn’t taken hold so I can go with Keystone Kenyan. Good one happyscrapper.

    Grand Kenyan…I hadn’t seen that one. Also very good!!

  65. #65
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:39 pm, TGC said:

    Was there ever any doubt this would be killed? After all, the pipeline is good for the United States, so the Democrats are obviously against it…that’s always the way it works.

  66. #66
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:40 pm, roadrage said:

    They took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. They have broken that oath, taken with their hand on a Bible. Obama doesn’t care, as he doesn’t respect the Bible anyway.

    As I remember Obama’s oath was botched. It was later supposedly taken in the oval office, but without cameras. I think there was maybe one still photo taken with his hand on a book. That book could have been Webster’s Dictionary for all we know.

    If anyone can correct me or provide further info on this, please do. I’ve also thought that maybe he used a Quoran, but I don’t know that he would swear on his holy book to uphold the constitution.

  67. #67
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:41 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:00 pm, Mister P said:
    Doesn’t matter, they want to get rid of both.

    Then what? A country can’t survive without oil. Everyone knows that. Even Obama can’t function without oil. AF One, etc. Also, you need oil to make millions of things, including, I suspect, golf accessories. Wake up Obama! You are screwing yourself right along with the rest of us.

  68. #68
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:43 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:14 pm, 123upnorth said:
    (insert future president’s name here) is scum! He is the most disgusting human being I have ever encountered in my lifetime! Oh! The HATRED! It burns!
    That’s why you need limited government. That’s why you should consider RP.

    Give it up, 123! PLEASE!! Ron Paul ain’t happening. Did you catch his last debate? He was BOO’D! The man is toast. He needs to go back to Congress and work until he retires or the altzheimers becomes too apparent.

  69. #69
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:46 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:40 pm, roadrage said:

    I think it was the SC Judge who administered the oath who botched it. But I don’t think it was botched so badly that it needed to be re-done. And, when it was re-done, it would have been done by the same SC Judge who, I think is one of the Conservatives. I doubt he would allow Obama to use a koran.

  70. #70
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:46 pm, John Deaux said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:30 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Play the Keystone Kenyan theme song!

    Okay. Here you go.

  71. #71
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:48 pm, RedDog said:

    From the Mickey Mouse thread:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 9:34 am, RedDog said:
    RUSSIAN OFFICIAL: “OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST KGB AGENT”

    Sounds very credible to me given all the scuttlebutt about his numerous aliases, missing birth certificate, social security numbers and hidden travel and educational records. This guy may be a real manchurian candidate.

    #82On January 18th, 2012 at 9:37 am, RedDog said:

    ….. The Communist official then stated that he was from Hawaii, but would very soon be elected to the Chicago state legislature. This has turned out to be an eerily prescient prediction, as Barack Obama was not elected State Senator until 1996, a full 4 years afterwards, as he took Alice Palmer’s seat.

    In 1992, Obama had recently graduated from Harvard Law School and accepted a position as a Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. Perhaps the most shocking revelation is how deep the Soviet Communist network has embedded itself into American political and educational culture. A quick review of Obama’s political “career” shows a track that was inexplicably greased, from his tuition payments at Columbia and Harvard, to a position at UOC Law School, to his eventual electoral “victories” at the Illinois State Senate, United States Senate, and U.S. Presidency.

  72. #72
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:49 pm, Captain Blasto said:

    May I refer all to this link:
    http://www.keystonexlnebraska.com/the-facts/the-ogallala-aquifer
    25,000 miles of oil pipeline already go across the Ogallala aquifer.
    500,000,000 barrels of crude have been produced from 2000 wells drilled through the aquifer.
    This has nothing to do with the ecology of Nebraska and everything to do with the greenies desire to make us all 3rd world pedestrians

  73. #73
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:51 pm, tiredofit2012 said:

    Under barry’s plan your rates WILL unnecessarily skyrocket.

    1-800-N00-bama….

  74. #74
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:52 pm, dan708 said:

    After we boot Obungle’s butt out of our White House, he will no doubt give a future interview repeating what Carter said back in the 80′s: he claimed that his mistake was not doing a better job of explaining his unpopular decisions (that is, ALL OF THEM!) to the voters. And just like Jimmeh, he’ll be dead wrong; the DECISIONS were the problem, not the lack of spin.

  75. #75
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:56 pm, stuckinIL4now said:

    Wow, this is just as surprising as the NYT/CBS poll (see HotAir) reporting that 60% believe that Oblunder is making an effort to work with Congress and only 27% believe Repubs are making the same effort. So I guess this is just another example of that effort Obutthead’s making to work with Congress–and the American people.

  76. #76
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:02 pm, Darthnoob said:

    However the administration will allow TransCanada to reapply after it develops an alternate route through the sensitive habitat of Nebraska’s Sandhills China.

    FIFY

  77. #77
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:02 pm, RedDog said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 12:26 pm, happyscrapper said:
    Apparently, someone in Canada said, “Does the U.S. consider itself one huge protected national park?” Or something like that.

    Every time I flush my low volume toilet the customary three times with a plunger in hand, I think of Mr. Obama and his Marxist comrades running our country and dream of a New York ticker tape parade celebrating VO Day….

  78. #78
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:03 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Captain Blasto,

    Great link. So it wouldn’t be a giant underground ‘lake’, more like a swamp and at that, with water moving about a foot a day? Heavens!

    This was so predictable. Are we done here Obie?

  79. #79
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:05 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:46 pm, John Deaux said:
    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:30 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Play the Keystone Kenyan theme song!
    Okay. Here you go.

    LOVE it!! :lol:

  80. #80
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:07 pm, Captain Blasto said:

    My wife is a geologist at a big water district up here. She has suggested an experiment to replicate the worst case scenario:
    Put water in a bowl. And oil. Any oil. Observe the results.
    Terrible isn’t it? How would they ever separate the two?

  81. #81
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:11 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:48 pm, RedDog said:

    I just went to your link about Obama being a KGB agent and my computer went nuts, then it kicked me out.

    Can anyone else get in to that site? I have a feeling someone doesn’t want us to see that!

  82. #82
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:12 pm, BannedinBoston said:

    So help me understand this: Canadian oil = bad; Iranian oil = good. So we must need a war with Iran to protect our vital national interests for Middle Eastern oil. Perhaps we should suspend the presidential election and extend the presidential term of “The One” indefinitely under the War Powers Act (as interpreted by Holder), ask the UN and the World bank to fund it (self funding) and unionize the military just to tidy it all up. Domestically stimulate the economy with “Windmill Tax Credits if you erect one in your yard to generate energy to power your Volt.

    My head is going to EXPLODE!

  83. #83
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:13 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Captain Blasto,

    Good for mom! What more evidence do we need this “eco-system” ( and which among them aren’t fragile? ) wasn’t picked anything more than randomly?

    At the rate of a foot a day it will take almost a year to travel the length of a football field. Talk about urgency. How many more will become Unemployed over that course of time?

  84. #84
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:27 pm, thejim said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:35 pm, RedDog said:
    This is reason enough by itself for impeachment. Deliberatly sabotaging national commerce, and during an economic depression? This is an act of treason or at the least a malfeasance of office that cannot be ignored any longer.

    Everything he does is treason. He is doing damage that may never be repaired and all of it with purpose.

  85. #85
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:31 pm, Misscheryl said:

    The reason we are dependent upon foreign oil (and all that entails – high costs, lack of jobs) is because of environmentalist and in this case a politically motivated president. PERIOD!

  86. #86
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:34 pm, stillontheroad said:

    August 2011:”The Obama administration on Friday removed a major roadblock to a planned $7 billion oil pipeline from western Canada to the Texas coast, saying in a report that the project is unlikely to cause significant environmental problems during construction or operation.”
    Today 2012:
    “The White House tried to make its case Wednesday for rejecting a Canadian company’s plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas, saying a February deadline set by Congress was “purely political” and did not allow for a proper review of the project.”
    There is a known liar and non-American making edicts in the WH and it is about damned time this Puppet is called out for the liar he is.

  87. #87
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:36 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Let’s not forget, this pipeline would be of immediate benefit to those red states who despise Obama and we mustn’t do that now must we.

  88. #88
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:41 pm, Misscheryl said:

    I’m just curious and would love to know if Obama hows how much people hate him.

  89. #89
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:45 pm, Gorebot said:

    This gives insanity a bad name.

  90. #90
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:47 pm, Gorebot said:

    Any chance OBlowMe secretly wants to get out of the Oval Office, and that this was therefore a deliberate step toward that end?

  91. #91
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:55 pm, RedDog said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:11 pm, happyscrapper said:
    I just went to your link about Obama being a KGB agent

    Bing or Google search Obama KGB and all kind of hits come up. Some very credible some whacky but there is a lot of very rational and well-thought out chatter going on out there. Very serious stuff is happening in our country and it is not tinfoil hat fare. We have a big problem.

  92. #92
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:57 pm, Roland said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:36 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Let’s not forget, this pipeline would be of immediate benefit to those red states who despise Obama and we mustn’t do that now must we.

    I think you hit the nail squarely on the head right there, Misscheryl. If Obama is going to go against the greens, he will only do it where the immediate benefit will be to voters in swing states.

  93. #93
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:58 pm, happyscrapper said:

    RedDog…Do you realize that link you posted about Obama and the KGB is inaccesible? I got it for about 30 seconds, then it disappeared. Can’t get back in there. I googled it and there are links to it, but they all bounce. At the time I was trying to access it, I was subject to multiple website attacks blocked by my virus protector. Have you cached that article? I wonder if they saw your link and immediately went in to block it. It looked like a very dangerous site to Obama. Someone doesn’t want us to see it.

  94. #94
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:58 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Without much research on my part, I’ve always thought Obeyme has had some secret commitment to the Saudi Royal Family, and to the socialists running Brazil. He is clever in disguising his real loyalties to Muslim oil-producing countries. He has made deals regarding oil purchases from Brazil and particularly with the Saudis. I believe Obeyme is Muslim (and an Islamic sympathizer) as well as a socialist who is hiding his dealings with non-US oil producers.

  95. #95
    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:58 pm, RedDog said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 2:49 pm, Captain Blasto said:
    … This has nothing to do with the ecology of Nebraska and everything to do with the greenies desire to make us all 3rd world pedestrians

    Hey I like maple-flavored wind buggies, yah sure. Pass the pine nuts.

  96. #96
    On January 18th, 2012 at 4:01 pm, RedDog said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:58 pm, happyscrapper said:
    RedDog…Do you realize that link you posted about Obama and the KGB is inaccesible?

    I’m scared happy. What if I get back to the house and my red dogs are dead and there are black SUVs in the driveway? I’m only half joking. I’ll try it again myself. Maybe the moderators here will allow the whole transcript.

  97. #97
    On January 18th, 2012 at 4:02 pm, dan708 said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:27 pm, thejim said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 1:35 pm, RedDog said:
    This is reason enough by itself for impeachment. Deliberatly sabotaging national commerce, and during an economic depression? This is an act of treason or at the least a malfeasance of office that cannot be ignored any longer.

    Everything he does is treason. He is doing damage that may never be repaired and all of it with purpose.

    This brings up the question; when will any of the GOP candidates come out and accuse Obungle of deliberately wrecking the country? There’s plenty of proof to back it up; come on, GOP field, GROW A PAIR!

  98. #98
    On January 18th, 2012 at 4:06 pm, dan708 said:

    On January 18th, 2012 at 3:47 pm, Gorebot said:

    Any chance OBlowMe secretly wants to get out of the Oval Office, and that this was therefore a deliberate step toward that end?

    Intriguing thought, Gorebot. It makes me think Obungle’s entire term (he will have but ONE) might be an experiment (funded by the University of Nairobi, Kenya) to see just how much a president can do against his countrymen’s will and still get reelected.

  99. #99
    On January 18th, 2012 at 4:12 pm, RedDog said:

    Saturday, July 2, 2011
    RUSSIAN OFFICIAL: “OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST KGB AGENT”
    POSTED BY TCA STAFF ON JUNE – 30 – 2011

    Moscow, Russia – A Russian government official bragged that Barack Obama was a KGB operative and that his presidency had been planned since birth, an American physicist and government contractor reports.
    Tom Fife, an American computer networking specialist and international businessman, reported the alarming facts about the Kremlin’s connection to Barack Obama. The boast from a Communist Party official reportedly occurred during a business trip to Russia, 16 years before Barack Obama was ushered into the presidency of the United States.
    “It was like an elastic band snapping all the way from 1992,” Fife shakily admitted, upon recall of the exact moment he realized the Communist official had been telling the truth. “It was a very, very scary feeling.”
    Fife, a physicist and computer engineer, had been traveling to Russia for a joint venture with a state-owned company when the shocking revelation was revealed to him. After several business meetings, Fife and his partner were invited to the company owner’s home at the end of the journey for a farewell dinner.
    The owner’s wife was a Communist Party official and was “climbing two ladders”, as Fife puts it, one ladder being the KGB and the other being the traditional Russian society and business ladder. As the evening wore on, the female Communist official became increasingly agitated over a perceived slight and her emotions spilled over.
    “You Americans like to think you’re so perfect!” she snarled. “Well, what if I told you that very, very soon you’re going to have a black president… and he’s going to be a Communist!”
    The KGB operative was not finished. As she had now dropped this bombshell on the entire gathering, she felt compelled to continue.
    “His name is Barack,” she sneered. “His mother is white and his father is an African black. He has gone to the best schools, he is what you would call ‘Ivy League’.”
    Fife recalls being stunned and shocked at the words flowing from the Communist’s mouth as she continued to rattle off an incredibly precise set of details about this Communist operative who was to supposedly become president of the United States.

    The Communist official then stated that he was from Hawaii, but would very soon be elected to the Chicago state legislature. This has turned out to be an eerily prescient prediction, as Barack Obama was not elected State Senator until 1996, a full 4 years afterwards, as he took Alice Palmer’s seat.
    In 1992, Obama had recently graduated from Harvard Law School and accepted a position as a Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School.
    Perhaps the most shocking revelation is how deep the Soviet Communist network has embedded itself into American political and educational culture. A quick review of Obama’s political “career” shows a track that was inexplicably greased, from his tuition payments at Columbia and Harvard, to a position at UOC Law School, to his eventual electoral “victories” at the Illinois State Senate, United States Senate, and U.S. Presidency.
    Barack Obama’s parents ostensibly met in a Russian language class. This could have been where his mother was recruited by Barack Obama Sr, who could have already been working undercover for the KGB.
    In order to brainwash the child from an early age, they surrounded him with diehard Communists and fellow KGB agents, such as Frank Marshall Davis, a known Communist Party USA official. The Soviet KGB directly funded the CPUSA. This would fit directly into what the Russian Communist said about ‘Barack’, boasting “He has been raised to be an atheist and a communist.”
    “He will be a blessing for world communism,” Fife recalled her saying, after getting over the initial shock of hearing the current president was a KGB agent.
    The creepy prediction stayed with the physicist upon his return to the United States, although he paid it no mind until he began to hear of an swiftly rising political star named Barack Obama. When Fife learned that this same Barack was running in the 2008 presidential election, everything snapped into place and he knew he had to tell someone.
    Today, Fife admits that it deeply disturbs him and that he has never been able to shake the ominous feeling of foreboding about what comes next, now that the KGB official’s prediction has come true.
    “It never leaves you, having someone tell you that they’ve engineered the takeover of your country,” he admits. “It’s really quite scary.”

    http://www.thecomingattack.com/russian-official-obama-is-a-communist-kgb-agent/

    We must take steps NOW to remove this illegal administration from power. We do not have the luxury of time to wait and hope that the 2012 elections will solve any thing. This really could be the very last July 4th that we celebrate as a free and independent nation, if we don’t act now. Listen Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVC4BUg7Yw&feature=feedu

    … So, what does this conversation from 1992 prove?

    Well, it’s definitely anecdotal. It doesn’t prove that Obama has had Soviet Communist training nor that he was groomed to be the first black American president, but it does show one thing that I think is very important. It shows that Soviet Russian Communists knew of Barack from a very early date. It also shows that they truly believed among themselves that he was raised and groomed Communist to pave the way for their future. This report on Barack came personally to me from one of them long before America knew he existed.

    Although I had never before heard of him, at the time of this conversation Obama was 30+ years old and was obviously tested enough that he was their anticipated rising star.

    Tom Fife http://www.rense.com/general84/brck.htm

    Yuri Bezmenov is a former KGB agent and an expert on ideological subversion.
    He discusses the slow process of demoralization that transformed America from a conservative and mostly homogeneous country into a socially-marxist and egalitarian one.

    Posted by SzaboServices

  100. #100
    On January 18th, 2012 at 4:16 pm, thejim said:

    This brings up the question; when will any of the GOP candidates come out and accuse Obungle of deliberately wrecking the country? There’s plenty of proof to back it up; come on, GOP field, GROW A PAIR!

    Not much chance of that, as it doesn’t serve their purpose either.

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