Carney: Obama Didn’t Deny Keystone Permit
**Written by Doug Powers
President Obama said the same thing back when the administration denied the pipeline permit the Republicans’ killed the Keystone project because of their political games.
Transcript from Real Clear Politics:
Carney: “In terms of Keystone, as you all know, the history here is pretty clear. And the fact is because Republicans decided to play political with Keystone, their action essentially forced the administration to deny the permit process because they insisted on a time frame in which it was impossible to completely approve the pipeline,” Carney said when asked about the pipeline by ABC News’ Jake Tapper.
Later in the briefing, Carney says it is the Republicans’ fault.
Jake Tapper: “How can you say that you have an all the above on approach if the President turned down the Keystone pipeline? And you blame the Republicans for making it political.”
Carney: “But the President didn’t turn down the Keystone pipeline. There was a process in place, with long precedent, run out of the State Department because of the issue of the pipeline crossing an international boundary, that required an amount of time for proper for review after an alternate route was deemed necessary through Nebraska at the request of the Republican Governor of Nebraska and other stakeholders in Nebraska and the region that needed to play out, to be done appropriately. You can’t review and approve a pipeline, the route for which doesn’t even exist.
It’s amazing what excuses they can come up with for things they don’t want, and what justifications can be created for expediting things they do want.
President Obama spent several weeks offering desperately pleas of “we can’t wait” on job creation, so the Republicans took him up on it, and the reply from the White House was “you can’t rush it!”
If the White House had been told the pipeline was going to be used to funnel solar panels from Solyndra to Shangri La, the thing would have been constructed post-haste — time-constraints, cost, and the opinion of officials in the Midwest be damned.
Click the pic to roll tape:
Funny how Carney has to pretend the administration didn’t deny the pipeline because of denied for political reasons.
**Written by Doug Powers
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What can one expect from a president who blames everyone and takes no responsibility for his own actions.
well, duh.
A pipeline will put lots of long-haul truckers (teamsters) out of business.
Hurry. Build it. Now.
Gawd, this must be how it felt to live in 1940 Germany. The truth is what we say is the truth. We are the only good in the world. We make no mistakes, we are always right, we will tell you who is messing your life up. I do not believe that there are words sufficient to describe just how much I despise government at all levels.
Since when is Nebraska an international boundary, buttmunch?
Jay carny’s lies are becoming more and more outrageous. Pretty soon, everyone will just start laughing as soon as he opens his mouth. He has sold his soul to the devil.
I just heard more lies on Neil Cavuto this afternoon that were so obviously false, I coudn’t help myself…I started to giggle. And they have no idea how stupid they sound.
can we give jay a nickname? like jay baghdad bob carney?
The point of my previous post being that any input the State Department had to the pipeline should be limited to US/Canada issues, not what part of the sandhills the pipeline runs through in freakin’ Nebraska.
Just call it the clean, green Solyndra Pipeline.
Green light.
Pay attention because this line of crap is going to be repeated constantly by every msm outlet and every liberal talking head out there. Carney just gave them their story….wait for it..
In typical Democrat fashion, they should have approved the project to find out exactly where it was going to run, kind of like Obamacare.
Man! If we only had an opposition Party! What could they do with crap like that?
This is kinda like a guessing game.
Obama did deny didn’t he?
No, he didn’t deny deny just kinda like kinda denied.
Kinda like when my kids get caught not calling home when they are suppose to call.
The phone kinda didn’t work, but it did,
but.. maybe it worked I’m not sure.
“The President didn’t actually block the pipeline, he…uh…..nudged it. Yeah, he nudged it. That’s the ticket.”
Not at all amazing. With them it’s all too predictable.
“War is Peace” Freedom is Slavery” and “Ignorance is Strength.”
Definition of a Libtard Snapperhead:
Jay Carney
Listening to Carney is as bad as listening to Juan McCain exclaim during his re-election campaign: “We gotta build that wall” or listening to Rombama lecturing us about his conservatism.
So what Carney is saying is Obama was pouting that someone actually dared to give him a timeline to make a decision. Carney claims there was not enough time, but from what I have seen they had already completed a 3 year review and were awaiting a yay or nay decision on it.
How many more decades would you think Carney wants to have for the President to decide?
They might well have emptied tbe fields before the route is approved.
Once it can not carry oil, it will be approved, and it will be the evil capitalists that do not provide the union jobs needee.
It’s clear HE doesn’t even believe what he’s spewing.
See him flipping pages as he starts to speak?
His smirk as he is speaking?
He knows it’s a crock.
Did you notice that early in the briefing old Carneyclown said that the administration was forced “to deny the permit process” and later he said the President “didn’t turn down the Keystone pipeline. There was a process in place…”
See the administration is not the same thing as the Prezuhdunce. Get out the Ginsu knives folks, we’re mincing words here.
Spokeshole of the Goldman Sachs White House Jay Carney just gave the MSM their talking points for the next week. We’re good; move along.
This administration really WANTED to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, but because the wascally Republicans wanted to as well, Obamakins couldn’t possible be seen siding with the 1 percent, now could he?
That’s all they can do is lie. They even lie when they don’t have to. It’s a Liberal requirement to lie.
How Øbama Makes Decisions
There is a cliché in Washington. There are two things you do not want to see made: sausage and laws. To those we may add a third: Barack Obama’s decisions.
Americans were warned by his opponents that Barack Obama was unprepared to be president. He had very little record to run on, and his one experience at being an executive was a failure — his hushed up history running and running through a hundred million dollars as the head of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in Chicago. He had a record of avoiding tough decisions (the “voting present” issue); he was just a celebrity who was not ready for the 3 A.M. phone call. The presidency was not an “on the job” training program.
After three years we can judge those fears to be well-warranted.
There are many people who have problems with his policies. Barrels of ink and billions of pixels have been used to criticize his agenda. But surprisingly little analysis has gone into figuring out the mystery of how Obama actually goes about making decisions.
Fortunately, over the last few years journalists have been obsessing over Barack Obama almost as much as he has been obsessing over himself. They have provided various vignettes that give us a disturbing picture of a man floundering in his own careless if not willful ineptitude.
Americans should have been alert to the paucity of his own record of accomplishment. (Some of us were.) As a state senator he showed little interest in learning the intricacies of legislation. Instead, his political mentor, Illinois State Senate President Emil Jones, allowed him to “bill-jack” the legislative work of others and claim it as his own. This was a practice he continued as a U.S. senator. He was unprepared to do the homework and heavy lifting — that was for others to toil over.
If there is one constant to Barack Obama’s life, it is his lack of a work ethic. I never doubted that the Barack Obama had stellar grades in college and law school. He surfed the wave of grade inflation that has probably always been a factor in his success. This is pure speculation, but the reason why he never released his transcripts was probably because they would have revealed that he took easy left-wing courses that would have reflected poorly on his work ethic. The laziness has persisted.
A leader has to be well-informed, consult with good advisers and experts, read and research, and make a decision. He has to prepare himself to be a leader.
We saw signs during the campaign that he had little interest in the issues of the day. The late Dean Barnett wrote in the Weekly Standard in a column titled “How Smart is Obama”:
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/how_obama_makes_decisions.html#ixzz1n3jgIQ00
This Jackass (their party’s symbol) is a way WORSE PS than Gibbs, and Gibbs was the worst to start with, so that’s really, really bad!?! One can only hope that there are enough really, really STUPID Americans (you know, who watch their news on Communist TV networks like CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, etc.) get so badly burned by $5-$6.00/gal. gas, that they finally blame the right person and people, Obastard and the DoltocRATs, like when they are in the damn voting booth!?!
There is some solar project that is/was being built in California on BLM land using energy/Urkel vote buying bucks that is going belly up because of some distempered rat or squirrel or something.
I wonder what the timeline comparison is between the two is.
I was shocked the enviro-wackos and tree-huggers rolled over so fast to allow it.
On February 21, 2012 at 02:57 pm, Hangfire said:
Not to mention less money to Buffet for his railroad.
How will his poor secretary get by?
If it’s NOT being built, well, I would call that “KILLED!?!”
I believe you are mistaken. The dumb masses know that they will get free gas to go along with those free cars parked in the driveways of their free houses they got by squatters rights. They know this is true: The Won told them so in his first campaign…didn’t he? I distinctly recall the immortal words of some chick from Austin, Tx, saying “I won’t have to buy anything. Oblamo will give us all what we want!!” And you know, she must just be right. /sarc above; not /sarc at the end.
Throw this in and you have the nightmare that is his Presidency:
Carney is a graduate of the Bagdad Bob School of Information.
Yep, if you or I wrote that piece….
You can always tell when is fixen to tell a lie, his mouth goes to one side and there is a smirk. carney and everyone around bho does the same! They can not tell the truth is their life depended no it! If a person will not look me in the face or at eye level when I am talking to them, what do you have to hide? Just look at bho when he is on the bhopress, not too many times he will look said toadie in the eye!
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letget, sorry major need to preview?
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“Beltway”Bob + Jay Carney “Barker” = “Circus of the Damned Liars”.
Green Eyed Lady:
WOW! Excellent article. Thanks for the link. This guy IS a nightmare come to life. If he isn’t kicked out in November, God help us all.
Our pResident is not now, nor has ever been a leader. Everything in his life has been done for him. His life has been a path of preparation for his current office, taking advice and instructions from his mentors and doing exactly what he is told to do.
He’s only things for which he is well prepared for is his next celeb fund raising gig, golf or vacation outing.
The most over used phrase by Obama:
“It wasn’t my fault!”
The second:
“Republican’s have thwarted every attempt I’ve made to help the economy.”
My favorite:
“Uh..We won!”
My favorite after the November election:
Buh-bye! DLTDHYOTWO….
Obama’s legacy?
Community OrganizerFailed Commie agitator! Same-same….It is very odd about Obama.
I keep thinking, everyone knew he lived in Indonesia. Why didn’t a reporter get on a flight there and ask Obama’s school buddies about him? It’s not the usual occurrence a President spends part of his life in Indonesia.
The fact that Dad’s from Kenya, go there ask Daddy’s friends about him. Did Dad gloat over little Barry or did he even mention him?
I know these are old questions but still what the hell is going on?
I really do know. Obama was made for this roll. Remember the Democrat Convention where Obama made his first big appearance and speech? A Freshman Senator making a big speech? I’m sure it’s happened before but it’s not the norm.
Lazy. Liar. incompetent. Arrogant…..just to name a few.
There are three certain things in life: death, taxes, and everything any liberal says being a lie.
“Step right up folks! Ah promise yuh a winnah every time! A WINNAH EVERY TIME!”
Excellent questions. Here’s another one: will we ever know the answers???
There’s about half the population out there that don’t see what he’s saying as the least bit untruthful. Carney could say, “But Barack really IS Jesus Christ come back to save us all! He just got a tan while he was away!”
And half the electorate would fall on their knees.
“Look! Over there! Republicans!!”
If Obama wins a second term, I’ll be surprised and disappointed if you don’t end up with Carney’s job.
The really sickening thing about this is Carney is telling the truth. I said it in the this blog when they set this deadline that the stupid republicans were handing this issue to Obama on a silver platter. They have no one to blame but themselves. America’s future is looking more dismal by the day. I cannot envision a scenario where Obama is not president for 4 more years. If not the next 4, then after 4 years of Greece like rioting, he will come back and be the messiah all over again. USA RIP. I give up.
I don’t know why you are all picking on Carney, he’s a fine fellow. Why, he’d give you the scales off his back if you needed.
Exactly what I predicted they would say.
Sure – you can approve a health plan that hasn’t been written, but approve an oil pipeline?
“There was a gulf see, and water everywhere, and Mexico, it’s the Gulf of Mexico, how can we drill in their gulf unless the GOP approves – I mean I approve, and the Judge who keeps telling me to drill approves, but Cheney and Bush have pushed me into a corner see, and then there’s the strawberries…”
It’s a good thing for Obama 35 million Canadians can’t vote in U.S. elections.
Get your hip waders out cause the sh*t is gonna get even deeper the closer we get to November.
On February 21, 2012 at 05:09 pm, Paratus said:
Followed immediately by every leftist media outlet bleating on and on how he was the “rising star of the dimowit” party over and over and over again.
If any of them tried vetting him even the smallest amount after all that build-up, he would have had a mighty hard fall.
By the time the election rolled around their lips were permanently attached to his ass and have been there ever since.
On February 21, 2012 at 05:48 pm, SteveH said:
Uh, so after three YEARS of studying the issue Republicans should have continued to sit on their hands rather than leading and forcing the issue?
How long did it take to shovel money at his green energy fiascoes?
Urkel was pulling a political stunt either way they went.
At this point they should be loudly refuting his lies. What do they have to lose?
On February 21, 2012 at 07:16 pm, Leigh Patrick said:
The votes would be nullified by 35 million illegal aliens and dead people.
WOT but more irrefutable evidence proving why this is such a bizarre election where not one cares what the voters think. Hint: it’s the money. Sh-h-h-h-h-h.
Note how much of it is going to American Crossroads, the Rovian Progressive PAC.
And when will the R talking points come out to counter-attack this?
We’ll be waiting for your return. Don’t worry about us missing you, we won’t.
I am betting that by December of this year, Jake Tapper will walk up to the podium where Carney is speaking. Tapper will grab him by the lapels, then b!tchslap Carney into next Tuesday.
The rest of the media will be stunned. They would have just witnessed the birth of a new American hero.
Carney, for his part, will cry like a little girl.
Harry Bailey:
Based on what load of BS you DARE make this prediction?
America’s own Baghdad Bob!
The scary thing is how many people swallow this crap.
Will trade bridge for pipeline.
That’s the message that the Bridge to Nowhere Tea Party posted on Saturday in Colorado to protest
Obama’s denial of the permit forRepublican efforts to stop the Keystone XL project.Check out the story at the Pundit Pete Press Service, including Citizen Pete’s rant and the lefty CSU guy’s response.
Hey we’re the Bridge to Nowhere Tea Party, and “We’re here to help.”
Sweet. You just keep thinking that.
Obama Sings “Sweet Home Chicago”
Give up your day job, PLEASE !!!
They are all pathological liars and/or delusional. Obama in in the WH with the Dems controlling the Senate and and everything is somehow the Republicans fault.
Jihad Jay needs a big ole Hijab around his head with a stenciled Maroon Five O’clock shadow like Adam Levine. The Four Eyed Mullah of DC as noted in the Quran. Why is Tapper the only guy to question this dopey administration? I’m just glad he replaced that vulture neck Helen Thomas. You know she is riding the thermal winds above Iran waiting for Israeli casualties.
Heh. This guy is even more lame than Robert Gibbs! How is that possible? (I know the answer to that question).
We’re so freakin’ screwed.
I fear for your mental health.
“Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak in Bayreuth, I say different things than I say in the Pharus Hall. That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths.”
-Speech by Joseph Goebbels on 9 January 1928
He’s the perfect man! He’ll say whatever the string-puller wants him to.
Whenever they talk about the administration’s handling of the Keystone XL Pipeline they should show a clip of the Keystone Kops.
THey do about the same job.
Hmm, so he was also a climate “scientist” as well as a murdering b@st@rd?
The project is being built outside of Blythe, California, which is where I live. The problems are “distember” in Kit Foxes, which have about a million square miles of habitat to choose from all the way from Mexico to Las Vegas, and the discovery of ancient indian desert intaglios on the work site. An intaglio is a picture on the ground made up of rocks. I believe work has ground to a halt more because of the indian discoveries, which only make sense as they’re building this plant on the shore of a dry lake bed, which was probably once a thriving lake, where plants would grow. There are famous intaglios just up the Colorado River to the north of Blythe too, and these are Federally-protected lands also.
What is most humorous is that the design of the facility could probably be altered to skirt over the top of the intaglios, thus preventing further wear due to the blockage of the sun/weather effects. I bet they could even set up a thriving tourist attraction on the site, drawing visitors to both the solar plant and the intaglios! If they’d just continue to build it.
A “landslide” election loss from the likes of the Ignominious lout and brazen hypocrite you call Obama?
Wishful hoping will not change the outcome. They only way he can even approach victory, is by stealing the election through fraud, but that won’t work this time.
Bullspit. Elect me President. By February 2013, the Keystone Pipeline will be approved. Probably sooner. Here’s a transcript of the approval process:
“By executive order, all departments of the executive branch shall do whatever is necessary and in their power to assist in the immediate commencement of construction of the Keystone pipeline. All permits and approvals, past, present and pending, are hereby determined by the Chief Executive to have been met fully and completely. Any employee of the executive branch who shall in any way obstruct the immediate construction of this pipeline will be charged with and hanged for treason.”
A man does what needs doing; a bureaucreep worries the process to death.
Was that Mitt Romney, or Newt Gingrich?
And was that Karl Rove, or Republican pundits once again putting forward their “big tent” theory?
Just remember how that “practice, not theory” worked out for Goebbels:
Carney just flat out lied.
SOP for this administration.
“Other stakeholders in Nebraska”?
Is Obama going all GM takeover on the Cornhusker State now? If so, he’d better leave the football team way the hell alone.