Is anyone surprised by this calamitous decision by the anointed one? This decision was made by the king himself when a deadline was put on him by congress. For those of you living under rocks or have your TVs stuck on MSNBC, congress gave the president an ultimatum for their acceptance of the tax package. Written into the bill was a provision that said Obama had to make a decision on the pipeline by February 21st.
What surprises me is he made his call on January 18th a full month before he had to. This is the same man who spent four months trying to figure out how to answer the military’s request for 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan.
Ah, but there was method to his madness here. By rejecting the Canadian pipeline deal he could say with a straight face that he was not forced into any decision by congress. At least that’s what his handlers and George Soros would want you to believe. But without a teleprompter to tell him what say, he blew it big time and came right out and said the decision was not on the merits of the pipeline, but rather on the “arbitrary nature” of the Feb. 21 deadline set by a Republicans as part of tax measure he signed.
So the man who would have you believe the economy is on the rise and he is creating jobs all over the place has just put the kibosh on thousands of jobs and made us even more dependent on Saudi Arabian oil.
The Canadians want this pipeline as much as we do but now will sell the oil to ….guess who? CHINA. — Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday he told Barack Obama he was profoundly disappointed after the U.S. president called to tell him the administration rejected a plan to build the oil pipeline.
So let’s look at the entire scenario. Canada has the thrid largest oil sand reserves in the world. Right behind the Saudis and Hugo Chavez. We import half of our oil, much from Mexico and Canada as well as the Saudis. We have 8.5% unemplyment (more like 12% when you count those who quit looking and have run out of benefits). So why, in an election year, would Obama deny the permit to build the pipeline when he could garner many votes by approving it?
He has cleverly left the door open saying he did not have enough time to review the entire plan. Of course he only used half the time alotted to make that absurd statement. So what is he up to? Let’s call it the “spring surprise”. In mid spring he will announce that he approves the project in an attempt to garner all the union votes back that he has lost. And, as good little socialists that they are, the unions will think him a hero for adding all those jobs to the economy. They will conveniently forget that he could have done that in January.
Granted, politicians have no conscience but to play with the lives of the American working public is criminal.
