Senate nears 60 on Keystone

[cali]

Supporters of the Keystone XL oil pipeline are nearing 60 votes in the Senate ahead of a vote next week on whether to approve the project.

With passage of a pipeline bill in the House all but assured, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) says she is “confident” she can rally the 60 votes needed for a filibuster-proof majority in the upper chamber.

"It is ready for a vote and we have the 60 votes to pass it," Landrieu said on Wednesday.

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Right now, Keystone supporters have a firm 58 votes in the Senate, 13 of which are from Democrats, after Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) on Thursday said he will vote "yes."

"Enough already, Carper said, when asked Thursday why he is backing the pipeline.

Carper said President Obama should declare victory on the climate deal with China, which he said will have "profound effects" that far outweigh Keystone in the fight on climate change.

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http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/224047-senate-keystone-bill-nearing-60-votes

[Cleita]

1. They truly have no respect for the

ordinary citizen. Those 13 Democrats need their phone lines to be burning.

[mylye2222]

2. Shame on the Dems who selled out to King Dollars.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Elections have consequences

America wanted to move right....and it's happening.

[arcane1]

4. And it's happening in a Dem senate, too.

WTF are they thinking?????

[Cali_Democrat]

5. They think they now have to move right.

[arcane1]

8. And I don't buy their reasoning for one millisecond.

Landrieu seems more like an excuse than a justification

[truebrit71]

10. No it didn't.

14% of America wanted to "move to the right"....we don't know what the rest of America wanted to do because they couldn't be bothered to fucking vote....

[Cali_Democrat]

13. Well they didn't vote...that's the problem.

The folks who voted Nov. 4th are now having their voices heard.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

15. They voted to not care one way or the other.

Not that their voices count -- by their own choosing.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. meh

It's not like anybody in the base is going to not vote for them when the time comes. People will fuss and fume but as soon as the next election cycle rolls around they'll come racing back.

[Bandit]

11. You mean like they did this last election?

MOST Democratic registered voters didn't show up to vote.. Most of them. Only a minority of Democrats bothered to vote and stuff like this will actually lower that figure. People are beginning to flee the Party...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

14. McConnell made no bones about his support for coal. Grimes hemmed and hawed around the issue.

Coal jobs are union jobs. Coal miners and the economies around them should be a natural constituency for the Dems. Are we losing party affiliation because we're sacrificing the environmentalist faction or the union faction?

Perhaps that is the dynamic we're seeing with the KXL vote.

[spanone]

7. ahh, the sound of bipartisanship about to fuck over the american countryside

[JEB]

9. Shit like this....

I will NEVER vote for any SOB that votes to pass this pipeline bill. If I wanted shit like this I'd be a fucking Puke.

[Eridenus]

12. There is no Keystone XL

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/10/14/keystone-xl-dead/