Orange Crushed: John Boehner Melts Down After President Obama Vetoes Keystone XL

[Panich52]

Orange Crushed: John Boehner Melts Down After President Obama Vetoes Keystone XL
By: Jason Easley

Speaker of the House John Boehner could only react with inept rage after President Obama vetoed Keystone XL.

In a statement, Boehner raged:

The president’s veto of the Keystone jobs bill is a national embarrassment. It’s embarrassing when Russia and China are plowing ahead on two massive pipelines and we can’t get this one no-brainer of a project off the ground. The president is just too close to environmental extremists to stand up for America’s workers. He’s too invested in left-fringe politics to do what presidents are called on to do, and that’s put the national interest first.

For the president, Keystone may just be today’s politics, but there are workers and unions who have spent years counting on the 42,000 jobs this project will support. There are small business owners counting on the promise and opportunities this project will bring to their towns. There are governors in both parties counting on the revenue and growth this project will bring to their states. There are manufacturers clamoring for the development of North America’s resources. And there’s an overwhelming majority of Americans who want us to put politics aside and get this done.

Everyone who pays attention to politics understood that the Republican obsession with Keystone XL was a total waste of time. It is interesting that Boehner considers the veto of the pipeline a national embarrassment when he doesn’t feel the same way about the government shutdown that he spearheaded, the various debt ceiling debacles, the invasion of Iraq based on a lie that he supported, and House of Representatives that spends more time on vacation than passing laws.

The national embarrassment is John Boehner. ...

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[GP6971]

1. OT. He's between a rock and a

hard place now that the Senate voted 98 to 2 to fund DHS, without the Immigration rider.

[Arcanetrance]

2. Did he really have the nerve to talk about unions after what his party is trying to do

[Fred Sanders]

3. The pipeline would "support" 42,000 jobs.... "Support" is so broadly defined that if you buy a beer

at bar, and get a lap-dance, with generated from pipeline construction, it is considered as supporting two jobs....I not making that up.

So, as usual, the GOP lies in order to justify their now rather boringly predictable hyena cries.

[sunnystarr]

8. Maybe he's just looking at it long term...

When the pipeline leaks into the Ogallala aquifer how many jobs will be created to clean it up? It would take years and by then I'm sure another leak will come along.

[Panich52]

9. And now proving math problem. Wasn't it about 35K mythical jobs last week?

[Fred Sanders]

13. "Jobs" and " jobs supported" are purposely and maliciously being conflated and misused by the GOP Ministry of

Propaganda.

Without a whisper of correction or reporting on the abuse by the media.

[Cha]

4. K&R.. I love a good Orange Crushed! Mahalo Panich

[Jamaal510]

5. Now I suddenly

have a craving for some orange soda.

[spooky3]

6. Or some R.E.M.

[freshwest]

7. BWAHAHA! Thus, Obama is a left-wing fringer environmentalist!

OMG, I'm dying here! ROTFLMAO!

BTW, Obama has been sneaking around doing environmentalist stuff for a while. No wonder the Orange Man is juice:

Obama administration extends roadless moratorium

By JEFF BARNARD - May 28, 2010


FILE - Old growth Douglas fir trees stand along the Salmon River Trail on the Mt. Hood National Forest outside Zigzag, Ore., in this June 25, 2004 photo. The Obama administration on Friday, May 28, 2010, extended a moratorium on logging in remote backcountry sections of national forests known as roadless areas, where much of the country's old growth is located, until pending court cases are resolved. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The Obama administration Friday extended for another year the moratorium on most logging and mining in millions of acres of remote and rugged backcountry sections of national forests...

The idea of preserving roadless areas for wildlife habitat and clean water came out of the Clinton administration. The Bush administration tried to open them up to more logging and mining by giving states control...

National forests in 39 states have a total of 58.5 million acres of roadless areas that have been formally placed on an inventory. Historically, they were not logged or mined due to their remote and rugged geography. But the land became a battleground between conservation groups and the timber industry during the 1990s, when national forest logging was cut back to protect fish and wildlife such as the northern spotted owl and salmon...

"The roadless rule stands to this day as the most significant forest conservation measure to happen in our lifetimes," said Marty Hayden, legislative director for Earthjustice. "You've got something on the order of 60 million Americans whose water literally begins in our national forests, and most of that water begins in roadless areas."

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2010/may/28/obama-administration-extends-roadless-moratorium/#lb-photo170329

No difference in the two parties, right?

[Panich52]

10. Thumbs up smilie here

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. It was vetoed and hardly anyone noticed

A more ludicrous example of political theater and patronage politics would be hard to conjure.

The whole thing is a joke. Nobody gives a shit.

[alcibiades_mystery]

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