Remember The Bridge To Nowhere ?

Now we have ‘the pipeline to nowhere.’ If this were not so pathetic, it would be hilarious. President Obama is touring the country (on our dime) touting his energy policies (as we approach $4 a gallon gasoline).

Power Line posted a fact-check on the President’s speech yesterday.

Power LIne reports:

The glaring hypocrisy of the president’s speech today is that he announced that his administration would fast-track approval of a pipeline project that the White House has no control over. And if the president has the ability to fast-track permits, why has he waited until today to use that executive authority? And why only for this project?

This administration’s record speaks for itself. For more than three years, President Obama has implemented a three part energy strategy: delay, deny, and deceive.

A story posted by Reuters yesterday points out:

Despite numerous attempts by Republicans to compel the president to approve the Keystone permit, Americans are still left with a 1,179-mile (1,897-km) gap between the oil resources and this southern portion of the pipeline,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner, referring to the full Keystone XL project.

A new Gallup poll conducted earlier in March showed 57 percent of Americans thought the U.S. government should approve the building of the entire Keystone XL pipeline. Among Democrats, 44 percent supported the pipeline, with 38 percent opposed.

Do we really look that dumb?

 

 

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