“President Obama put his personal political interests ahead of improving our country’s economic climate.”
Rick Perry writes in the Wall Street Journal:
… Keystone would have provided a shot in the arm for our nation’s uncertain economy, and it could have provided economic opportunity for tens of thousands of families, stretching from here in Texas all the way to the Canadian border.
Hoping to appease environmental radicals, President Obama said no, claiming he didn’t have time to adequately consider the pipeline.
This is despite the fact the original request was made in September 2008, and Keystone was the subject of dozens of meetings on multiple levels of his own administration, as well as exhaustive environmental impact reviews. Certainly, three-and-half years is more than enough time to make a decision.
His reasoning becomes even more laughable when you put it up against his massive, ill-conceived so-called stimulus bill, which he muscled through Congress and signed within the first month of his presidency.
President Obama wants us to believe he is for jobs, economic opportunity and greater energy security, and his Keystone decision does help meet those goals—for the People’s Republic of China. The American people get nothing…
Obama doesn’t have time to deal with real issues; he has to work on his handicap. Question for Perry; why doesn’t he work on an interstate compact to get the pipeline project going. We knew from the state Obama would kill the project. It is a sad state of affairs when one man can kill a project that makes economic sense for America.