Keystone fails in the Senate. So long Mary Landrieu;
It could also determine the fate of embattled Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who is pushing the legislation in an uphill battle to fend off a GOP challenger in a runoff election next month.
@DanaPerino – “Dems are in organizational free fall. NEVER should’ve taken vote. Why go through the pain & draw so much attention to issue while losing?”
More: How Kabuki Theater Explains Keystone Vote
Do not worry. Nancy Pelosi (Dem-San Francisco) was just unanimously re-elected as House Minority Leader after leading her party to the lowest representation in almost a century.
Harry (Searchlight Strangler) Reid will also be unanimously re-elected as Senate Minority Leader after losing the Senate.
This is what the sixth year of Hope & Change looks like.
Watched some late senate coverage. The fellow(senator ) was building a case for XL. The Keystone was applied for passed and built in 4 years. Is ‘hate’ to big a word to describe the POTUS?
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An Ace of Spades HQ commenter points out that Buffet’s money is more important to the Dems than Landrieu’s seat.
It really doesn’t matter anymore. In fact we will get better prices for our oil plus two pipelines. One to the East, the other to the West. Plus building much needed refineries will have to occur. They did us a favor.I doubt most American know we don’t care anymore.They lost the chance for billions, & jobs because of socialist ideology with corporate interests by welfare companies.
Cheap fuel now gone for good.As for Landrieu, she has been crucified by her own bowing down to Obama’s presumed royalty.
She followed her master to disaster.So much for this collectivist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMuBIJxmnA
Weeeeel folks that one less fatace Boomer to listen too.
150 years after Senators and Congressmen had to ride a horse to Washington, perhaps the new Congress could be sworn in a week later instead of 2 months later. Simply stupid! And restrict lame ducks to very specific emergency legislation.
This vote was never about anything but theatrics as the Dems knew Obama would veto it even if it passed. In the “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave”, it took less time to win two World Wars than to now approve what amounts to an additional fraction of one percent of the national pipeline infrastructure. In Canada it likely won’t be any better thanks to our own Green Theocracy and entrenched and enervated apartheid supremacist project.
Plus building much needed refineries will have to occur.
Paid for by whom?
It’s only Canadian oil if it’s in the ground, same as in the USSA. Once it’s out of the ground it belongs to the oil companies and they will send it wherever they want, to refine it the cheapest, to make the most profit. They’ve got a lot of heavy oil refinery capacity in the Gulf [they used to do Venezuelan oilsand crude there]. For the oil companies it makes good economic sense to ship the oilsand crude to the refineries they already have, right on the coast. They will move the crude; by rail, by barge, by truck, by any means to make a buck, cuz that’s the American Way.
Landrieu was tower regardless of how the vote was going to go.
The next dem senate will be much further left than the current lame ducks – not good news for Hillary in 2016. Elizabeth warren is waiting in the wings and may be even futher left than obama. 2016 is for the GOP to lose…
Actually, it makes good economic sense in general. The economics makes it so. It makes NO sense to invest countless billions and have to fight off the watermelon freaks when there already exists spare capacity to refine elsewhere. To say nothing of the infrastructure required to move refined product.
One tanker sunk in the straits of Hormuz. Or and Isis uprising in Saudi and the yanks will be whining like a dog tied to a hay rack for the pipeline to be built
This is great news. I know it’s theatrics but I hope this pipeline never gets built. Better to build pipelines to the west coast, St John, even the Yukon Arctic coast. If the Americans need oil, they can send a tanker to St John and pay the going price.
Could be, but the Canadian cohorts of the same bunch fighting Keystone are fighting tooth and nail to stop both the east and west pipelines in Canada.
Warren Buffet has big money riding on none of these pipelines being built.
It is way past time for the Harper government to shut down the phoney US funded foundations posing as charities and being subsidized by the Canadian taxpayer.
Just a point of correction, it is St. John’s, NL…or Saint John, NB.
I was corrected by a flipper.
Saw this comment on Powerline. (The Democratic Party has become the party of)
“Workers breathing pure, fresh, unpolluted air as they walk past closed factories on their way to the unemployment office.”
My apologies to everyone in Canada for this absurd delay. You are fine neighbors, and don’t deserve this kind of treatment.
Polls suggest that a large majority of Americans would agree with me on those sentiments
So let me guess this straight. Senators, some of whom lost the election (were fired by the electorate) two weeks ago, voted on an issue of international importance because the Senators who actually were hired haven’t been sworn in? This is silly, when you fire someone you pull their security pass immediately, cancel their password so they can’t log onto the system and have security meet them at the door. You don’t let them make any decisions that affect the company.
It’s the 21st century and jets have replaced horses. It is possible for the new hires to be in Washington in 2 days time, not 2 months. It’s time the USA changed this outdated process.
Heard OBOZO declare Keystone would not help/effect US supply or price….that the oil would be exported from the Gulf Posts.
That’s deliberate BS….
Al, you forget one important thing, the horses are smarter than most politicians, and the jets……………..OK, the computers on these jets may also be smarter then most politicians
Long story short supporters needed 60 votes to immediately send it to the Bamster’s desk. They lost by 1 and after the run-offs are held in January they will have the 60 votes.
Lame duck vote.
Ken; Exactly!
I do not restrict the sources of foreign money coming into Canada solely to the USA. I find it sadly comical that Canada does not actively confront this threat to our national security. It is not even a issue for national debate!
I have said before that there is an array of international forces who do not want to see Canada as a energy power. The USA, Russia and most assuredly OPEC are all threatened by such a Canadian evolution. Harper has done a lot during his tenure to grow Canada’s economic power but our maturity as a nation still lags. The mere suggestion that Turdeau Jr. could be the next PM is proof of that immaturity.
I couldn’t disagree more. The more places we can sell our oil, the better. We have a long term trading partnership with the US. As Jim Millar suggests, it’s not the average citizen choosing this. Governments will change over time, friends become foes and vice-versa. The more options we have, the better off we are. The more options the we have to pay for ourselves, the worse off we are. Tying into an existing system that has capacity just costs less, and benefits everyone.
whatever happened to the 50 plus rule to prevent filibusters? there will be a new senate in jan. I hope there is a little more sanity then.
…in January they will have the 60 votes…
But it is unlikely that both the Senate and the House will have the 2/3 majority to override the ensuing presidential veto.
That is true, Glasnost, but everytime the Republican controlled congress sends a bill to Obama to end Obamacare or approve KXL he will have to veto it. The Republicans are hoping that those vetoes will bite the Dems in 2016 when 30plus Senate seats and the oval office will be up for grabs.
You’re right; I just hope the Republicans are actually smart enough to play chess.
LoL! You are actually disagreeing with yourself! All our pipelines already run exclusively to the US If you want to sell to anyone and everybody then do you not think we should build pipelines to all 3 coasts? Plus we would get world price and not a discounted captive market price the US imposes on us because we have no other export options.
Time for Canada to declare its energy dependence from the US.
John Galt, the decision to not build refineries in Canada because of “efficiency” considerations results in a highly fragile gasoline supply system. It makes no sense that a N. America wide gasoline shortage can be caused by a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The way such to get such refineries paid for is to offer companies tax breaks that they couldn’t refuse to build new refineries in Alberta.
Centralization of manufacturing for “economies of scale” is going to result in the destruction of an increasingly unstable world economy. We’re seeing this in medicine as having single manufacturers for numerous essential drugs has resulted in seemingly indefinite drug “shortages” as faulty equipment in the single factory that manufactures almost all of a certain drug in the world results in no backup supplies. In the US, even products such as IV normal saline (yes, sterilized salt water) are experiencing critical supply shortages in some areas — the inevitable effect of byzantinely complex FDA regulations combined with 3rd world outsourcing of manufacture.
For those who believe that such fragile centralization of manufacturing is good, I’d suggest that they remove one kidney, one lung and one eye for “efficiency” purposes to reduce their food bills as these organs are superfluous as the body works just fine without them in daily life.