Fearless Prediction
By Mitch Berg
While the Democrats will yip like a bunch of over caffeinated Jack Russell terriers about the “jobs” “lost” in the inevitable rejection of Governor Dayton’s idiotic Jerbs plan – jobs that would have either existed without the Jerbs plan (because the $3K one-time deduction would merely confirm a big company’s plan to hire someone) or would never have existed were it to pass (for example, virtually any small business hiring), they are downright proud of Obama’s rejection of the Keystone Pipeline, a private-sector initiative that would have created thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of real private-sector jobs, and create an oil supply to prevent inflation that would kill even more jobs.
The Obama administration announced that it would deny a federal permit for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, which would run 1,700 miles across six US states bringing toxic, highly corrosive tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada, to refineries and ports in Texas.
The president stood up to Big Oil, backed by the voices of hundreds of thousands of activists just like you, who have built the movement to stop this dirty, dangerous oil project.
So there’s your message, American electorate: government-sponsored jobs good; private sector jobs, expendable.
If the GOP doesn’t pound that home in November, they don’t deserve to win.
January 19th, 2012 at 7:14 am
Somebody should tell you kooks: oil is a commodity. As soon as the production of X barrels of Canadian oil come online, there’s X more oil supply in the world market, regardless whether this or that shipment goes to China, the U.S. or Madagascar. More oil supply, all other things being equal, means lower prices, not higher.
Angryclown remembers when you teabag types used to pretend you understood free markets.
January 19th, 2012 at 9:01 am
Um, he was talking about jobs Clownie. Not oil prices. The production of X number of jobs in Canada and China produces 0 in America, where we’re kinda short right now.
January 19th, 2012 at 9:02 am
Somebody should remind all the enviros that pipelines are safer than mega tankers on the open seas. If a pipeline breaks, you turn off the upstream pump and only lose the oil in the effected segment. When a tanker sinks, you lose all the oil in the tanker.
January 19th, 2012 at 9:03 am
Hey clownie, how about this one: Not only are we NOT going to get American jobs, we already started LOSING jobs because of your blunder-boy faux-president:
http://arkansasnews.com/2012/01/18/ark-congressional-delegation-denounces-keystone-pipeline-rejection/
January 19th, 2012 at 9:53 am
Another nail in Obama’s coffin.
I do believe people are beginning to realize that “progressivism” means fewer jobs, higher prices, and less freedom.
Which is what conservatives have said all along.
January 19th, 2012 at 9:54 am
We have suggested they not worship their god. The high priests of the enviro-psychotic movement have decreed Mother Earth is angry; the polar bears are cold and the tides are conspiring against us. Their shrines are a solar panel and a windmill and their gospel is in their politics.
The One True God is waiting patiently to expose their folly.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:17 am
Angry Clown’s response to Obama’s pipeline FAIL is almost identical to the response from some idiot from the World Wildlife Fund I heard on the radio yesterday. I’m sure it it just a coincidence.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:17 am
I think it’s already been pretty much exposed. But you can call me a “kook” for making the observation. Doesn’t make your point, however.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:36 am
Obama has abandoned the working class and anyone making under $100K. He’s driving up the price of oil and electricity and trying to pass it off as good for us, the economy, and the planet. The problem for him is that more and more folks aren’t believing him so we should expect him to react as he usually does; prepare for more speeches, folks!
January 19th, 2012 at 10:42 am
Another racist comment from Nerdbert.
You should be ashamed of yourself. Hater!
January 19th, 2012 at 11:02 am
Obama doesn’t give a rat’s butt about the Middle Class,
http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=25722#comments
January 19th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Aww, give Angryclown some credit. He didn’t lift his oil fact from some ‘idiot at the World Wildlife Fund’. He lifted it from the WaPo (who probably lifted it from some idiot at the WWF without attribution).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-keystone-xl-pipeline/2011/12/19/gIQApUAX8P_story_1.html
January 19th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Aww, give Angryclown some credit. He didn’t lift his “fact” from some ‘idiot at the World Wildlife Fund’. He lifted it from the WaPo (who probably lifted it / co-created it from some idiot at the WWF without attribution).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-keystone-xl-pipeline/2011/12/19/gIQApUAX8P_story_1.html
January 19th, 2012 at 4:28 pm
And now the word has come out that Tax Cheater Timmy lied about defaulting on the debt if the ceiling wasn’t raised again, then said never mind! We’ll just pilfer money out of the federal employee pension fund and screw more American workers! Excuse me if I express no sympathy for these minions of his highness Obumbler.
On the pipeline; an Engineer friend of mine claims to have seen the specs on the pipeline. Supposedly, they called for an industrial liner (you know, the kind that they use under settling ponds) to be buried about three feet down and extend 100 feet on either side of it five miles before, over and five miles past the aquifer. If this is true (and it makes sense tha tit is), I hope that it is brought to light to make the environazis look even worse for not knowing that.
January 19th, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Bosshoss, haven’t you ever looked at a map? Canada is ABOVE us. if that pipe bursts there will be no stopping it, all that oil will run over the US like a leaky toilet on its way to the Gulf. Eventually the pristine snows of the Antarctic will turn black with oil.
January 19th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
The saddest thing is, that for business, it is more cost effective to build a pipeline across the whole United States than to build a refinery near the oil supply.
January 19th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Also, Canada is north of the United States and much like the water in the Red River, an oil leak would flow northward to the Arctic.
January 19th, 2012 at 9:19 pm
But Canada is ABOVE THE US ON A MAP, Tom
Don’t you understand geography?
Angry Clown will rip you for this kind of ignorance. I bet you are just shaking at the thought of it.
January 20th, 2012 at 11:57 am
The funniest thing about oil is that it is a natural product! It will degrade and asa we saw in the gulf a couple of years ago, faster than the experts expected.
And, Terry, if that actully happens, we have an endless supply of Dawn to handle it! 😉