House Speaker and professional Tard the Cat look-a-like John Boehner shot orange soda all over the place when he pouted about President Obama’s promised veto of the environmentally devastating (and nil job creating) Keystone Xl Pipeline.
Following through on a promise, President Obama swiftly vetoed the Republican bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline, essentially killing the project for an extended period of time.
“Through this bill, the United States Congress attempts to circumvent longstanding and proven processes for determining whether or not building and operating a cross-border pipeline serves the national interest,” President Obama wrote in his veto message. (Reuters)
President Obama’s veto could only mean that John Boehner would be leaking Cheeto dust everywhere as he stomped and kicked at the president’s rightful veto. And that’s precisely what he did.
Here was Boehner’s statement:
“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.
“So we are not going to give up in our efforts to get this pipeline built – not even close. We pledged to make the people’s priorities our priorities, and we will keep working every day to deliver on that commitment.”
You don’t have to exactly be a Washington insider to know that the pipeline deal would only create 50 permanent jobs. So basically, we need to risk killing the planet to sell dirty oil to China and have a workforce the size of a summer a hot dog stand? Of course John Boehner is totally cool with mounting petty fights over the debt ceiling and shutting down the government. Nah, that wasn’t a national embarrassment at all.
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To Bonehead it’s about him losing $$$. He acts like we don’t know how many jobs this pipeline creates. He could care less about jobs. Hey Bonehead… Americans aren’t half as stupid as you think they are.
Bonehead & Co. believe and spout only what they want to believe, while acting as if the facts that support their opponents’ arguments and successes don’t exist. What a legacy they’re creating for themselves, and won’t their friends and families be oh so proud…?
Hmmm, and if the Republican’ts would not sell their selves, and us, to the highest bidders, and actually hold corporations accountable for their legitimate tax bills… Perhaps there would be enough money in the economy (and not just in their off-shore bank accounts) to truly stimulate economic growth, which, duh, automatically creates jobs.
This one ‘bill’, the Keystone, is just another overbearing, single-minded, corporate interest. And it’s purchased too many of our congressional “legislators” already.
Thank God for Obama, a Democrat president that actually ******* cares.
When you start off by calling it the “Keystone jobs bill” you can pretty much write the rest off as a bunch of lies.
Yeah, as the Dems kept trying to force actual jobs provisions in and the Rethugs kept rebuffing them.
All it would take to turn that whiny pout into blubbering tears is a few more stiff drinks.
I am amazed I found such a stupid website.
42,000 jobs??? This number just gets bigger every time a repub spews this bs.. Perhaps we should just wait this out for another ten years or so, when it will employ everyone!
This is the biggest load of crap Boehner ever tried to sell. When amendments were added to use only American made steel and that part of the oil stayed in the US… those amendments were rejected…. so tell me again how this is good for America…. jobs would have been added by our steel industry and gas prices would have been positively effected by keeping part of the oil in the US…. but THAT was not the plan…. the plan was to line the pockets of oil companies and the Koch Brothers… sorry guys, Obama saw your scam…. and vetoed it!!!!!
John Boehner said, “We pledged to make the people’s priorities our priorities, and we will keep working every day to deliver on that commitment” but what he was REALLY saying was, ” We pledged to make out Corp. Owner’s marching orders our priorities, and we will keep working every day to deliver the results they have already paid for as soon as I can stop crying over what that man did to my bill.”
Since when did republicans ever give a shit about “workers and unions”?
Yeah, the part about unions have me a cynical chuckle
JUST ANOTHER REALLY IGNORANT GOP WHORE FOR HATRED OF AMERICA!
40-50 American “workers” vs ALL of Planet Earth’s BREATHERS? — And Boner thinks it’s a CONTEST??? WTF.