Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) delivered the cold hard
truth to Senate repugicans. Sanders told them that they were wasting
their time trying to pass a bill to authorize Keystone XL.
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MSNBC’s Ed Schultz asked Sen. Sanders if Senate repugicans were wasting their time trying to pass Keystone XL. Sanders
answered, “The answer to your question is yes, and then on top of that
the president has said that he is going to veto it, and they don’t have
the votes to override the veto. But Ed, for these guys the Keystone
pipeline has become a symbol, and that’s what they’re going to fight
for. They see this as a major jobs bill that will provide thirty-five
permanent jobs and several thousand jobs over two years. That’s their
idea of real jobs bill, but they will reject the idea of rebuilding our
crumbling infrastructure and put millions of people to work.”
Seator. Sanders was correct. The repugicans have no chance
of seeing Keystone XL signed into law while President Obama is in
office. Sanders also nailed the fact that Keystone XL is not a jobs
bill. Keystone is nothing more than a repugican gesture of love for the
Koch brothers and big oil. Mitch McConnell promised a new and
productive Senate, but instead McConnell’s Senate is wasting weeks on a
bill that is going absolutely nowhere.
The repugican idea that they will force President
Obama to authorize the pipeline by attaching it to must sign legislation
is a delusion. If there is one thing that the has become common
knowledge over the last six years, it is that there no guarantee that
even must pass/sign legislation will ever become law. The repugican
fixation with the authorization of Keystone XL has lost with reality.
Keystone XL won’t create massive amounts of jobs.
The pipeline won’t make America more energy independent, or less
dependent on foreign oil. The pipeline is an example of the sort of bad
public policy that congressional repugicans have continually embraced.
It may be a new repugican majority, but as Bernie Sanders pointed out, repugicans remain as out of step as ever.
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