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Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline

Barack Obama must have felt like the wishbone from a turkey over the Keystone XL pipeline.  Key groups of Democratic supporters are split, labor for and environmentalists against.  At one point he had an environmental impact statement saying that it was environmentally safe, but then he learned that the statement had been rigged, and was nothing more than a claim from the pipeline company.  So he correctly put the project on hold until an honest environmental  impact statement could be prepared.  It’s my guess that Republicans knew that an honest impact statement would kill the pipeline, because in return for a two month payroll tax cut extension, they demanded a decision on Keystone XL by next month, before an honest impact statement could be prepared in the hopes of bullying an approval from him.  Their tactic did not work and Obama did the right thing… (video)