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Jason Reed / Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama steps on stage to deliver remarks on American manufacturing in front of an Intel plant under construction in Chandler, Arizona January 25, 2012.
President Barack Obama was returning Thursday to two states key to his re-election, Nevada and Colorado, promoting his energy agenda while grabbing some of the political spotlight ahead of his Republican rivals.
Both states hold their presidential caucuses within the next two weeks — events that have grown in importance as the Republican contest for the White House appears to narrow to a choice between former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Obama's energy pitch also comes just days after he drew Republican criticism for rejecting a cross-country oil pipeline that would have delivered Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in Texas.
In Nevada, Obama said his administration will open a large swath in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas exploration and development.
He also was scheduled to speak at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado, drawing attention to proposals for clean energy and greater domestic oil and gas production.
Obama won both Nevada and Colorado in 2008. He visited both states in late October, using that trip to launch a phase of his campaign to jump-start the economy. With economic indicators improving, he now visits on a higher note.
Obama is drawing attention to two aspects of his energy policy — greater domestic energy production and investment in cleaner energy sources.
The nearly 38-million-acre (153,780 square kilometer) parcel the Obama administration is putting up for lease is part of an offshore drilling plan for 2007-12 put in place by former President George W. Bush. But after the massive BP oil spill of 2010 led to an overhaul of the government's oversight of offshore exploration and production, some areas had to be re-evaluated for the environmental risks associated with drilling.
The White House is portraying Obama as willing to seek the middle ground on energy after Republicans and the industry criticized him for the moratorium put in place after the Gulf disaster, the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and other policies they say have hampered production, jobs and national energy security.
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Anyone who has commented on how Obama is not the food stamp king I emplore you to read the facts. Dependency on the government here we come. ABO 2012
http://www.dailyjobsupdate.com/public/food-stamps-charts
yawn. off topic of course. I "emplore" you to consider that the rise is food stamps started well before obama..even under the "good economy" of bush it was increasing, what did you expect would happen due to the housing bubble crash (that started before obama).
we now return you to a discussion of energy.
Campain mode. Promises left unkept.
Do not be fooled just look at dismal record
.. ain't politics great..
most promises kept. politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/
do not be fooled. just look at the record, not meaningless posts with sound bite hate.
(1) I wonder if the Ex-Solyndra CEO, the Weatherization coordinator, and the Thermoplant (in Nevada) CEO, are with Mr. Obama who is completeing his three year campaign "go get-um" green energy agenda.
(2) Maybe Mr. Obama's Jobs Czar (CEO GE) should be with Mr. Obama on his campaigning trips to tell Main Street that GE jobs outsourced to China are coming back to the U.S.
(1) Nah, (2) nah, and just plain nah.
It's called politicking ......nothing more....
You "do not makesense". Do you know what a Federal Republic is? Do you know the roles and responsibilities of the Legislator, Administrator, and Judiciary?
Which Congress and President signed the Food Stamps into law? Who is responsible for funding Food Stamps? Who is responsible for issuing Food Stamps?
Trust me, if you knew the answers to these questions you wouldn't be calling "Obama the Food Stamp King" because most of The People (general public) would know you failed this subject, as he had/has absolutely nothing to do with this program. Geesh.
Now onto the ACTUAL SUBJECT....
Cleaner and cheaper ways of using our planet to produce energy is something we should ALL employ to preserve and protect the only planet we're capable of residing on. We need to be smarter and more while at the same time re-invigorating or economy. This could be as big as what the Industrial and manufactoring eras were, however, we must keep the jobs HERE AT HOME instead of allowing companies to sell us out foreigners for a ridiculous amount of $$$ they could never hope to spend!
Every US PATENT is and should remain the the property of America, period! If you don't want to produce or create your goods or services here, then fine, move yourself and company to another country and good riddence!
I remember a time when "Made in America" actually stood for something. BIG sigh.
If you wish to keep jobs here...quit making the US such a hostile place to do business. If you smack the dog, every time he fetches you the stick, pretty soon, he'll bring it to someone else. You may say "good riddance," but that someone else will have the stick. In this case, that stick is American jobs.
More people actually went on food stamps during Bush administration than are currently accessing the program. Get your facts straight.
Well, lets see here, he's gonna be giving more money to green companies. Oh boy. So far almost 7 billion has gone to those green companies and how many are now bancrupt? The amount of money given to stimulate the bancrupt green companies would have covered the proposed budgetary cuts to the military.
As to Obama and food stamps, seems the folks defending Obama by stating that more folks were on food stamps under Bush neglect to count the fact that Bush had two terms in office while Obama is doing more in less than four years. Apples to oranges comparison. I don't defend Bush here, I think it is abysmal that either president's policies have created this level of need for food stamps.
The only attention Obama is giving to energy is denying his failed policies and the resulting cost to taxpayers:
Battery maker Ener1, a DOE grant recipient, goes bankrupt
"Electric car battery maker Ener1 filed for bankruptcy Thursday, three years after receiving a $118.5 million grant from the U.S. government.
Ener1 received the grant in 2009 as part of a $2.4 billion stimulus effort to jump start the electric car industry.
But during his State of the Union speech, President Obama struck a defiant tone, refusing to apologize for the decisions his administration has made."
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/ener1_bankruptcy/index.htm?hpt=hp_t3
Bankruptcy is bad now? But it would have been okay for GM, right?
Another one of Obama's "Green" companies - Ener1 - filed for bankruptcy and took $120 million of our tax dollars with it. That's six companies and over a billion tax dollars dow the drain.
However, you won't about from the Marxist supporting left stream media
Amazing that he is touting his policies while at the same time the EPA and most liberals are deriding fracking. No policies he has implemented have gone to help natural gas collection, it has been the industry fighting with the EPA on rules. The growth of natural gas is directly tied to fracking.
Fracking was exempted from most Clean Water Act requirements by the previous administration. The EPA is very limited in what it can do. There is not much of a fight going on...except in NY, who is wisely awaiting more complete study. I live in Penna. and our governor is bought and paid for by the natural gas industry...over a million donated to his campaign bank in just over a year by natural gas interests. Also, an interesting article published this week stated that one of the largest drillers, Chesapeake energy, is considering capping productive wells and slowing, or stopping drilling until the price of gas goes up to acceptable levels. What happened to "drill, baby, drill", Chesapeake??
hahaha..."EPA is limited"...haha...the EPA should be abolished
Christ. Show me a procedure that is guaranteed to pollute our environment and damage our precious water supply and I'll show you a hundred knuckle-dragging cons that are in favor of it. Did you see the report recently out of Ohio that fracking was directly related, repeat directly related to seismic activity in the area? Perhaps the people that would be most affected by fracking in their states should have the final word in stead of you boot-lickers force it upon them?
Well, it seems that our choices are rather slim in the area of leadership. Obama at least pays some lip service to protecting the environment, his republican counterparts could care less about the environment. Obama is spending money at an incredible rate, his republican counterparts want to curb that spending. Sooo, either destroy the environment or destroy the economy...lose/lose.
Here's an excellent story on fracking in Texas and surrounding areas:
http://www.fwweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5311:dont-drink-the-water&catid=30:cover-story&Itemid=375
OK " vermontguy " back on course... what do you have to defend BO with when the topic relates to his " history making energy policy ". Lets have your best spin ????
who said anything about "history making energy policy"? sounds like spin from you.
His energy efforts have been uneven. I never claimed to be a huge defender of this area of his work.
Looks like more Solyndras on the horizon. Best bet, invest where obama's pals invest. You are guaranteed a good return on your investment. Unless of course you are part of the looney OWS.
navyvet - They're already here. Hard telling how many more are being kept afloat through new "grants" and "tax breaks".
Battery maker Ener1, a DOE grant recipient, goes bankrupt
"Electric car battery maker Ener1 filed for bankruptcy Thursday, three years after receiving a $118.5 million grant from the U.S. government.
Ener1 received the grant in 2009 as part of a $2.4 billion stimulus effort to jump start the electric car industry.
But during his State of the Union speech, President Obama struck a defiant tone, refusing to apologize for the decisions his administration has made."
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/ener1_bankruptcy/index.htm?hpt=hp_t3
Energy policy? He nixed that when he dumped the oil pipeline. Just like his economic and foreign policy he has NONE!!!
his foreign policy has been decent..as anyone who isn't a hater would admit when considering the entire picture.
oil pipeline? you mean the pipeline that was going to allow canadian companies to send more oil overseas instead of keeping it here? You rate an entire energy policy based on that one event? how silly.
there are three studies on the employment possibility of the pipeline. The oil industry shows the number at 20,000+
The state dept who is responsible due to an international border being involved estimated 5-6,000 jobs.
Cornell University as a neutral on their study estimated 3-4,000 jobs.
Now which figure is the media( ask yourself why) and the republican party touting?
Why would a Republican Gov of Nebraska and a Republican state legislature in Nebraska be opposed to the pipeline?
The "pipeline" isn't dead but on hold for environmental concerns by the state of Nebraska. Once those concerns are met the projcct will likely continue. It also doesn't make sense when oil lovers complain about a many miles long pipeline for hard to get oil when the person they are complaining about has agreed to let more drilling take place in AMERICAN waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil extracted from either of these sources really needs to be an interum source as we convert from fossil fuels to alternative, clean, safe, renewable, home grown energy. By the way I read that we are buying less oil from the coutries that hate us than we have in many years. As our glut goes down we are better able to handle the resulting need with our own oil until the time comes mid-Century when we are finally seeing only a few vehicles, vessels, and air craft use fossil fuels and that would be only because they are antiques and won't respond to the new fuels like hydrogen, electric, natural gas (which should go beyond 2050) or atomic power. Development of a cold fusion reactor is in process and with increased effort could be made in the near future. Solar energy offers up a great supply of energy. Let's face it, if the sun can no longer provide energy we'll be dead and gone anyway. We use in one year, only a small percentage of what the sun emits toward Earth in one day. We need to increase that. We also can increase geothermal energy, wind energy, wave energy all from right here at home and let those countries that hate us and want to live in the 14th Century live in the 14th Century.
The USA is not the leader in alternative energy. Germany and Brazil have done far more research, development and use of home grown ,safe, clean, renuable energy. That is despicable. President Obama realizes that we need fossil fuels to get us through the transition to the new fuels but we must also lead the charge through the 21st Century in this and not let others do it.
@ I need a paxil
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/01/on-keystone-nebraskas-heineman-is-not-a-no-111327.html
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/26/nebraska-governor-wants-obama-to-proceed-with-keystone/?__lsa=cc9bef83
There are those darn facts again!
Great post at #5.4..... and the article is "Hot off the Press" ....... today !
The minimal number of temporary jobs the pipeline would have created would not have mattered when the states it runs through lose their entire agricultural, tourism, and recreation industries due to a spill. Not to mention the end of clean air, water, and wildlife.
Besides, it wouldn't have lowered the price of gas a single cent.
The pipeline is really unnecessary when you have trains that can transport the stuff. Trains that are currently transporting the stuff and Buffet owns a certain railroad that will benefit mightily if the pipeline is nixed. As to jobs, seems there would be more jobs in rail car manufacturing, railroad employees being hired and retained, and the ancillary businesses that exist to supply the railroads. These would be jobs lasting the long term rather than a few construction jobs that would disappear once the pipeline was built.
"let construction begin in segments in U.S. border states"
Do you know what that means? it means hes asking the president to continue the pipeline everywhere else except hes state.
navyvet98
The money spent on Solyndra was given back to him as campain money. How else does he have his war chest. No one in there right mind would give him money so it is funneled through the great give away from tax money.
He has to go.
Really? Source please or we'll believe it a total fabrication.
And don't forget the unions....
You have NO evidence to support that statement, because it is a lie.
The only attention Obama is giving to energy is denying his failed policies and the resulting cost to taxpayers:
Battery maker Ener1, a DOE grant recipient, goes bankrupt
"Electric car battery maker Ener1 filed for bankruptcy Thursday, three years after receiving a $118.5 million grant from the U.S. government.
Ener1 received the grant in 2009 as part of a $2.4 billion stimulus effort to jump start the electric car industry.
But during his State of the Union speech, President Obama struck a defiant tone, refusing to apologize for the decisions his administration has made."
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/ener1_bankruptcy/index.htm?hpt=hp_t3
"Will open a large swath in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas exploration and development" - How many years are we going to hear the same tune with apparently no real action to see it to fruition ? Talk is cheap, at some point even the die hards who want to believe are going to say, "huh, I thought we were already going to do that last year, not to mention the year before as well".
Well, Obama actually first proposed opening up more of the Gulf of Mexico about a week before that BP oil rig exploded and spewed millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. That clearly indicated that the "blowout preventers" weren't working, and that the oil spill cleanup plans BP had made were totally inadequate. So the Obama administration did the reasonable thing, and put a moratorium on deep ocean drilling until the oil companies could prove they were properly prepared to do it right.
Now that the oil companies have finally got their act together, Obama is willing to let them resume drilling.
Obama-backed electric car battery-maker files for bankruptcy
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/206777-doe-backed-battery-company-files-for-bankruptcy
Sorry reality check, you probably wont get a response since alot of the extreme lefties who flood these forums won't comment on anything if they have to deal with those nasty things called facts.
Hey, Makes, you should have read the article. It included such juicy bits as:
and
Those are the kinds of "Facts" that "lefties" love. So much for your "won't comment" comment.
As Mitt Romney will tell you, sometimes investments fail, there is always a risk, even for professionals. Of course, Mitt managed to make millions on every company Bain bought, including those that went bankrupt, but of course drawing off millions in "fees" often pushed those companies over the brink into bankruptcy.
CM - Wonderful "facts" you have there. (sarcasm)
Are so dim as to think that someone who just lost $118.5 million of taxpayer dollars on a political payoff is going to say anything except that "the technology has merit"? An opinion about "merit" is not a fact.
EnerDel received $4 million from Republicans and is still in business.... it's parent company Ener1 received $118.5 million from Obama's "stimulus" and is now bankrupt... and you think that fact helps your defense of a shameless administration?
I wonder what happen to the 500 million Obama gave to Solyndralar Solar plant that went broke soon after. Any one know?
It came back to him as campaign money....there are more green companies that are getting ready to file for bankrupcy....the tax payers will have forked out 1.2 billion dollars to companies like Solyndra...down the toliet...
Why is MSNBC saying he is "promoting his agenda" ? Let's be honest, the Campaigner-in-Chief is campaigning yet again on the taxpayer's "dime".
His energy policy is like a bad case of schizophrenia. The only consistency is the inconsistency itself.
The Dirt Bag Hussein decides to do what anyone with a brain would have done, THREE YEARS AGO. Campaign mode barry. Too Little-Too Late. GOOD RIDDANCE Hussein.
Why is this surprising? Obamas friends don't stand to make another mountain of money off the pipe line.
It is good to hear that our President is getting a chance to get out of Washington for a few days and take some vacation time. I guess that our President is not concerned about global warming any more.
The President needs to remember that without conditions, he promised that the 2012 federal deficit will not exceed 229.27 billion dollars. I would like the President to explain how this is to be accomplished.
One shouldn't suppose that he is cherry picking the states in which he needs to pander...
I do have to admire his dance between environmentalists and unions--wink and nod, wink and nod... and they provide mindless support.
B. Hussein Obama has no positive record of accomplishments to run on. A record of success in jobs and the economy would've been easy to champion. But when you have a record of failure, joblessness, record deficit and U.S. Taxpayer spending with no positive results, Chicago-styled pay-for-play politicking & cronyism, recession and abject, blatant incompetence, half-truths are the best you can do.
Expect to hear more of this as B. Hussein Obama hits the stump this week. He’ll ignore his three years worth of failures and try to build his case on faulty premises and empty promises. That worked in 2008 because Obama had no record. But it won’t work on Nov. 6th, 2012, because he has a very clear record and that record is one of failure and no improvements to the U.S. economy or joblessness.
On the economy, jobs, health care, energy, the federal deficit, the U.S. national debt, housing, lobbyists, ethics, and energy policy -- all of these issues -- the president has broken his promises to the American people. It all makes for a very unflattering before-and-after.
Let’s take that list in reverse order.
On energy, B. Hussein Obama said in 2008 that it was time to end our foreign oil addiction. In 2011, he admitted, “we’re not where we need to be.” He called his own energy policy “just a hodgepodge.”And last week, he blocked the Keystone XL pipeline project, which would have provided America with a safe, affordable energy source, while creating thousands of new American jobs.
On campaign ethics, B. Hussein Obama called Wall Street executives “fat cats” and then acted like a fat cat himself: he’s accepted more Wall Street money than all other presidential candidates -- combined.
Health care was supposed to be B. Hussein Obama’s great achievement. He promised his plan would bring down premiums “by $2,500” for the typical family. Last year, they rose by 9 percent.
B. Hussein Obama boldly promised that lobbyists would never “find a job in my White House.” Yet to date, he’s hired almost 100 of them.
In 2008, he said former President George W. Bush's adding of $4 trillion to the U.S. national debt was “unpatriotic.” Yet B. Hussein Obama has increased it by more than $4.5 trillion and is on track to add trillions more in only three years as president.
B. Hussein Obama promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Instead, he racked up three record deficits of more than $1 trillion each year.
B. Hussein Obama promised he could create thousands of jobs with green energy spending. Then he lost a $535 million taxpayer-funded loan to the now-bankrupt, "green energy" company Solyndra.
With his $825 billion stimulus, Obama promised unemployment would stay at or below 8 percent. Not only did unemployment shoot past 8 percent, it hasn’t come back to that level since. It's been closer to between 9% and 10% for virtually his entire presidency, except in the last two months of 8.6% and 8.5%.
And then there’s the biggest promise of them all: the economy. B. Hussein Obama was so confident he could turn around the economy that he promised in early 2009 on NBC's Today Show, that if he didn’t have it fixed in “three years” then his presidency would “be a one-term proposition.”
(To be fair, that’s one promise he can still keep.)
In October of last year, President B. Hussein Obama unveiled the slogan “We Can’t Wait.” It was par for the course for a White House that regularly substitutes sloganeering for policymaking. And it was indeed merely a slogan. Three months later, we’re still waiting. We’re still waiting for a plan to revive the U.S. economy, a plan to reduce the U.S. national debt, a workable, reasonable, bi-partisan plan to keep any one of B. Hussein Obama’s many promises that HAVE NOT been kept. If this coming week is any indication, we’re going to be waiting a lot longer.
Remember, B. Hussein Obama is supposed to be this "great, compassionate man of the average-joe American" and president, but he is also the guy who actually insulted the handicapped and special needs, parents, coaches and players themselves of the Special Olympics on the Jay Leno show, calling his bad bowling, "like Special Olympics or something." The clip can been on YouTube titled: Barack Obama Special Olympics Insult.
obama, building on lies, no substance no profitability.....
You drill baby drillests need to point it at your heads and let a little of the air out. You're the same people who said the President was "extorting" money from BP. After years of no oversight by the Bush administration, finally some sense is being restored to environmental regulation. How much has Halliburton paid for their "we can do it safely" screw up? The oil companies wrote their own ticket with the Republicans. How much has the American taxpayers given to the same while they have found every avenue to stick it to us with ripoff prices and environmental disaster. You claim the dirty Canadian oil sands will decrease American dependence when they say it will be sold on the open market. Wonder why the pipeline doesn't go to the Canadian west coast? Wonder what will happen if/when the oil spill fouls the Ogallalla aquifer and the midwests largest source of water? His energy policy is and has been decreasing American dependence on ever expensive diminishing oil reserves and increasing renewable energy research, development, and deployment. Do you still believe as you were told by your oil corporate masters that cars can't get 50 miles to the gallon? If our President said the sky was blue you'd say it was red. Pick your knuckles off the ground or you right wing dinosaurs will become oil.
I am a drill baby drill kinda guy.. I make my living moving large land based drilling rigs. while I certainly do not profess to be any kind of political expert. (i spend most of my time working) I have been involved in the proliferation of oil and gas in the rocky mountain west since 1977. Starved and bankrupt at times, and doing very well at others. I can tell you ... from experience.. Oil and gas is one of the most vulnerable industries tied to politics in this country.. Now.. I'm not talking about the Monster Majors.. not at all .. but the thousands of service and support companies that rely on a stable energy market for sustainability. The XL pipeline?? Who cares? All politics.. Canadian oil going to Texan Refineries.. once in place.. forgotten,, just like the Alaskan pipeline.. What I would like to see is someone with investigative experience look into just how much of our precious energy resources are being exploited by companies that are NOT US based.. taking our future back to Canadian, Dutch and English banks in the form of huge profits.. while the American people squabble about .. politics.
"turns attention to energy in key states" - Meaning the state of Brazil. While Obama severly limits drilling here at home in the Gulf of Mexico, he provided funding for Brazil to drill offshore of THEIR coastline. So not only less energy dependence here at home but jobs in Brazil instead of the USA. Way to go, Barry Soetoro, more loss job opportunities in the USA.
the President said, "We'll also work to strengthen our relationship when it comes to energy. Brazil holds recently discovered oil reserves that could be far larger than ours, and as we seek to increase secure-energy supplies, we look forward to developing a strategic energy partnership. We'll also continue our shared leadership in green economic growth and clean energy, including everything from biofuels to renewables such as wind and solar power."
In fact Obama said he was looking forward to importing oil from Brazil. The President said "We want to work with you. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers."
Running up our deficit so we can be more dependent on foreign oil? The President goes on, "At a time when we've been reminded how easily instability in other parts of the world can affect the price of oil, the United States could not be happier with the potential for a new, stable source of energy."
futresmag.com/News/2011/3/Pages/Obama-aids-oil-drilling-in-Brazil-why-not-America.apx
just wanted to back up your comment a little there Kurt.
We are refining more gasoline than we are using. Secondly, gasoline consumption is falling and will continue to fall while oil production is increasing & will continue to increase. Obama has been doing a great job wrt energy. Keystone pipeline not needed. Renewables needed.
You right wingers, need to be thanking President Obama for his support of our economy which was destroyed under you Republicans. He absolutely has a record to run on as opposed to the last office holder who ran away after letting the foul air out. The let them fail, let them die, birther racists had nothing to say about the deficit when it was being run up by the last occupant. The deficit spending attributable to the President was all related to the economy, which you tea totallers wanted to collapse like the little Hooverites you are. The stimulus did keep the economy from going over the cliff. Maybe yours should have been one of the seven hundred thousand jobs being lost every month when he came in? Maybe your health care should have suffered as it has been for the last decade under your right wing do nothing ,except for the Koch types, policies? He needs to do some campaigning so the fools out there that think just maybe their is a Republican who could have done a better job are reminded who screwed the pooch and who is returning America to it's greater promise. He isn't perfect but he's a damn site better than anything the loonies on the right have put up. Where are the jobs you promised Bonehead? Where are the jobs the Republicans have promised for the last twenty years of handouts to the "job creators"? Tinkle down is what we got instead. President Reagan would roll over in his grave if he could see the Republicans of today as he was closer in real policy to President Obama than any of you "conservatives" of today.
Three years later....it's now his problem...and he has not accepted it at all...his policies have only aggrivated things....Harry Truman said the "Buck Stops Here" and it should stop at Mr. Obama's desk..... Everyone held shrubby to task..... it's time to do the same here....
Maybe you see a health professional about that anger thing you have going there Pat.. ?
anything our president does , is better than watching bush crawling through the deserts , looking for imaginary '' wmd's ''. thank the good lord , and pass the jobs bill.
Um.... Mr. Obama.... You trashed the jobs in the southern states with the Gulf Drilling ban (a justifiable, though over reaching one due to the situations, I will give you that)...... and now the cancelation of Keystone.... How 'bout restoring and bringing energy jobs back to the states you stabbed in the back???? Or was it "retribution" 'cause you don't like Texas? Keystone sure would have brought jobs...to more than just the oil states.... it passed thru a lot of others..........
Anything to get re-elected!!!!
Energy for 'key states' favorable to his re-election bid; to heck with Louisiana and the shut-down pipeline.
It's funny how the repubs try to highjack that bill into a payroll tax cut. That pipeline will put oil on ships to China. And who cares about peoples health,oil companies don't. Don't bring La. in it,we came upfront and in the face of BP. It funny how for months cons were down on Unions now they want to used them in an argument with the pipeline.Energy companies should be held responsible for health care,they trample over our land,put oil in our fishing grounds and contaminated our seafood. Our whole eco system has been destroyed,not they want to destroy an aquafilter for profits.It's total crap. As far as THE PRESIDENT being re-elected please close the door of the House, it will be an f-5 tornado coming thru. I hope GINGRICH wakes up a Blackman tommorrow and ROMNEY wakes up POOR, so they will know how the real Americans feel. And don't come with this crap that that we will pay less for gas,we all pay the same. OBAMA-BIDEN2012 J-MAL
It would be just amazing he would keep his rear in Washington and let that Jet cool off a little.