If we can believe White House Spokesman, Jay “That Lyin Sack Of Shit” Carney, which by the way gets a little more difficult with each passing day, the Barry “Almighty” administration has not “rejected” the Keystone pipeline. That despite the fact that Barry did, in fact, cancel the project after congressional Republicans forced him to do something that he’s just not all that accustomed to doing, actually make a decision. “First of all, the Keystone Pipeline is a process. We haven’t rejected anything,” Carney told reporters on Thursday. A process? Ok, what that is, is nothing more than a typical line of pure unadulterated bullshit. More and more this what passes for Whte House press briefings and very seldom, if ever, is there any push back from our lap dog White House press corps who don’t want to rock the boat or create any ‘situation’ for their guy before the election.
The topic of energy came up when Carney was asked by ABC News’ Jake Tapper why the White House continues to use the term ‘all-of-the-above’ to describe its supposed energy policy when such a term doesn’t really apply to how the administration wishes to approach the solving of our energy problem. Especially since it has rejected every Republican idea including, Keystone. Carney, always at the ready to place blame anywhere but where it belongs, responded by saying, “It’s a process that is underway at the State Department that was delayed because – for two reasons – one because of concern by folks in Nebraska including the Republican governor about the original proposed route and then because of Congress’ [and] House Republicans’ insistence on including it as part of the payroll tax cut extension.”
However, what must have slipped Carney’s little pea brain, or was something he figured he could just lie about, which is standard operating procedure for this administration, is the fact that the White House ‘did’ reject the Keystone Pipeline in January, when it formally denied the application of TransCanadal, the company hoping to build the pipeline, to begin work on the project. Federal permission was needed because the pipeline crossed national boundaries, running from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Carney deflected blame saying, “As the State Department made clear last month, the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline’s impact, especially the health and safety of the American people, as well as our environment.
“As a result, the Secretary of State has recommended that the application be denied. And after reviewing the State Department’s report, I agree,” is what Barry told us on January 18. The administration had announced in November 2011 that it would delay the pipeline indefinitely while it completed a second environmental impact study. Republicans then sought to force the president to actually make some sort of a decision on the pipeline by attaching a deadline to a bill extending Barry’s payroll tax cuts. Republicans charged that a second environmental study was unnecessary, given that an exhaustive study had already been conducted, accusing the president, and very accurately so, of bowing to political pressure from left-wing environmentalists who opposed the pipeline under any circumstances.
It was at the time, Carney himself made clear that the president would reject the pipeline if Republicans forced him to act. “I think the president’s language was pretty clear about what he would accept and what he would reject,” Carney told reporters on December 9, 2011. “Reject means reject,” Carney said. “He thinks it’s rejection-worthy.” So what the Hell is it? Is it rejected or is it not rejected? Once again Barry “Almighty” is trying to have it both ways as the election looms just over the horizon. Granted the way most people pay attention to what’s going on, they’ve already forgotten what was said back in December, they just remember what being said now and that’s, according to Carney, that nothing has been rejected. But that’s bunk and he knows and so does the press.
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