Keystone politics

So President Obama has vowed to veto legislation authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline. Fascinating, especially what is not being reported.

1. What happened to those unions who were demanding that he sign such a bill as they argued it would create thousands of jobs? They have sold their members out. Obama as usual uses semantics, saying that it would create only a few hundred permanent jobs-, but estimates say tens of thousands of jobs would be created and needed to build this pipeline over several years. But apparently those are temporary jobs in his view and not worth counting.

2. No mention in mainstream media reports that the oil that would flow through that pipeline is currently carried by trains that are owned by billionaire (remember Occupy Wall Street) Warren Buffett, a close friend of the President’s.

3. Locally, the new superintendent of Glacier National Park vowed to keep Camas Road open all winter in case of an emergency like one of Buffettt’s trains de-railing resulting in an oil spill. He must of gotten the word from up high that in spite of a horrible record of trains moving oil that such criticism would reflect badly upon the President’s friend, Buffett.

4. Obama likes to talk about how his economic sanctions are crippling the Russian economy, but truth be told what is crippling the Russian economy is the drop in oil prices, which is a direct result of the amount of oil being produced in the United States, drilling on private lands which he and his greenie friends oppose. Let’s have a little more honesty in reporting.

Joe Novak

Polebridge