only good news is that Obama is screwed. He’s going to anger the unions by doing this. Not only that, but when that oil goes to China, people are going to be furious. One thing to care about the environment, but when it means it’s more expensive to drive, people will not be happy.

They mistakenly think that the only GOP win would have been that forced acceptance. Therefore, killing the pipeline is a GOP loss and the strategy of forcing this decision was a GOP bungle. Unless I am misreading him, that seems to be EE’s point of view.

I have thought about this last 3.5 years and have watched the workings of our political leaders (I use the term loosely) and their actions. We need to remember to learn from History. When judgment comes to a nation God has a pattern He uses to do it. First, that nation becomes led by fools. I can argue that point easily, we are being led by fools on both sides of the aisle. You all express the same disdain even with our so-called Republican leaders (?). Next, God overruns the country with foreigners. Then everyone starts doing what is right in their own eyes. Lastly, the country goes broke or is broken by an invasion from the outside. Now, we are seeing these things unfold everyday at breakneck speed. However, I can see where God has taken the “king’s” heart and made him do a really stupid thing,by stopping the pipeline. That one act is sure to wake up many folks. We all have heat bills, gas bills, electric bills etc. and our pocket books are just about empty. I think that will have a huge influence on the vote. The only concern I have is, is it to late! But of course there is a larger plan for this world that everyone talks about in various religious forms but few really take to heart. Armageddon! Either way I win.

Technically it is only a *loss* for the GOP if you held out hope that The Obama would just *have* to approve the XL pipeline.

But we can still call this a partial GOP win because The Obama can no longer pretend that he *might* approve the pipeline at some point in the future after the November election…well after buyer’s remorse has no consequence to a re-elected Obama.

The Obama can only try to spin and whine “three years was too fast!” and only the enviro-nuts and pre-dedicated Obama voters will buy that. It’s important that the real message gets out to the squishy middle and “union voters” that are no pre-dedicated to voting D in the election.

how long is Canada going to wait? They may just decide “screw this, we’ll sell it to someone else”.

Obama is certainly not stupid, but he is blinded by his own ideology and self confidence. He thinks he can sell this on environmental grounds and even spin it to blame the GOP on forcing him to decide against the pipeline. He also thinks the press will cover for him enough to achieve that spin goal.

The way that Obama framed his decision implies that the Obama strategy of “running against an obstructionist Republican Congress*” is still operative.

In other words, “the obstructionist Republican Congress*” made me cancel Keystone because they set up an artificial deadline that didn’t allow enough time for a reasoned decision on such a complex project. The only way it would work is if the media spin it this way too.

* even though the Republicans only control the House

His intention is to ruin the country before the election.

at America…

I don’t like the party regulars or what they did in either DE or NV. They should be purged, but that’s in the future and wins in those states were both “should have beens”. It’s unfortunate that we nominated a pair of raving idiots, but we’d still be better off right now with Castle and any Republican in NV other than Angle.

Precisely correct, no qualifiers.