BREAKING: Lame Duck Senate Will Vote To Approve Keystone Pipeline

[freshwest]

86. Obama has been kicking and obstructing this since he took office in 2009.

But it's going to get really nasty in negotiations. He cannot veto a CR and give the GOP what they really want - a collapse of all social programs and all agencies acting in the public good.

He knows full well that is exactly what the GOPTeas want to do. They want a shutdown and they want default and they are not shy about it when talking with their bagger voting block. They're in the wings waiting for this.

I can't imagine what he can do to shove them off this deal without any help from Congress. The Senate held the Reichwingers back and they will not be there in suficient numbers to stop the KochGOP.

He has repeatedly said that Keystone is not in the nation's best interest and it is not going to provide more than a couple of hundred permanent jobs. The work the GOP tout now is the construction phase and maintenance of a modern pipeline is mimimal.

Also, Obama has said that the USA will get NONE fo the oil or any other fuel to keep prices down and the economy going, and that NO taxes will be paid to the USA for it.

Not only that, he's brought up that in less than a year the income from it being shippped from Koch firms in Canada to their refinery in Houston and then offshore will double the personal wealth of the Koch brothers, increaing their power over the USA.

It's going to be an ugly two years and then frankly I expect everything to go straight to hell when PBO leaves office. He's been the boy with the finger in the leaking dike asking for help and gotten none.

JMHO.