Are you OK with the Democratic Congresspeople voting for the Keystone Pipeline?

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223. Are you okay with GOP congress voting to repeal the ACA,

enact the Ryan budget, separate food assistance from the farm bill, abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, privatize Social Security, open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage, move U.S. immigration policy further toward harsh and cruel treatment of immigrant families, etc. etc.?

I oppose the Keystone. It goes against my environmental ethics. It encourages the incredibly destructive practice of oil sands mining. It put even more pressure and risk on the already severely compromised environment in the Mississippi delta and the Gulf of Mexico. It prolongs our dependence on fossil fuel and delays our transition to saner alternatives.

The Democratic Party is by necessity a big tent and not everyone agrees on every question.

But I'll take a red state, Blue Dog, Democrat over any Republican every time. Winning control over congress is hugely important. Even a conservative democrat caucuses with the Democrats.