The debate over whether Hillary should be our candidate is over...

[karynnj]

151. You are not addressing the accusations, but a strawman that she is a Koch favorite instead

I would agree that it is highly likely that the Koch brothers with roots in the John Birch society will support nearly any Republican over nearly any Democratic -- and this might be a time where my cautious "nearly any" might have been unnecessary.

As to Keystone, it was pretty clear that it was on the way to approval at the point she was leaving. In fact, the CW was the decision was made and her successor would be the one signing it. The study was pretty clearly biased - starting with the assumption that the same amount of tar sand oil would be extracted whether or not it was built or not -- therefore you could not use the carbon from the tar sands as a factor.

Even then, that should have sounded wrong to anyone who passed Economics 101. The amount extracted will be determined by whether the last drop is profitable. If the Keystone pipeline lowers the delivery to market cost, it lowers the point where cost equals price. In fact, as the oil prices have fallen, a WP article recently said that at the current price, it might impact whether that oil is extracted. Therefore that pollution NEEDS to be included.

I suspect that what has happened since then is a very reluctant SoS and President have slowed everything down - which might have been as effective than a clean no.