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Showing Original Post only (View all)Alan Grayson Stands Up to Republican Attempt to Push Through Keystone Pipeline. [View all]
HR 3, which passed the House last week and will now go to the Senate where it has a good chance of passing, declares that a presidential permit is not required to approve the completion of the Keystone Pipeline.
It also seems to be declaring a lot of things that aren't true:
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Alan Grayson Stands Up to Republican Attempt to Push Through Keystone Pipeline. [View all]
IronicNews
May 2013
OP
Thanks Alan for standing up in that pit of vipers. Foreign oil companies bought them out.
freshwest
May 2013
#4
Thank you, defacto 7, for placing this event in its proper political context.
JDPriestly
May 2013
#29
What are the odds that Obama would veto? In contrast to FDR with 635 vetoes, Obama has only 2.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#27
He has to veto it because we can't afford to burn the carbon in the tar sands.
limpyhobbler
May 2013
#35
They need to hammer it home. Over and over again -- like the Republicans do with their lies.
gateley
May 2013
#22
The hammer is the media. We don't control it, they do. We'll just have to keep it up here, gateley.
freshwest
May 2013
#23
Freshwest, when the Republicans get a talking point, every single person manages to get
gateley
May 2013
#37
I was with people doing anti-war demonstration during the Bush reign of terror. Uploaded to youtube.
freshwest
May 2013
#38