Carper Supports Keystone Pipeline Veto Override Vote to Help Idiotic Landrieu Ploy – also BIPARTISANSHIP! Naturally
This is just the stupidest thing ever and it is a great example of two things: 1) The Democrat Party is just horrible and 2) Tom Carper is absolutely an out and out fucker. Seriously, wait to you read his statement. It is a goddam doozy.
Keystone on the move in Congress
By Elana Schor11/12/14 10:03 PM EST
Updated 11/13/14 6:42 AM EST
The Keystone XL pipeline is about to get a vote in both houses of Congress — but it still could fall short of reaching President Barack Obama’s desk.
The Keystone drama began Wednesday when Democratic leaders cleared the way for Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu to seek a vote on a pro-pipeline bill that could bolster her standing at home before her Dec. 6 runoff against Rep. Bill Cassidy. Then after aides in both parties suggested their opponents would object, the embattled Landrieu won bipartisan agreement to take up a proposal that she has been pushing throughout the campaign season.
In the House, Republicans quickly announced a vote as early as Thursday on a version of Landrieu’s Keystone bill with Cassidy’s name on it. When Landrieu did not object to a Republican request that Cassidy’s House bill be the measure ultimately sent to Obama — not her own — the Senate agreed to a Tuesday vote on the $8 billion pipeline.
The White House stopped short of a veto threat against the bill, but spokesman Josh Earnest gave it a chilly welcome in Myanmar, where he was traveling with the president. “The administration has taken a dim view of these kinds of legislative proposals in the past. … It’s fair to say that our dim view of these kinds of proposals has not changed,” Earnest told reporters, according to Reuters.
And Obama’s opinion won’t even matter unless Landrieu can find 60 pro-Keystone votes in the Senate, where pipeline backers have counted only 57 backers for months. That count appeared to rise to 58 on Wednesday, when Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) agreed to back the bill.
Carper “believes it is time to set politics aside and move forward in a bipartisan manner to address this complicated question,” his spokeswoman said. “He is hopeful that moving forward with this bipartisan bill will pave the way for Congress to work together on other measures to increase our energy independence while also addressing the real environmental and public health threats we face from greenhouse gas pollution.”
Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, a Democrat previously courted by Keystone supporters, suggested that his position on yanking the pipeline from Obama’s purview is unchanged. Lawmakers should not be “issuing construction permits,” he said in a brief interview.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/keystone-pipeline-congress-112855.html#ixzz3Ix1mThle
I’m sorry but I just have to say, this is a towering masterpiece of cynical bullshit:
That count appeared to rise to 58 on Wednesday, when Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) agreed to back the bill.
Following in the craven footsteps of his dear friend Joe Lieberman…
I thought I couldn’t be anymore disgusted by Tom Carper, but he can always find a way to turn the dial further. So much for DD’s plan to to counter the Republicans with Vetos and Democratic Unity.
Why on earth are we not using the keystone pipeline deal to push through legislation that would end tax subsidies for oil and expand incentives for alternative energy? I hate the pipeline; it stinks to high heaven AND I’m still actually unclear what role congress really has in it. Permits still must be issued at the state and local level; land amassed etc… This sucker is going to court no matter what and its not likely to be completed anytime soon. SO, fine. Lend your support to it, but only if the good you can get out of it outweighs the bad. Aggressive tax incentives for green energy could make the pipeline obsolete before construction (and lawsuits) is complete!
PS – Carper’s facebook page applauds the Climate agreement with China; how can he possibly support those actions and sign on to the keystone bill?
“Why on earth are we not using the keystone pipeline deal to push through legislation…?”
Cinchy. Because that’s what a political party would do.
WE have to save Mary Landrieu? A wholly-owned subsidiary of Big Oil?
Practically the definition of why Democrats didn’t come out to vote.
TC and his cronies are gonna try to push through the pipeline using the blatant rationale of trying to save some DINO’s butt.
Is there a more craven senator than Tom Carper? I can’t think of one. “Pretending to Be A Democrat for Over 30 Years”.
This support by Carper is an outrage. As a recent transplant here from Houston, we were painfully close to Cancer Alley where the refineries are that will process that sludge. This is harmful to the already harmed Houston environment, harmful to the landowners along the pipeline’s east Texas route and an environmental disaster. I’ve written Sen. Carper on this, not expecting he’ll reverse his support but I owe it to my Houston friends to try.
But Stan, the pipeline will create 50 permanent jobs. Also – Bipartisanship!
I voted green because of this kind of crap. Its all posturing with no depth or value for average people. And exactly, want a deal, cut off tax breaks/subsidities. Whose going to pay when the oceans rise and the rain stops falling on the grain belt?
Man, how do we fix corrupt and ignorant?
Nothing says freedom from foreign oil like allowing Canada to pump their toxic sludge across our country to a port so they can export it around the world.
Canada is already working on a plan for pipelines east and west in their own country.
Not to give too much credit, but Carney just voted against it in the House. Makes Carper’s betrayal even more obvious….bipartisanship should not equal surrender to the other side and their corporate overlords.
“Canada is already working on a plan for pipelines east and west in their own country.”
And it, too, will be stymied by the First Nations. If they could have built it through Canada they would have done that in the first place.
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060001503
“Not to give too much credit, but Carney just voted against it in the House.”
It’s something.