Senate Blocks Keystone Pipeline Bill, 11 Democrats Defect
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate killed Republican-backed attempts to overturn several of President Barack Obama’s environmental and energy policies Thursday as lawmakers worked against a March 31 deadline to keep aid flowing to more than 100,000 transportation construction projects around the country.
The two-year, $109 billion transportation bill before the Senate has wide, bipartisan support, but has become a magnet for lawmakers’ favorite causes and partisan gamesmanship. Among the amendments batted aside were GOP proposals to bypass Obama’s concerns about the Keystone XL oil pipeline, to delay tougher air pollution standards for industrial boilers and to expand offshore oil drilling.
Action on those and other amendments came under an agreement between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., aimed at clearing the way for passage of the transportation bill next week.
Obama lobbied some Senate Democrats by telephone ahead of the Keystone vote, urging them to oppose an amendment by Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., that would have prevented the president from intervening in decisions related to construction of the pipeline and would have speeded its approval. Pointing to the administration’s environmental concerns about the project, which would carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast, Republicans accused Obama of standing in the way greater oil supplies at a time when Americans are coping with rising gasoline prices.
But some Democrats, especially those from oil producing states, were torn between support for the pipeline and their support for the president. The amendment was defeated 56-42, even though 11 Democrats broke ranks to support it. Sixty votes were needed for passage.
Republican leaders jumped on the White House lobbying.
“Most Americans strongly support building this pipeline and the jobs that would come with it,” McConnell said in a statement.
The president’s lobbying against the Keystone provision came “a week after the president signaled to me and to Sen. McConnell that he might be willing to work with us on some bipartisan steps forward on energy legislation that the American people support,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters. “If we’re going to have bipartisan action on energy, the Keystone pipeline is an obvious place to start.”
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama felt it was “wrong to play politics” with the pipeline, especially since the company behind the project has said it still was working on a final route that might satisfy environmental concerns. He also said it was “false advertising” to suggest the amendment would have any impact on gasoline prices.
Also defeated was an amendment by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, which would have forced the Environmental Protection Agency to rewrite a rule requiring boiler operators to install modern emissions controls. Boilers are the second-largest source of toxic mercury emissions after coal-fired power plants. Collins said the EPA’s rule would drive some manufacturers out of business.
And the Senate turned down an amendment to expand offshore oil drilling even though its sponsor, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., contended it would increase domestic energy supplies and reduce gas prices.
The transportation bill itself would overhaul federal transportation programs, including boosting aid to highway and transit programs, streamline some environmental regulations in order to speed up approval of projects and consolidate dozens of programs.
Lawmakers are under pressure to act quickly because the government’s authority to collect about $110 million a day in federal gasoline and diesel taxes and to spend money out of the trust fund that pays for highway and transit programs expires at the end of the month. Chris Bertram, a Transportation Department official, said that if Congress doesn’t meet the deadline, aid to about 130,000 transportation projects around the country will be disrupted and federal workers who send that money to states will be furloughed.
The construction industry, already suffering 17.7 percent unemployment at the end of January, would be especially hurt.
House Republicans crafted their own five-year, $260 billion bill, but they’ve been unable to marshal the support of rank-and-file lawmakers behind it. Conservatives say it spends too much money, while moderates say it would penalize union workers and undermine environmental provisions.
Boehner conceded Thursday that for the moment the House’s best option is to take up the Senate bill after it passes – “or something like it” – although GOP leaders were still talking to their members in the hope of resurrecting their bill.
The inability of House Republicans to pass a highway bill of their own is an example of a paralysis that has struck several times in the past year. Last summer, an impasse over labor issues and subsidies for rural airports led to a two-week shutdown of non-essential Federal Aviation Administration operations.
In December, Boehner overrode his own rank-and-file when he agreed to a deal to extend the Social Security payroll tax cut after most lawmakers had gone home.
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chicago76
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:40pmWhich democrats defected? The ones who want to get re-elected. But, just enough did not so that it would not pass. Another game played by the democrats in the Senate. All democrats need to go home and stay at home from the Senate.
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:13amAnd leave the anal-retentive Republicans running the country? NO THANKS!!! The Democrats may be bad but the alternative would be so much worse…
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:22amQuestion is is which Republicans sided with the Democrats to defeat this?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:25amChicago – I have to agree with you, get the Democrats out of there; at the least some has the moral courage to stand up against Reid and vote for what was right for the country. The Washington Times Opinion has an article on how desperate Reid has become to stay in power (if the sources are actually telling the truth) so now that Obama has abandoned most of the Democrats for his self rule as a soon to be autocratic dictatorship, this may be the beginning of the end for the old DC guard of both sides.
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:55amThis is what I was able to glean so far -
“Democratic senators who voted for the Republican Keystone plan included Max Baucus and Jon Tester of Montana, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Jim Webb of Virginia.
Two Republican senators were absent, and all the 45 who were present voted for the amendment.”
From Reuters. And sorry Mz McCaskill… a little too little, a little too late.
Report Post »Amos37
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 1:10amit’s obvious that Obama and his fellow demons want america to fail.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 2:52am@Whinedude
Report Post »Gee, where have I heard that before??? Let’ see, oh, yeah ! “Without my stimulus we’d be worese off. Yeah, I spend 50% more than is logical , but if I hadn’t, we’d be worse off”
jujubeebee
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 4:27amYes, eleven were given the pass to vote against it, with Harry making sure the bill would die but those eleven could save their skins with the voters. More showbiz politics. Those eleven need to go also! Winedud needs to put the cork back in the wine bottle.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 4:41amClaire McCaskill is trying to paint herself as a moderate or independent. She has backed Obama on everything. Her being re-elected matters to the Democrats and thus she was allowed to defect on purpose. This is politics. You cannot look at who voted what right now…right before voting time! You need to look at the totality of their record. Expect her ads for re-election to be bragging on this vote to distract from everything else on her record! Even the media needs to quit with talking about this like it is not rigged and those eleven really voted their conscience. I don’t believe it for one second. The only time I will actually believe it is if the slime in Washington actually get something passed that is against their party! They counted those votes ahead and gave those who needed image help a pass to vote against it…knowing it would not matter because Harry had the votes to defeat the bill. POLITICS!!!! I wouldn’t pat anyone on the back for a vote to defect on party. Harry Reid knew what the count was and who was vulnerable for losing their seat!
Report Post »hireLarryFireBobby
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:02amthe pipeline is UN-NEEDED only serves export profiteering polluters, violates tribal lands, poisoning soils along every leak & during construction… THE STEEL FOR THIS PIPELINE IS SORELY NEEDED for hydrogen engines, trains, trams & solar electric busses to end gridlock & solve future pollution problems causing global warming…. wake up Blaze ditto heads, you need green jobs with living wages not giving in to the people who poison your children, your water & your air 843-926-1750 Larry Carter Center
Report Post »Goodforall
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:17amObummer said it was wrong to play politics with this-are you fgreaking kidding me? He lobbies against it and then, as usual, lies through his teeth. When will someone call this imposter out?
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:05am@Hire &Fire
Report Post »Damn you libs don’t understand history- do you. The rail system in this country was killed- it’s DEAD!
The pipeline violating “tribal lands”, I am offended that you would think that the federal govcernment is in any way satisfying the terms of ANY treaty made with native americans – EVER. There is “despoiling of trbal lands and poisoning of water, etc. and the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is sitting right there watching it being done. “Standing Rock” 3 affiliated tribes reservation, western NorthDakota. The steel is all =nneded for high speed rail, levition, hydrogen engines. Heres a coo;l statistic. for you to chew on more steel, manufactured in the US is used in bottle caps than the auto industry. Besides- the Russians are gong back into the long closed Measbi iron range of Minnesota, so all we have to do is buy the steel from them, , here!
P8riot
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 10:34amThat’s what I first realized! It had nothing to do with what these 11 democrats believed – they were TOLD who would vote for the bill so it would pass yet the democrats in SWING STATES were told to vote against it so they can be re-elected. Like others have said, which republicans voted against it???
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:30pmYour posts are excellent ,thank for your efforts ,
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:29pmthe SOCIALIST evita obama tax n speech i heard CALLED manyt senators to VOTE NO on this needed OIL pipeline form canada.. obama is ANTI american yet he funnelks BILLIONS to his “FRIENDS” time to force out obama IMPEACHMENT NOW save america
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:50pmRead RAZORHUNTERS post below..Good reason for Impeachment
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:24amI guess that MCDAVE is a LOT smarter than I am…he was actually able to figure out WTF you were trying to say.
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:48amPlease explain to me why this oil from Canada is needed. We were a net exporter of oil in 2011 (that means we sold more than we imported). We don’t need more oil, we need more refineries to process the crude oil. Keystone Pipeline is nothing more than a useless political football.
Report Post »INHOC
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 1:01am@WINEDUDE “Please explain to me why this oil from Canada is needed. We were a net exporter of oil in 2011 (that means we sold more than we imported). We don’t need more oil, we need more refineries to process the crude oil.”
You obviously don’t understand the difference between CRUDE petroleum and REFINED petroleum products. Yes we are a net exporter of REFINED products. However, we still net import CRUDE oil, a great deal of which comes from out friends in the Middle East. Typical uneducated Obama supporter. Nice try though
Report Post »K Clark
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 2:41am@WINEDUDE – The US was a net exporter of gas, not oil. We need to get that heavy crude from Canada down to Texas where we have refineries capable of handling heavy crude. Once that is accomplished, Venezuela‘s threats will mean nothing since we won’t be buying oil from them anymore.
Report Post »Square Dancer
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:17amOnce again…unless you have been in the liquid oil pipeline business , like I was for more than 2 decades, you don’t know what you are writing about. Before posting, do a little research.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:18am@Whiney
Report Post »So- according to your statement we ARE petroleumn exporters. Following that line of thought(sic), there is no need to ever have imported oil. But the trade deficit for years has been explained as the cost of imported oil. I believe, somewhere around $400 billion.(calculated at lower prices). With the slow economy, decreased incomes, and a warm einter( that means less fuel used by the way), obviously the dynamics have changed- temporarily. The situation can change quickly. Talk to your mommy and daddy’s friends, ,They may remember the gas lines of the 70′s. And you argue that the pipeline will do nothing- it WOULD have at least secured the supply side. .
Netsurfer2
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:27pmI live in Washington State and I heard on the News today that our state has windmill generators that also supply energy to our electric power plants and we have an abundance, but our State wants to shut them down and charge us more for electricity! Now if that isn’t crazy, I really don’t know what is!
Do you notice every State that a Democrat governs is always highly taxed with a very high cost of living? Our wages don’t at all reflect the increase of inflation and taxes that we pay! I am not far from moving out of this State and going somewhere where it costs less to live and you still make a decent wage!
We need to get the cost of oil down and rid our dependency from other countries! Even though the keystone is coming from Canada, I would rather pay them than the crooked Arabs!
Getting the Dem’s out of office would be my first solution! Time to clean house!
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:45pmI just heard on the replay of O’Reilly the exact same thing. That the Govt is now paying these Wind Energy Co’s to now shut down temporarily. I did not really get it until I read your post. GM is shutting down the Volt production, not to mention all of the other failures of the Green self sufficient BS. I sure hope that the GOP nominee has good researchers to keep this Gas thing going. It may not be all of Obamas fault, but the things that he is doing and saying now in an election year surely people need to understand that they are not going get better when/if he does get four more years.
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:16amEnlighten me as to why an amendment that would have required any refined petroleum products from the Keystone Pipeline in the United States was defeated. Exactly why do we need to build a pipeline to benefit Canada and China? We’re already a net exporter of oil, so at the moment, more drilling isn’t going to be terribly helpful in the current gasoline price run up.
Report Post »Carlos1
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:37amI live near the Los Angeles Harbor. The docks are piled high with windmill components… off loaded from CHINA! I wondered who was buying all that crap.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:21am@Whiney
Report Post »Yeah! and we’ve (actually the oil compamnies) been exporting refined oil products for weeks now! Ain’t that just some hot 5hit!
Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:33am@Whiney
Report Post »Put down the keyboard, and take your “Ridalin” . Your BOI vetoesd the pipeline. The only pipeline that is going to be built will be from Edmonton to Vancover. You can rest easy, we won;t be getting of that nasty, poisonous, land infecting, babykilling, adult sterliizing, air polluting, water contaminating, spirit killing, economical, efficient fossil fuel. And in a year, when DC manages to shut down production on private lands, and the price goes WAY North, you’llbe able to look back on this day with satiisfaction.
happ77
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 11:32amHey winodud
Report Post »If we don’t build it then they build a pipeline to Vancover and the oil
goes to China. If we do build it that makes us less dependant on
the arabs when the SHTF. We already have about 650,000 miles of pipelines, how many
caravans of oil tanker trucks have you seen on the roads?? How do
you think jet fuel gets to the airports ??
COFemale
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:21pmI say F them. They don’t follow the Constitution anyway, I just say dig the trench, lay the pipeline anyway. I think this should be a state issue not a federal issue.
Report Post »Valkaneer
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:17pmWhat were the republican names that voted for the bill, and why did the Blaze leave those names out.. It’s kinda important. The truth has no agenda??? When you only tell have the story and lead with a story that blames only democrates how can you say there is no agenda????
Report Post »Valkaneer
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:22pmOpps i ment against the bill (not for it).
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:23pmthis will come back to haunt them. Don’t let this go.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:29pmAll the Republicans voted for this and 11 Democrats defected in favor of it. This passage was blocked by Obama’s goon squad (hardcore Obama backers) in the Senate. They needed 60 votes to pass it, and fell 4 short.
Come on, read the story….
Report Post »EP46
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 6:49amNot a single Republican voted against the bill
Report Post »iac
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:17pmSo Oblamer and the Dems want to produce jobs ( snicker, laugh ) and make America more energy independent ( gaffaw, LOL ). They just don‘t want to vote ’YES’ on the matter. Logical. We get it, right?
Report Post »desert buckeye
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:03pmWell, on the bright side, this vote will make a hell of an ad…illustrating the ‘demorats’ opposition to cheaper energy and plentiful jobs. Democrats! The greatest threat to our economic and personal freedoms!
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:23amHow is this a vote against cheaper energy? The US oil production has been going up every year for the last 5 years and we were net exporters of petroleum (that’s OIL to you moronic Teabaggers). We haven’t built a new refinery for at least 10 years. And we live in a global market. Granted that Obama isn’t a big fan of petroleum as an energy source but first we need refineries to use the oil before we defile the ground trying to pull more out of it.
Report Post »INHOC
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 1:17amAgain, although we net export petroleum PRODUCTS we still net import crude oil. How is it that hard to understand?
Report Post »hogtrashhd
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:55pmwho were the republicans that voted with the president.. last I heard we had 48 or so republican senators.. that makes it 31 republicans who voted for the pipeline because 11 democrats voted with the republicans… who are the 15 or so (leftist infiltrators) republicans who voted with the president???? how’s that for THE question???
Report Post »magsdad
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:27pmDude…all the repubs who voted, voted FOR the bill,,,even the 2 from Maine…11 Dems also voted FOR..2 Repubs didn’t vote (ala Obama) for some reason…Even with those 2, it would have failed by 2 votes.
Report Post »Less1leg
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:55pmThe Blaze also doesn’t know that Obama backroom advisors are pressuring Canadian activist groups financially and indirectly from the White House. These people are interferring with a soverign country, a neighbouring country that has been a good friend and trusted friend for more than two hundred years. But that situation may come to a head over deliberate attempts within the Obama Administration to use Chicago Style political savy in a foreign country’s domestic policy. Wars have been started over this stuff. And the Obama team feels they have a divine right of insurrection within Canadian domestic policy. Sending money and advisory support to interfer with the Northern Gateway Pipeline. That pipeline doesn’t have anything to do with US oil. But the Obama team feels it has a right to stop oil production and distribution totally within a foreign country’s territiory.
Report Post »Like Stephan Harper has said, Canada has a right to its own soverignty. If Canada wish to sell to China or other nations, well that’s too bad for Obama. You didn’t want the oil, we’ll sell to the people who do want it.
Winedude
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:45amThe Keystone Pipeline has nothing to do with US oil. Why is this so darned important? Is it for the 5 or 6 thousand (Tops according to the Canadians) jobs? I just don‘t see the need if the oil isn’t staying here. There was an amendment to require the refined petroleum products (gasoline mostly) stay in the USA but it was defeated. The Keystone Pipeline is no longer about energy…it’s pure political nonsense.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:48am@Whiney
Report Post »Somewhere in Washingtom, DC, there is abureauacacy by the name of the Dept. of Energy. That worthless groupnwas formed specifically from the “Oil Shortage ” caused by OPEC, jThe only thing the DOE does now is hawk replacement windows made by the current ectreary of enrgy’s husbnd. I would guess that your daily interaction with a fuel pump is less than most, You don’t seem to understand the increase in prices, comes at a time of greatly diminished demand slow economy and warm(thank God!) winter allowsed for export. Don’t even try to blow smoke about how “production is up”, “billions in profits”, “exports negate trade deficit”. Those are all dynamic factors, without which Chu and Aboama would have their $8.0 gas.
MCDAVE
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:51pmRepublicans need to present this bill once a month between now and November,just to remind everyone that obama and his Democrats are all liars and traitors.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:33amReid allowed it to go to the floor…ONCE. He will not let that happen ever again as long as he holds the power.
Report Post »Less1leg
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:46pmThe United States is going to pay dearly for the deliberate destabilization of an ethical oil source and affordable oil source that could be delivered cheaply and safely to the United States. I fear what the ultra liberal Democrats are planning if a re-election of Obama occurs. The eco-liberals want a European price tag on domestic gas. You will see, $8.00 to $10 per gallon gas at the pumps. It will further push the US into “Forced Conservation” initiatives. Your unemployment will be driven up to 15%, and economic development pushed to zero.
Report Post »Voters better look out. Cuz this administration has a lot in store for Round Two Obama.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:35amYou are dead on right about that. This country cannot stand an 0bama 2.0
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 1:05amAgenda 21…….
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:29pmIn the absence of any reasonable explanation for killing this project..one can only assume all who voted against, must be getting well paid to betray America…They make me sick and have no right to call themselves Americans..they do not care about us,our country,or the economic damage the have caused…TREASON
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:12pmHit ‘em at the ballot box! And, write ‘Letters to the Editor’ of every damn newspaper you can think of in the interim!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:26pmMore PROOF we need to win Congress!!!! By a filibuster proof majority!!! The Presidential election is SECONDARY to this goal!
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:49pmWe have the majority in Congress if we can keep it. It’s the SENATE we need to take control of. Vote!
Report Post »magsdad
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:28pm“Congress” is House AND Senate.
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:08pmThe democrats in the Senate are the party of NO.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:01pm“Sixty votes were needed for passage.” Looks like Dingy Harry is O.K. with a minority of Senators stopping a bill after all.
Report Post »rukidnme
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:59pmwho were the repubs against?
Report Post »magsdad
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:29pmNO Repubs voted against….11 Dems voted in favor.
Report Post »BaltimoreJoe
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:56pmThese guys need to start thinking like DEMOCRATS!
Fed only in auth chain because it crosses a border…All states have approved the entire path.
Just start on the pipline from end to end INSIDE the US… and re-request auth from the feds for the last 500 ft… duh!
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:59pmit is time for a “come and take it!” moment with the federal government
Report Post »edotddot
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 2:25amYou’re forgetting the Commerce Clause. Feds have jurisdiction on interstate commerce.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:54pmobama is deliberately murdering America, there it is.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:50pmYes!! MURDER!!! lol
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:52pmIs this part of O-blah-blah’s laser focus on JOBS?
Report Post »Mess23
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:51pmThe Dems are signing the death certificate for this country, and Harry is the author…
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 7:58amNo, Barry is the author. Harry is just a useful idiot.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:47pmThis is how Washington works: If you have a great idea that everyone agrees upon, and you need 100M$ to do it, the republicans tack on a billion dollars of war pork and the democrats tack on a billion dollars of welfare pork. In the end, the original idea is watered down to nothingness, because 20 times the evil has been added. A few years later, another good idea will have pork added to it that completely destroys any advancement made in the original good idea. It is hopeless. Only guns and blood will solve this problem.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:07pmDo Ya mean “go postal”?
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:46pmi think the states should just let them build it. What are the feds going to do…send the tanks in?
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:44pmWhy were Kirk (IL) and Thune (SD) not present? That would have left only 2 Dems. needed.
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:53pmThe Roll Call of the vote.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00034
Report Post »sdhwrites
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 11:15amSenator Kirk (IL) is recovering from a stroke. Our prayers are with him.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:43pmThe Dictator would have vetoed it anyway.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:53pmThere isn’t enough duct tape to wrap around my head to keep it from exloding.
Hint to Congress – as designed by the Constitution – Congress is suppose to not vote in lock step wth the President – it is supposed to be separate and adversarial in nature
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:35pmKaybe…yup! I have already written my Congressman and Senator tonight. I figure if I can type comments, I can type an e-mail to them. I always start out nice and then tell them my concerns.
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