Trump issued a permit in March for Keystone XL’s construction – something that former President Barack Obama and other environmental activists had warned could do more harm than good.
TransCanada’s Russ Girling accused Obama of “choosing misplaced symbolism over merit and science, and allowed rhetoric to win out over reason”
Climate activist Bill McKibben expressed jubilation after President Obama announced his decision to deny the Keystone XL pipeline.
There must be ten or twenty immediate reasons a person can give for opposing a foreign corporation, TransCanada’s crusade to build a dangerous tar sand pipeline across America’s heartland, and they are all valid. However, the overriding, and immediate, cause for alarm should be the devastation tar sand development, production, and transport will have on…
What is missing from the long list of Koch demands to abolish virtually the entire government is exactly how it will help Americans.
Boehner’s reaction to Senate dysfunction is to claim a change of leadership in the Senate has given us a Senate that is actually working.
The idea that Republicans would ever go along with further regulating the oil industry is laughable, and funding? Forget about it
Unwilling to do anything to help Americans, John Boehner concocts some more self-serving lies to blame Obama for his own failings
In the final analysis this is government of, by, and for the people, not a group of oil-drenched Koch-whores in Congress
John Boehner continues to pretend he cares about jobs while pushing his Keystone XL get rich quick scheme on the American people
Boehner twisted history to claim that “the American people can’t afford a repeat of the same old top-down policies of the past”
During the Tuesday broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough claimed “climate alarmists” are denying science by opposing the extension of the Keystone oil pipeline.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) didn’t hold anything back when he called the Senate’s passage of a bill that authorized the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline crazy.
GOP Senators killed amendments requiring Keystone oil be kept in the U.S., and mandating that the pipeline be built with U.S. steel.
The sad fact of Republican fact-checking is that their fact-checking needs to be fact-checked, and this was never more true last night.
Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK) highlights the new Congress’s work to “restore truly representative government that puts the people’s priorities first”
Keystone XL will create 35 permanent jobs, not even one person from every state in the Union. Maybe we should have a lottery for each state!
Most of what passes for newspapers these days are embarrassingly partisan rags and feature, above all else, totally irresponsible right-wing opinion detritus hardly worth a second glance. U.S. dailies are little more than Republican propaganda sheets.
Krystal Ball helpfully refuted such falsehoods, such as the pipeline will lead to lower gas prices or energy independence, the coup de grace came when she quoted a State Department report regarding the number of jobs that will be created by the project.
Senate Democrats have blocked a bill that would have authorized the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
During his appearance on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) shut down host Chris Wallace’s attempt to get him to agree with Republican talking points regarding the Keystone XL pipeline.
Much excitement was to be had at the opening of Representative Brad Wenstrup’s (R-OH) weekly Republican address, as he opened it with promises of getting back to work for the American people.
On Tuesday evening, it was announced that the United States and China had come to an agreement to reduce carbon emissions and increase sustainable energy consumption.
Even if some Americans do grasp the concept of Republicans as the ultimate takers, they likely fail to comprehend that the GOP are ultimately monumental givers; it is that spirit of generosity that drives their habit of robbing the people.
I recently assessed the governor’s race and the statewide races, all squarely in the Republican column unless all that voter fraud we’ve heard so much about comes rising to the fore. I’d like to limit my next observations to the seven races for the Congressional House Seats.
During President Obama’s tenure in the Oval Office, conservative pundits and Republican politicians have continuously blamed him anytime the price of gasoline has jumped up. Interestingly, those same voices tend to grow very quiet whenever we see a drop in the price.
At roughly 3:00 PM EST on the last day of January, the NY Times graced my email inbox with the headline, “Report may ease way to approval of Keystone pipeline.”
On Tuesday morning, at a breakfast discussing the State of the Union address later in the evening, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) told reporters that President Obama is on dangerous ground on his use of executive orders.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made an appearance on Fox News Sunday this Sunday. McConnell basically stated that the Republicans will once again try to use the debt limit as a hostage to get what they want.
On Saturday morning, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) was chosen by the Republicans to make their weekly address. He claimed that Republicans have passed dozens of jobs bills.
On Tuesday, after the Senate passed a bill to extend unemployment insurance to the long-term unemployed, and President Obama held a press conference requesting the GOP-led House to also pass it, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement.
“They don’t like the constitution, they don’t love this country, they don’t appreciate the greatness of America, they don’t think of this country the way I do”
The tea party wants to sell what doesn’t belong to them, stealing our heritage to enrich themselves and the corporations that own them
The dirty energy fascist Koch Brothers are planning to make tens of billions of dollars off the KeystoneXL pipeline before the tar ever enters American territory.
The threat of a government shutdown and credit default Republicans promise are not about spending, debt and deficit, or even the ACA; it is about ending the nation’s representative democracy.
The trend to label ordinary American activists as domestic terrorists is alarming, bringing to new reasons to revisit the PATRIOT act.
As economic stewards, Republicans have shown themselves to be abject failures on every front whether it is driving millions of Americans into poverty or creating hardship for businesses.
House Republicans praised Exxon and expect Americans to give them a “pat on the back” for saddling taxpayers with the cost of cleaning up their tar spill.
This amazing aerial footage of the Arkansas oil spill should make Americans question why Republicans are touting Keystone as a ‘no brainer’.
It is unfortunate, but Republicans and some Democrats are plodding ahead as if America’s exceptionalism will protect it from catastrophes even as they are occurring right before their eyes.
A bipartisan group of Senators decided that the oil industry should makes decisions reserved for the Executive Branch and they introduced a bill giving Congress supremacy over the President.
The increased oil production is not all good news for Americans though, because the glut of oil is keeping gas prices curiously high.
The President and Democrats could protect the environment and Americans’ health if they informed the people that Canadian tar sand is not coming to America, but through it to China.
Republicans have acquiesced to a foreign corporation’s demand they be given the authority to raise gas prices, endanger the water supply, and impede farmers right to produce crops to feed the nation.
Mitt Romney wants Americans to know what the first day of a Romney presidency would look like, based on his most recent position flip-flops
House Speaker John Boehner spins his tired old talking points, a more than metaphorical raspberry to any real discussion of either problems or possible solutions
Republicans have been hiding a dirty little secret. The Keystone XL pipeline will actually raise gas prices for the American people.
The more one discovers the amount of influence the oil industry exerts on members of Congress, the more important campaign finance reform becomes necessary to shift power back to the people.
As the SEC considers an investigation,a national petition is calling on John Boehner to resign or face expulsion from Congress for ethics violations.
By pushing a pipeline that only benefits the Canadian companies that he invested in, John Boehner’s behavior is unethical and grounds for expulsion from the House.
By denying the Keystone XL pipeline permit, President Obama may have prevented a repeat of the BP oil disaster that would have decimated America’s Heartland.
It is no surprise that the COC is pushing for passage of the bill, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) because the Chamber advocates censorship to protect Internet monopolies.