Obama says he "Would be Crazy to want high gas prices in election year" Senate backs Obama in pipeline rejection

Obama is not crazy, he is just a power driven ideologue who wants to fundamentally alter the place of strength of this nation to his own low egalitarian world view.

Senate backs Obama in pipeline rejection - Washington Times
Thursday, March 8, 2012 By Stephen Dinan

Democratic senators voted Thursday to ratify President Obama's decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, leaving the project in limbo but ensuring it remains a political issue through this year's elections.

Mr. Obama personally lobbied Democrats to support his decision, and was rewarded when 42 of them sided with him — enough to sustain a filibuster against a GOP-led effort to undo the president's rejection.

"The Democrat-controlled Senate just turned its back on job creation and energy independence," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican. "President Obama's personal pleas to wavering senators may have tipped the balance against this legislation. When it comes to delays over Keystone, anyone looking for a culprit should now look no further than the Oval Office."

Also Thursday, the Senate rejected an effort by Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, to force the administration to cut $10 billion in duplicative programs out of the federal budget, and turned back another effort to expand offshore oil- and gas-drilling permits.

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