Senate Dems Put Steyer’s Billions Over US Jobs, Hand Louisiana to GOP

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Great work guys. Tom Steyer’s checks will be in the mail.

This is another reminder of why the Dems lost the Senate, the House and America. They’re in thrall to special interests while not caring at all about American jobs.

Senate Democrats narrowly defeated a bill 59 to 41 that would have approved the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, rebuffing their Democratic colleague, Senator Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, who had hoped to muscle the legislation through in advance of her uphill runoff election fight back home.

The House, which passed the same legislation on Friday, had voted multiple times already to approve the pipeline. But Tuesday’s vote marked the first time this year that the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, agreed to hold on a vote on the bill, which he feared could have hurt the re-election changes of some of his more vulnerable members.

Even Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, who did not support the bill and said Keystone XL stood for “extra lethal,” was sure to note that credit for the legislation belonged to Ms. Landrieu.

“Senator Landrieu is the only reason that we are debating this today,” Ms. Boxer said. “Set the politics aside. Let the record be clear forever: This debate would not be before this body were it not for Senator Landrieu’s insistence.”

If you can follow the rotting mass of hypocrisy and lies that is Barbara Boxer’s brain…

1. The Keystone pipeline is super-evil

2. Senator Landrieu should get all the credit for it.

The vote only went forward as an empty face-saving gesture for Landrieu while still covering Obama’s ass so he doesn’t have to actually put the tattered shreds of his popularity on the line by vetoing a popular bill. That meant that there was no way this was going to pass.

Harry Reid only let it get this far because he’s mad at Obama. But the Dems are still not going to let it go through because they answer to a donor class based out of San Fran that leans heavily into Green Energy subsidies and they want more good money tossed away after bad.

Add on the angry activists who can always be counted on to pop up and the die is cast. The Dems lose Louisiana alongside Arkansas and West Virginia, but Bloomberg and Tom Steyer keep sending checks to the minority party to run attack ads.

  • firedup49

    It would be nice for Tom Styer with all his money would put it to some good as in charities, there are many homeless veterans real American citizen families.

    • Bash Brannigan

      No chance of that! Tom Steyer just wants what Tom Steyer wants. There is nothing altruistic about him….well, I’m sure he cares for his farm animals at his south-of-SF ranch on the Hwy 1 coast that he travels back and forth to. What a life!

  • http://www.aol.com/ Fongzilla1970

    Not only are the green energy goons involved it is also about protecting George Soros’ Brazilian Petrobras oil company that the Obama regime gave drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico over American companies. Also Warren Buffett’s railroad stands to lose out on shipping profits if the pipeline goes through.

  • UCSPanther

    Chugga-Chugga-Choo-Choo! I hear a windfall for Warren Buffet’s Express!

    • kasandra

      Well, let’s not forget that it makes Keystone opponents Daryl Hannah and Jackson Browne feel still relevant. I think that alone is good reason for the Ds to screw over the American people and defy their clearly expressed will.