Comments on: Keystone Pipeline Delay Sparks Outrage on Capitol Hill http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/ The latest Politics news and blog posts from ABC News contributors and bloggers including Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos and more. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:25:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jim sholtes http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/#comment-15636141 jim sholtes Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:15:29 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=366711#comment-15636141 i dont understand why we need the president to approve this pipeline he's not a king; we need the oil.DAHHHHHHHHHH i dont understand why we need the president to approve this pipeline he’s not a king; we need the oil.DAHHHHHHHHHH

]]> By: Mark http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/#comment-15593821 Mark Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:40:55 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=366711#comment-15593821 This is the stupidest project ever. A giant pipeline carrying heavy, dirty oil through our best agricultural land and over one of the biggest aquifers. What could possibly go wrong?? Not only that, it only benefits the oil companies, since MOST OF IT WILL BE EXPORTED, and is expected to RAISE THE COST OF OIL AND GAS IN THE MIDWEST. It further dumps millions of tons of CO2 into the air, and only creates 3,800 low paying, transient McJobs. What the hell is there to like about this??? This is the stupidest project ever. A giant pipeline carrying heavy, dirty oil through our best agricultural land and over one of the biggest aquifers. What could possibly go wrong?? Not only that, it only benefits the oil companies, since MOST OF IT WILL BE EXPORTED, and is expected to RAISE THE COST OF OIL AND GAS IN THE MIDWEST. It further dumps millions of tons of CO2 into the air, and only creates 3,800 low paying, transient McJobs. What the hell is there to like about this???

]]> By: apetra http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/#comment-15586821 apetra Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:20:39 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=366711#comment-15586821 This is a do-nothing administration on jobs, energy and the quality of life for most Americans. Meanwhile, his utopian statist ideology and mythology of corporate dystopia is poisoning the country. This is a do-nothing administration on jobs, energy and the quality of life for most Americans. Meanwhile, his utopian statist ideology and mythology of corporate dystopia is poisoning the country.

]]> By: Kojak http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/#comment-15586361 Kojak Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:11:22 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=366711#comment-15586361 Jeff speaks the truth. You all on here whining about the ESTIMATE of the number of jobs it would've created probably wouldn't even qualify for any of those jobs. Why would the fat-cats building the pipeline hire the inexperienced when they can pull in experienced pipeline workers saving money from not having to train them. I'll say it again, nobody complaining about the loss of these phantom jobs has any qualifications to fill those positions. How many construction workers have been out of work and have decades of experience compared to yourselves? Now tell me why the fat-cats would hire you over a veteran? Jeff speaks the truth. You all on here whining about the ESTIMATE of the number of jobs it would’ve created probably wouldn’t even qualify for any of those jobs. Why would the fat-cats building the pipeline hire the inexperienced when they can pull in experienced pipeline workers saving money from not having to train them. I’ll say it again, nobody complaining about the loss of these phantom jobs has any qualifications to fill those positions. How many construction workers have been out of work and have decades of experience compared to yourselves? Now tell me why the fat-cats would hire you over a veteran?

]]> By: Jeff Slowbro http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/#comment-15578681 Jeff Slowbro Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:39:56 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=366711#comment-15578681 Leave it to the GOP STOOGES to use the mass media to make such a big, giant deal out of 20,000 jobs out of the 14,000,000 required to bring the nation any relief. The NO CONGRESS refuses to discuss any other way to get people back to work. So, what's 20,000 construction jobs as a percentage of our overall (stated) unemployment problem? Simple math: it's .00142%. Underwhelmed enough? That's less than 1% of 1% of our nation's unemployment problem. It's not 140,000 jobs; which would be 1%, wouldn't it? It's not 70,000 jobs; which would be 1/2 of 1%. No such luck. It's not even 35,000 jobs, is it? That would be 1/2 of 1/2 of 1% of our joblessness problem. Nope. It's 20,000 temporary construction jobs they offer, from the Canadian Tar Sands, the dirtiest form of energy we could harvest from the Americas and unleash into the air. Even if you think climate change is a remotest of risks, the consequences are so grave that you have to be dumb as dirt to just swallow industry propaganda and ignore it in favor of .001% TEMPORARY jobs. We could hire 100 times as many people people to rebuild and rehab our failing electric grid so it could collect and deliver energy from all over the nation in two directions, which it does not do now. And yet somehow, because they have the whole system rigged with bribes, kickbacks, payola and graft, right down to the STOOGES on Roger Ailes' FOX-GOPTV, overpaid, jingoist pill popping shills who wrap themselves in the flag to pitch these kinds of dirty deals for PROFITEERS every night and on the radio all day, I'd be wrong and overstating the case to call these STOOGES treasonous, right? Well I won't then. You be the judge. Note: these GOP STOOGES did not turn around to Tom Donohue (who makes $4.2 million per year as CEO) and their PROFITEERING masters at the 300,000 member cmpany Chamber of Commerce to say: "Hey, we need just 70,000 of you to sit down and find a way to hire 1 person each, even to just train them for future growth...". Most CEO's make 3 to 10 million per year. Could they not give back just $50,000 dollar to hire someone for the company and the nation? It's less than the fuel bill on their jets, or their 5th car. At just 70,000 jobs of their 300,000 members, it would be 3 times the jobs they are making a big deal out of in the media, but still just 1/2 of 1% of the jobs we need to get straight with the jobs and career casualties who perished when the Bush-Clinton-Baby Bush Express crashed. Nope-- these Boot Licking STOOGES sit back and wait for their marching orders from their PROFITEERING masters who came to propose the filthiest Energy project they could come up with to use against the other party, almost guaranteeing more GRIDLOCK to lock out competition, fair trade and ultimately the sick man of Earth-- CAPITALISM! They brought a project that was so well planned, according to these STOOGES, that it runs right through Nevada's so called Sand Hill, which is a massive aquifer that means clean water for farms for 1000 of miles. Of course they agreed to move it... if only the White House would give them a green light. Our media is no better. Journalists are either bought out by Fox or Fox type operations, where they are paid to shut up about monopolies, profiteering business practices. Or else, they are out of business, as newspapers and station without Newscorp's GOP-TV access to corrupted capital markets fold up. And so our once FREE PRESS is pawned, like our government and economy. The whole nation is GRIDLOCKED, from Rupert's Playhouse media invasion that's amusing us to death, to the Congress, right down to the price at your Walmart Chinese roving flea market cartel. The Chamber of Commerce claims a direct membership of 300,000 businesses, and 3 million through its various affiliates such as state and local chambers. Some of the Chamber’s members and donors are Goldman Sachs, Chevron, Texaco, and Aegon. These companies hire and fire more people in a week than these GOP STOOGES are offering with their 20,000 construction jobs. Feeding the reactionary zombie support for the PROFITEERS who have lobbied for the dirty pipe project, here is a list of the STOOGES in congress who voiced their dissent as soon as the president rejected the Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline project. PAID Congressional Keystone- XL Pipe Line STOOGES Tim Grifffin, R- AR Tom Reed, R-NY Steve Palazzo, R,Miss Eric Canter, R-VA Fred Upton, R-Mich Lee Terry, R-N Shelly Moore Capito, R-WV Marsha Blacstone, R-TN Leave it to the GOP STOOGES to use the mass media to make such a big, giant deal out of 20,000 jobs out of the 14,000,000 required to bring the nation any relief. The NO CONGRESS refuses to discuss any other way to get people back to work.

So, what’s 20,000 construction jobs as a percentage of our overall (stated) unemployment problem?

Simple math: it’s .00142%. Underwhelmed enough?

That’s less than 1% of 1% of our nation’s unemployment problem.
It’s not 140,000 jobs; which would be 1%, wouldn’t it?
It’s not 70,000 jobs; which would be 1/2 of 1%. No such luck.
It’s not even 35,000 jobs, is it? That would be 1/2 of 1/2 of 1% of our joblessness problem.

Nope. It’s 20,000 temporary construction jobs they offer, from the Canadian Tar Sands, the dirtiest form of energy we could harvest from the Americas and unleash into the air. Even if you think climate change is a remotest of risks, the consequences are so grave that you have to be dumb as dirt to just swallow industry propaganda and ignore it in favor of .001% TEMPORARY jobs.

We could hire 100 times as many people people to rebuild and rehab our failing electric grid so it could collect and deliver energy from all over the nation in two directions, which it does not do now.

And yet somehow, because they have the whole system rigged with bribes, kickbacks, payola and graft, right down to the STOOGES on Roger Ailes’ FOX-GOPTV, overpaid, jingoist pill popping shills who wrap themselves in the flag to pitch these kinds of dirty deals for PROFITEERS every night and on the radio all day, I’d be wrong and overstating the case to call these STOOGES treasonous, right? Well I won’t then. You be the judge.

Note: these GOP STOOGES did not turn around to Tom Donohue (who makes $4.2 million per year as CEO) and their PROFITEERING masters at the 300,000 member cmpany Chamber of Commerce to say: “Hey, we need just 70,000 of you to sit down and find a way to hire 1 person each, even to just train them for future growth…”.

Most CEO’s make 3 to 10 million per year. Could they not give back just $50,000 dollar to hire someone for the company and the nation? It’s less than the fuel bill on their jets, or their 5th car.

At just 70,000 jobs of their 300,000 members, it would be 3 times the jobs they are making a big deal out of in the media, but still just 1/2 of 1% of the jobs we need to get straight with the jobs and career casualties who perished when the Bush-Clinton-Baby Bush Express crashed.

Nope– these Boot Licking STOOGES sit back and wait for their marching orders from their PROFITEERING masters who came to propose the filthiest Energy project they could come up with to use against the other party, almost guaranteeing more GRIDLOCK to lock out competition, fair trade and ultimately the sick man of Earth– CAPITALISM! They brought a project that was so well planned, according to these STOOGES, that it runs right through Nevada’s so called Sand Hill, which is a massive aquifer that means clean water for farms for 1000 of miles. Of course they agreed to move it… if only the White House would give them a green light.

Our media is no better. Journalists are either bought out by Fox or Fox type operations, where they are paid to shut up about monopolies, profiteering business practices. Or else, they are out of business, as newspapers and station without Newscorp’s GOP-TV access to corrupted capital markets fold up.

And so our once FREE PRESS is pawned, like our government and economy. The whole nation is GRIDLOCKED, from Rupert’s Playhouse media invasion that’s amusing us to death, to the Congress, right down to the price at your Walmart Chinese roving flea market cartel.

The Chamber of Commerce claims a direct membership of 300,000 businesses, and 3 million through its various affiliates such as state and local chambers. Some of the Chamber’s members and donors are Goldman Sachs, Chevron, Texaco, and Aegon. These companies hire and fire more people in a week than these GOP STOOGES are offering with their 20,000 construction jobs.

Feeding the reactionary zombie support for the PROFITEERS who have lobbied for the dirty pipe project, here is a list of the STOOGES in congress who voiced their dissent as soon as the president rejected the Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline project.

PAID Congressional Keystone- XL Pipe Line STOOGES

Tim Grifffin, R- AR
Tom Reed, R-NY
Steve Palazzo, R,Miss
Eric Canter, R-VA
Fred Upton, R-Mich
Lee Terry, R-N
Shelly Moore Capito, R-WV
Marsha Blacstone, R-TN

]]> By: Jack Young http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/#comment-15576801 Jack Young Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:03:26 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=366711#comment-15576801 Sure.... O is for the working man! Sure…. O is for the working man!

]]> By: JMPABQ http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/#comment-15576791 JMPABQ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:03:16 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=366711#comment-15576791 Oh, so NOW the Republicans are going to focus on jobs creation -- especially since this is an election year. They've done nothing in the previous couple of years but roadblock every piece of legislation that been attempted in this regard. And Boehner is going to spin this pipeline thing every which way he can to try to make everyone who's not a Republican look bad -- again it's an election year. And those of you who think the pipeline is such a great idea -- I'm pretty sure you'll change your mind if it comes anywhere close to being built on your property. The pipeline is OK if they build it in someone else's backyard, right?? Oh, so NOW the Republicans are going to focus on jobs creation — especially since this is an election year. They’ve done nothing in the previous couple of years but roadblock every piece of legislation that been attempted in this regard. And Boehner is going to spin this pipeline thing every which way he can to try to make everyone who’s not a Republican look bad — again it’s an election year. And those of you who think the pipeline is such a great idea — I’m pretty sure you’ll change your mind if it comes anywhere close to being built on your property. The pipeline is OK if they build it in someone else’s backyard, right??

]]> By: SeaElk http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/#comment-15576601 SeaElk Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:00:14 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=366711#comment-15576601 Facts are that this project underwent approximately three years of study and was approved by this administration. That is until the environmental lobbying threatened to pull funding from Obama's re-election campaign only then did this administration announce they needed further studies to analyze the new route even after initially signing off on it. It was widely published that no decision could be made prior to 2013, which would have spared Obama any backlash until after the elections. This saved Obama from supporting the project which angered the environmental lobby or denying the project which in turn would anger the union lobby. The GOP was caught between a rock and a hard place because if they did nothing the project was in jeopardy because Canada made clear they would not wait a year for a decision. So, the GOP gambled on forcing the issue in the 60 day time frame making Obama take a stand one way or the other. The difficulty the GOP faced is precisely what is happening now and that is Obama shuffling the blame for this to the GOP when indeed the project would have gone to China had the Obama administration stuck to their stated timeline of 2013. So, for all those morons who don't see this for what it is and that is Obama playing to the environmental lobby while deflecting union anger towards the GOP are just plain ignorant or in denial. Facts are that this president only supports job creation when it placates his liberal special interests. Facts are that this project underwent approximately three years of study and was approved by this administration. That is until the environmental lobbying threatened to pull funding from Obama’s re-election campaign only then did this administration announce they needed further studies to analyze the new route even after initially signing off on it. It was widely published that no decision could be made prior to 2013, which would have spared Obama any backlash until after the elections. This saved Obama from supporting the project which angered the environmental lobby or denying the project which in turn would anger the union lobby. The GOP was caught between a rock and a hard place because if they did nothing the project was in jeopardy because Canada made clear they would not wait a year for a decision. So, the GOP gambled on forcing the issue in the 60 day time frame making Obama take a stand one way or the other. The difficulty the GOP faced is precisely what is happening now and that is Obama shuffling the blame for this to the GOP when indeed the project would have gone to China had the Obama administration stuck to their stated timeline of 2013. So, for all those morons who don’t see this for what it is and that is Obama playing to the environmental lobby while deflecting union anger towards the GOP are just plain ignorant or in denial. Facts are that this president only supports job creation when it placates his liberal special interests.

]]> By: gary http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/#comment-15576541 gary Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:59:06 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=366711#comment-15576541 I am a card carrying Republican, but this young black President just earned my vote and campaign contribution for doing what is right for the majority.POSTED BY: TEXASRANCHER | JANUARY 18, 2012, 3:40 PM----Nobody is buying that line of BS for sure. Take it on down the road. I am a card carrying Republican, but this young black President just earned my vote and campaign contribution for doing what is right for the majority.POSTED BY: TEXASRANCHER | JANUARY 18, 2012, 3:40 PM—-Nobody is buying that line of BS for sure. Take it on down the road.

]]> By: susan http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/boehner-says-obamas-jobs-policies-have-made-the-economy-worse/#comment-15575741 susan Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:42:38 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=366711#comment-15575741 He’s one of the reasons Congress has an 11% approval rating. POSTED BY: TMFERRETTI | JANUARY 18, 2012, 12:40 PM =====The other reason is that moron Harry Reid He’s one of the reasons Congress has an 11% approval rating.

POSTED BY: TMFERRETTI | JANUARY 18, 2012, 12:40 PM =====The other reason is that moron Harry Reid

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