via WSJ.com
The central conflict of the Obama Presidency has been between the jobs and growth crisis he inherited and the President’s hell-for-leather pursuit of his larger social-policy ambitions. The tragedy is that the economic recovery has been so lackluster because the second impulse keeps winning.
Yesterday came proof positive with the White House’s repudiation of the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada’s $7 billion shovel-ready project that would support tens of thousands of jobs if only it could get the requisite U.S. permits. Those jobs, apparently, can wait.
Unless the President objected, December’s payroll tax deal gave TransCanada the go-ahead in February to start building the pipeline, which would travel 1,661 miles from Alberta to interconnections in Oklahoma and then carry Canadian crude to U.S. refiners on the Gulf Coast.
via Review & Outlook: The Anti-Jobs President – WSJ.com.
Post Published: 19 January 2012
Author: politisite
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Barack Obama,
U.S. Politics,
White House
Tags: Alberta, Anti-Jobs, Barack Obama, Canada, jobs can wait, Keystone, Keystone Pipeline, Oklahoma, pipeline, president, TransCanada, United States, White House, XL
