{"id":26024,"date":"2017-01-25T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26024"},"modified":"2017-01-25T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:07:06","slug":"crude-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/crude-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day I express my gratitude in  prayer to God that the earth has survived another day in which very small hands have access to the nuclear football.  Unfortunately the Potomac Polluter has been making some crude decisions, so crude, in fact, that they make it clear that the Fuhrer has more than one way to destroy the world.<\/font><\/p>\n

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It took President Obama most of two terms to decide to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline. His administration wrestled openly for months before concluding that it would look for alternative routes for the Dakota Access pipeline.<\/p>\n

President Trump needed just five days in office to begin trying to reverse both decisions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When Obama announced in November 2015 that he was rejecting Keystone XL, which would have transported oil from Canada\u2019s tar sands to an existing pipeline in the United States, international meetings that would lead to the historic Paris climate accord were just weeks away. The former president made clear that he was concerned about his environmental legacy and the world\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

"America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change," Obama said at the time. "And, frankly, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership."<\/p>\n

When Trump announced his executive actions on Tuesday to try to revive the Keystone XL pipeline, which would extend from northern Alberta to Nebraska, as well as the Dakota Access pipeline, which would run through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois, there was no talk of climate change or global environmental leadership.<\/p>\n

Among his motives, he told reporters: \u201ca lot of jobs<\/strong>.\u201d… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <LA Times<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

By "a lot" Pumpkin Pinocchio means 35 permanent jobs for Keystone XL and a lesser number for DAPL.  In addition, Trump is invested in both pipelines, and since Transamerica is a Canadian company, his action criminally violated the emoluments clause in the Constitution.<\/font><\/p>\n

If that isn’t bad enough, the Republican War on  Mother Earth is far, far worse, as Rachel Maddow<\/a> explains.<\/font><\/p>\n