FARK.com: (6860900) In pushing for quick approval of the Keystone pipeline, the oil industry's top lobbyist tells Obama that he's got real nice presidency there, it'd be a shame if something happened to it

		In pushing for quick approval of the Keystone pipeline, the oil industry's top lobbyist tells Obama that he's got real nice presidency there, it'd be a shame if something happened to it (boston.com)		126
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Kibbler

2012-01-05 08:32:28 AM

"Because if you don't do what we want, the people of the U.S. will unite behind...somebody give me a list of those GOP candidates..."

*pause, reads list*

"What the fark. Give me the real list."

*furious whispering*

"This is the real list?!?"

*storms out*

Jormungandr

2012-01-05 08:33:21 AM

And that 'top lobbyist' is still in washington, yes? Top lobbyist sounds like experienced whore.
I wonder if any of the resident fark right wing authoritarians will have anything to say about union involvement.

sprawl15

2012-01-05 08:33:38 AM

No, building a pipeline over our largest aquifer in the country to help Canada sell oil to China more easily is not in our national interest.

tedbundee

2012-01-05 08:34:04 AM

News flash: Anything the United States President does "will have huge political consequences."

LazarusLong42

2012-01-05 08:34:05 AM

Long term consequences? What are those? Never heard of such a thing.

steveGswine

2012-01-05 08:35:04 AM

It's his prerogative to say that; it's the President's prerogative to sign or not sign legislation.

As this was said in front of an industry association rather than to the President, I figure the one will have even less affect on the other than you'd guess.

HotWingConspiracy

2012-01-05 08:35:22 AM

It's simple, allow it to be built to placate the unions, then don't fund any security for it. Arrange for an accident to happen, then shut the farker down.

steveGswine

2012-01-05 08:36:55 AM

Effect. My bad. For fark's sake, someone bring me coffee. (new window)

cubic_spleen

2012-01-05 08:37:47 AM

fark the oil industry right in the ear.

If I could press a button and cause every lobbyist for a major industry to keel over dead, I would do so in a heartbeat and sleep well tonight.

Keep government out of businesses? Well, keep businesses out of the government first.

Alphax

2012-01-05 08:38:45 AM

Oil Industry's top lobbyist.. oh yeah, that sounds trustworthy.

At least his name isn't Morden.

elvisaintdead

2012-01-05 08:40:01 AM

FTA: "Gerard said the oil group has teamed up with at least 15 unions to support the pipeline, which would create thousands of jobs."

Translation: done deal.

Lupine Chemist

2012-01-05 08:43:38 AM

I'm certainly no Republican, but I don't get how the Dems cry out to build infrastructure all the damned time and then get pissed at a major infrastructure project.

OH NO! They may install a pipeline!

i.imgur.com

BlackCat23

2012-01-05 08:44:46 AM

Top. Lobbyists.

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make me some tea

2012-01-05 08:45:31 AM

cubic_spleen: Keep government out of businesses? Well, keep businesses out of the government first.

It's a symbiotic relationship, and has been for a long, long time.

Alphax

2012-01-05 08:45:55 AM

Lupine Chemist: I'm certainly no Republican, but I don't get how the Dems cry out to build infrastructure all the damned time and then get pissed at a major infrastructure project.

OH NO! They may install a pipeline!

[i.imgur.com image 600x283]

You call that an infrastructure project?

Might as well call someone running a gas main through the middle of your living room a home improvement.

Jake Havechek

2012-01-05 08:46:46 AM

Keystone is a scam.

Jormungandr

2012-01-05 08:48:18 AM

Lupine Chemist: I'm certainly no Republican, but I don't get how the Dems cry out to build infrastructure all the damned time and then get pissed at a major infrastructure project.

OH NO! They may install a pipeline!

[i.imgur.com image 600x283]

Compare your map to the location of that aquifer. You'll see why people have a problem with it.
Also as an Albertan I oppose the development. We're ruining our land fast enough up here already.
We're not getting all the royalties we're supposed to either, so fark the oil companies.

Rev.K

2012-01-05 08:49:01 AM

Kibbler: "Because if you don't do what we want, the people of the U.S. will unite behind...somebody give me a list of those GOP candidates..."

*pause, reads list*

"What the fark. Give me the real list."

*furious whispering*

"This is the real list?!?"

*storms out*

This is the funniest thing I have read today.

All other posts will be compared to this one.

make me some tea

2012-01-05 08:50:37 AM

Alphax: Lupine Chemist: I'm certainly no Republican, but I don't get how the Dems cry out to build infrastructure all the damned time and then get pissed at a major infrastructure project.

OH NO! They may install a pipeline!

[i.imgur.com image 600x283]

You call that an infrastructure project?

Might as well call someone running a gas main through the middle of your living room a home improvement.

Meanwhile we have bridges on the verge of collapse...

But hey, a pipeline. Cool.

Lost Thought 00

2012-01-05 08:52:39 AM

What could possibly go wrong? It's been almost a whole year since they destroyed an entire regional ecosystem, so obviously no government oversight pod the project is needed.

tedbundee

2012-01-05 08:55:12 AM

deadcrickets

2012-01-05 08:55:22 AM

FTA: "Gerard said the oil group has teamed up with at least 15 unions to support the pipeline, which would create thousands of jobs for illegal aliens."

Arkanaut

2012-01-05 08:56:44 AM

sprawl15: No, building a pipeline over our largest aquifer in the country to help Canada sell oil to China more easily is not in our national interest.

Wasn't there some alternate plan to build the pipeline around the aquifer? Why not go with that plan?

HotWingConspiracy: It's simple, allow it to be built to placate the unions, then don't fund any security for it. Arrange for an accident to happen, then shut the farker down.

That sounds like the worst of both worlds.

Lost Thought 00

2012-01-05 08:57:18 AM

Lupine Chemist: I'm certainly no Republican, but I don't get how the Dems cry out to build infrastructure all the damned time and then get pissed at a major infrastructure project.

OH NO! They may install a pipeline!

The point is to build infrastructure that induces greater economic activity in this country. The proposed pipeline does not do that.

HotWingConspiracy

2012-01-05 08:57:53 AM

Arkanaut: HotWingConspiracy: It's simple, allow it to be built to placate the unions, then don't fund any security for it. Arrange for an accident to happen, then shut the farker down.

That sounds like the worst of both worlds.

I'm just trying to make everyone happy.

Splinshints

2012-01-05 09:01:55 AM

It'll create jobs! Don't you want jobs!? This isn't like the other five dozen things that were going to create jobs and didn't. This one will stick!

Lupine Chemist: Dems cry out to build infrastructure all the damned time and then get pissed at a major infrastructure project.

I didn't have a problem with it until the republicans decided to use it as a political chip against the administration. That tells me it's not infrastructure, it's bullshiat.

Tickle Mittens

2012-01-05 09:02:55 AM

Sweet here's my plan Mr. President:

Using your newly acquired unprecedented authority to detain US citizens without trial, form a special committee of Fred Ward, Wilford Brimley, and some random black guy to pick oil executives through some manner of their choosing for extraterritorial rendition. The rendition will be carried out by a team of loose cannon Seattle Police Officers specially trained in hand to hand combat by Joel Grey, and also to think everyone in their custody is probably Mexican. Wait for the rest of your problems to solve themselves.

Friend_Computer

2012-01-05 09:03:29 AM

Threaten the guy that sent SEALS against bin Laden and Somali pirates right after signing the National Defense Authorization Act? I hope this gets as entertaining as it is in my head.

Masso

2012-01-05 09:03:31 AM

Yeah, I bet Obama is scared shiatless by the threat of Labor Union going over to GOP.

Arkanaut

2012-01-05 09:04:52 AM

HotWingConspiracy: Arkanaut: HotWingConspiracy: It's simple, allow it to be built to placate the unions, then don't fund any security for it. Arrange for an accident to happen, then shut the farker down.

That sounds like the worst of both worlds.

I'm just trying to make everyone happy.

Finally, a compromise candidate! HotWingConspiracy in 2012!

sprawl15

2012-01-05 09:09:40 AM

Arkanaut: sprawl15: No, building a pipeline over our largest aquifer in the country to help Canada sell oil to China more easily is not in our national interest.

Wasn't there some alternate plan to build the pipeline around the aquifer? Why not go with that plan?

Because it still would be a shiatty, shiatty idea. The only real jobs it would produce would be about 4-6k for two years, and it's a pipeline to sell Canadian oil to China. We don't benefit from its use at all.

Alphax

2012-01-05 09:11:41 AM

sprawl15: Because it still would be a shiatty, shiatty idea. The only real jobs it would produce would be about 4-6k for two years, and it's a pipeline to sell Canadian oil to China. We don't benefit from its use at all.

That, and a few thousand more people brought it when the line breaks, who will likely get some incurable medical condition when they're told not to use respirators, else they're fired.

Arkanaut

2012-01-05 09:12:31 AM

imontheinternet

2012-01-05 09:13:04 AM

Welcome to the Citizens' United era. Corporate fatcats don't even have to pretend that they're not the ones running the American political circus.

CPennypacker

2012-01-05 09:13:38 AM

Dammit Fartbongo! This pipeline will create 200 million jobs. GET OFF UR SOCIALIST ASS!

Muta

2012-01-05 09:14:29 AM

Arkanaut: Wasn't there some alternate plan to build the pipeline around the aquifer? Why not go with that plan?

This seems like a reasonable.solution. What's the hold up?

CPennypacker

2012-01-05 09:15:56 AM

Muta: Arkanaut: Wasn't there some alternate plan to build the pipeline around the aquifer? Why not go with that plan?

This seems like a reasonable.solution. What's the hold up?

They would rather spend $99,999,999.99 lobbying to get their current plan approved than $100,000,000.00 to extend the pipeline around the aquifer. Its a numbers game.

brukmann

2012-01-05 09:16:33 AM

Lupine Chemist: I'm certainly no Republican, but I don't get how the Dems cry out to build infrastructure all the damned time and then get pissed at a major infrastructure project.

OH NO! They may install a pipeline!

[i.imgur.com image 600x283]

...and isn't keystone 80% complete already? They're just renaming it and extending it the rest of the way to the gulf?

Shaggy_C

2012-01-05 09:16:56 AM

Masso: Yeah, I bet Obama is scared shiatless by the threat of Labor Union going over to GOP.

"Working class white people" is a constituency that has been completely dumped by the Obama 2012 team. If you're not looking for handouts or an elitist college graduate, they don't want you. Now, whether they need your vote or not...well, we'll see in November, won't we???

Magorn

2012-01-05 09:18:53 AM

Alphax: Oil Industry's top lobbyist.. oh yeah, that sounds trustworthy.

At least his name isn't Morden.

"What do you want?"

randomjsa

2012-01-05 09:21:45 AM

So I've been watching fark liberals go on about "jobs" and how every bill the Republicans pass doesn't seem to create them...

And the first bill they are behind that will create jobs, liberals are against it.

Hypocrites much?

Retro42

2012-01-05 09:22:37 AM

It's way too early for popcorn... Can you guys hold off for a few hours?

On Topic: The ONLY people who really profit from this pipeline are the oil companies. It's not going to create any long-term jobs. It's not environmentally safe. It's not a nation security thing(all that oil is going overseas, not here.)

The Repubs/Oil are trying to push it thru before "not environmentally safe" turns into "absolutely horrible, why would you do this anyway" after the studies are done.

sprawl15

2012-01-05 09:23:14 AM

Arkanaut: What, the Canucks aren't going to pay us rent?

Why would they? They're privately building it.

CPennypacker

2012-01-05 09:23:25 AM

HotWingConspiracy

2012-01-05 09:23:50 AM

randomjsa: Hypocrites much?

No.

Lunaville

2012-01-05 09:26:01 AM

sprawl15: Arkanaut: sprawl15: No, building a pipeline over our largest aquifer in the country to help Canada sell oil to China more easily is not in our national interest.

Wasn't there some alternate plan to build the pipeline around the aquifer? Why not go with that plan?

Because it still would be a shiatty, shiatty idea. The only real jobs it would produce would be about 4-6k for two years, and it's a pipeline to sell Canadian oil to China. We don't benefit from its use at all.

Exactly, Canada has coastline. Let them build a pipe through their country to their coast jeopardizing their environment and sell their damn oil to China.

I would consider an alternative, safer route for the pipeline acceptable if the oil was slated for the USA and intended to make us less dependent on oil from the middle east. But this business proposal is insane.

funk_soul_bubby

2012-01-05 09:26:25 AM

Keystone pipeline!

Magorn

2012-01-05 09:26:37 AM

randomjsa: So I've been watching fark liberals go on about "jobs" and how every bill the Republicans pass doesn't seem to create them...

And the first bill they are behind that will create jobs, liberals are against it.

Hypocrites much?

You know, a bill that created death squads to hunt down and kill every American with an "e" in their name WOULD create thousands of Jobs, but despite that, I'd be against it. The Republicans have been using tha club of the massive unemployment caused by the financial crisis (which was caused by their laisse-fair regulation of the financial sector) to try to dismantle even the basic environmental, social, and labor regulations we have left. "Jobs" by themselves are not such a holy goal that I'm willing to stripmine America's social fabric to get them.

Debeo Summa Credo

2012-01-05 09:26:51 AM

Retro42: It's way too early for popcorn... Can you guys hold off for a few hours?

On Topic: The ONLY people who really profit from this pipeline are the oil companies. It's not going to create any long-term jobs. It's not environmentally safe. It's not a nation security thing(all that oil is going overseas, not here.)

The Repubs/Oil are trying to push it thru before "not environmentally safe" turns into "absolutely horrible, why would you do this anyway" after the studies are done.

Why is it not environmentally safe? We have pipelines all over the place. Why is this new one not going to be safe?

The oil companies may be spewing horseshiat, but so are the environmentalists.

Farking While Farking

2012-01-05 09:27:13 AM

I seriously doubt the Unions are going to vote the GOP who are very actively and openly trying to destroy organized labour in the US.

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