Obama Votes "Present" on Keystone XL Pipeline

The next time Obama says he is "laser-focused" on jobs, remember that he is refusing to allow the Keystone XL pipeline project to go forward due to pressure from his environmental wacko friends. As the WSJ notes:

President Obama used to be fond of "shovel-ready projects." He's also demanding that Congress pass his jobs bill immediately because 9% unemployment is a crisis, and, by the way, he's for making the U.S. less reliant on energy from tyrants. So how about putting 20,000 Americans to work on a North American energy project that's as shovel-ready as they come? Sorry, Mr. Obama is voting present.

The $7 billion project is TransCanada's Keystone XL, a 1,700-mile underground pipeline that would deliver 830,000 barrels of heavy crude oil a day from Alberta to refineries in Oklahoma and Texas. TransCanada filed an application to build the pipeline in September 2008 with the State Department, which must approve it because the pipeline would cross the 49th parallel. In April 2010 and again this August, State produced multivolume environmental impact statements that concluded the pipeline would have "no significant impacts" on the environment.

If people haven't noticed already, Obama doesn't give a damn about jobs. He cares about one thing - his re-election. He must assume he needs to rev up his wacko base to have a chance at winning.