George W. Bush: Building The Keystone XL Pipeline Is A ‘No-Brainer’

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

This is almost too easy. G DUHbya should know all about not having a brain.

While the news was that George W. Bush was the keynote speaker at a conference put on by a group that wants to convert Jews to Christianity received more national and international attention, the 43rd president made made another prominent stop at a conference last week. Among the topics he covered was the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, though Mr. Bush could not see why the pipeline was ever even a question.

On Thursday, he sat down to speak to more than 2,500 oil and gas industry leaders at the DUG East conference in Pittsburgh, PA. The conference focuses on unconventional oil and gas extraction.

Bush’s comments, courtesy of DeSmogBlog, explained his reasoning for why the Obama administration should approve the Keystone XL pipeline:


“I do think we’re underperforming economically. And I think the reason why is there’s not enough focus on private-sector growth. I think the goal of the country ought to be ‘how do we grow the private sector? That ought to be the laser-focus of any administration. And therefore, once that’s the goal, an issue like Keystone pipeline becomes a no-brainer. If private-sector growth is the goal, and Keystone pipeline creates 20,000 new jobs, build the damn thing.”

The comment elicited a burst of applause from the 2,500 attendees of the luncheon.

What is a no-brainer is the likelihood that the Keystone XL pipeline would be close to finished by now if the 43rd president had been elected to a third or fourth term.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/18/2957191/bush-keystone-brainer/

[EOTE]

1. This coming from a man who truly knows his 'no-brainers'. nt

[newfie11]

10. +1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Well, he should know.

"No-brainer" is the best description of his administration I can think of.

[cali]

3. Hillary also supports it. n/t

[jehop61]

4. Where do you get this information?

In 2012, Her State Department denied a permit to Keystone.

[cali]

5. here:

This is what Clinton said about the Keystone XL pipeline in response to a question at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco event:

"So as I say, we've not yet signed off on it. But we are inclined to do so and we are for several reasons — going back to one of your original questions — we're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada. And until we can get our act together as a country and figure out that clean, renewable energy is in both our economic interests and the interests of our planet, I mean, I don't think it will come as a surprise to anyone how deeply disappointed the President and I are about our inability to get the kind of legislation through the Senate that the United States was seeking."

http://uspolitics.about.com/od/CampaignsElections/a/Hillary-Clinton-On-The-Keystone-Xl-Pipeline.htm

[mattvermont]

7. In all fairness, Cali

That statement was made in 2010. She is no longer in a position to make or influence the decision, as she was as SOS.
That is not to say I am confident in a no build outcome.

[Major Hogwash]

6. "That ought to be the laser-focus of any administration." This, from the man who held secret . .

. . meetings with oil and natural gas executives from most energy corporations in the White House, including the executives from Enron, to discuss how they were going to manipulate the energy prices in this country.
When asked to tell the American people who attended those meetings, Bush said, "It's none of your business."

This, from the man who said, "There are WMDs in Iraq."

This, from the man who lost over 14 million American jobs during his 2 terms in office.
We were losing between 750,000 to 800,000 jobs a month as he walked out of the White House.
While the Republicans were busy in Congress cutting unemployment benefits.

I could go on and on, but you get the idea.

The XL pipeline will only create 2000 jobs, the rest are temporary jobs that would result in layoffs as soon as the pipeline is laid.

But then, you guys probably already knew that.

[uponit7771]

8. ...and on this alone Obama should reconsider ANY building of this pipeline. If it screws up to any..

...degree he will have to answer

[freshwest]

9. Well, he must have his microchip reprogrammed by the Koch brothers. Since he preferred wars for oil.

And he no longer seeks to protect private property rights which he made a fuss over in Texas.

Amazing IT can do, after all, they kept Darth running all those years.

[BlueToTheBone]

11. He is wrong at all times. He doesn't even

warrant the stopped clock analogy. May he rot in jail and pay for his treason.