Romney: I’ll build Keystone pipeline even ‘if I have to do it myself’

[bluesbassman]

Source: Yahoo News

Mitt Romney vowed Friday that, if elected president, he would build the controversial Keystone Pipeline linking oil deposits in Canada to refineries on the Texas gulf coast.

"I will build that pipeline if I have to do it myself," Romney said during a speech before state Republican Party leaders gathered at a retreat in Arizona.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-ll-build-keystone-pipeline-even-myself-205917498.html

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Of course if you did, we wouldn't have to pay you any kind of a premium to use it would we Mitt?

[Drale]

1. Honestly I would love to see that

I say we pass the damn thing with the stipulation that Mitt Romney has to build the entire thing with his own two hands.

[SharonAnn]

19. That confirms that it benefits corporations and the wealthy, not the rest of us.

He only supports things that support him and his compatriots.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Of course. After firing everyone else, who would be left?

That was easy.

[SemperEadem]

3. I'm sure the states would have something to say about that

states rights and all... eh mittless?

[Webster Green]

4. He wouldn't make it to the morning break on a job like that.

I doubt he has any skills whatsoever.

[rurallib]

12. there would have to be another guy to make sure

Mitty puts the right end of the shovel in the ground.

[Botany]

18. Romney: I’ll build Keystone pipeline even ‘if I have to do it myself’

I would pay to watch Mitt welding pipe together ......

[Bozita]

22. Hello Mitt. This is a shovel. It's used for digging. Get to know it. ... Now, get going!

Give him some time and he'll be telling us he invented the Keystone Pipeline.

[beac]

48. Mitt may not know what a shovel is but he certainly can shovel some shyte, can't he? n/t

[Auggie]

5. Well, Mitt does dig a deeper hole every time he opens his mouth

[XemaSab]

24. .

[Rosa Luxemburg]

51. He may even surpass Michael Steele!

[truthisfreedom]

6. Like the Obama administration DOESN'T want to build it?

Mittens, you're so fucking clueless. Obama would love to build that pipeline. They just don't want to build it wrong, you worthless goof. Obama's already approved the lower section of it, idiot.

[TiberiusB]

36. Building it at all would be the wrong way...

In typical fashion, the GOP is able to twist what should be a discussion about the catastrophic environmental impact of the Tar Sands and Keystone Pipeline into a battle over jobs and gas prices. Now we see Democrats (big "D" and small), scrambling to adopt the Right's position. I guarantee Obama will do the same. Why wouldn't he? He refuses to take on the ignorance of the American public on Global Warming, so he leaves himself with few options when the woefully uninformed masses swallow the GOP lies and gleefully tighten the noose around their own neck. This has been the dynamic from day one and this "debate" about Keystone will be no different.

[RowdyRacer]

7. I'd bet everything I own...

that Mitt couldn't put a tricycle together...

[goclark]

47. Bingo!

[Fearless]

8. Go for it... It's trespassing. You'll go to jail. Like I said... go for it.

Bring Ted Nugent with you.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Mitt's a liar.

Him do manual labor? Not likely.

[sarcasmo]

10. Doesn't he mean, hire Chinese workers at a buck an hour to build the pipeline.

[underpants]

11. So manly of a man who did nothing but push paper and make country clud deals

spare us Mitt- everyone knows that the Super Pacs ($100 M as of today) are going to do all your work.

[PatrynXX]

13. go ahead mitt. instead of 50 building it. it'll be 49 less

and none of it going to the USA because of the massive amount of expense to refine the thing.

[newspeak]

33. oh no, haven't you heard, the repugs say the pipeline will create thousands of jobs?

And the truly clueless think that we're actually going to be keeping that oil, instead of it being shipped onto the global market. I wonder how many livelihoods the BP oil disaster killed? And the first oil disaster for this boondoggle, I wonder how many it will harm?

The repugs think their constituency is so stupid, that you actually have people thinking if we drill more here, we're going to have more for ourselves; instead of government just gives lucrative leases to oil corporations and "our" oil is put on the global market. Now, if they talked about nationalizing the oil, that would be different. But that's soshulism, and we can't have that. And, we've gone to war for the oil cretins, to keep other countries from nationalizing their oil.

[MADem]

14. He's got time to build a fucking pipeline, but he doesn't have time to file his taxes?

This sorry bastard doesn't even have a job right now, you'd think he could carve out a moment in his day to bark orders to his accountants to get his taxes done on time!

[goclark]

21. Sock it to him MADem!

Hello Mitty ~ let's get those taxs finished!

He pretends he is Superman - talking all big and bad.

He is a wimp.

Usually I try to find at least one good quality in everybody.

So far, no luck with Mitty.

[MADem]

37. And his wife is such a business whiz--why couldn't SHE help and get those taxes done on TIME, like

the rest of us are expected to do!

Neither one of them is pulling down a regular paycheck--surely they can take a little time off the campaign trail and do what people working two or three jobs are expected to do, on time, every year?

[Bolo Boffin]

15. The Ballad of Mitt Romney (to the tune of The Ballad of John Henry)

Last edited Sat Apr 21, 2012, 07:17 AM - Edit history (1)

When Mitt Romney was a little baby,
Just a sittn' on his daddy's knee,
Said, "The Keystone XL on that oil shale flow
Gonna be the death of me, Lord God
Going to be the death of me."

Well Mitt Romney said to the Captain,
I'm gonna take a little trip downtown
Get me a thirty pound hammer with that nine foot handle
I'll beat your communism down, Lord God
I'll beat your communism down.

Well Mitt Romney hammered on that pipeline
Till his hammer was striking fire
And the very last words that I heard that fella say was
No 7-Eleven cookie 'for I die, Lord God
No 7-Eleven cookie 'for I die.

Well they carried him down to the graveyard
And they buried him in the sand
And every gallon of shale a bubblin' on by
It cried out, "There lies a steel drivin' man, Lord God
There lies a steel drivin' man."

Well there's some say he came from Mexico
There's some say Michigan
Well I don't give a damn where that poor fella was from
You know that, he was a steel drivin' man, Lord God
Mitt Romney was a steel drivin' man.

Well when Mitt Romney was a little baby,
Just a sittn' on his daddy's knee,
Said, "The Keystone XL on that oil shale flow
Gonna be the death of me, Lord God
Going to be the death of me."

[XemaSab]

25. This thread is full of win

and that post wins the win.

[chelsea0011]

28. A+

[grantcart]

39. brilliant

[Bozita]

41. Really good stuff! ... Wish I could rec a reply

[Earth_First]

16. He's probably practicing his shirt sleeve rolling as we speak... n/t

[panzerfaust]

30. Yep. Though Doubt that he will get it down this Good

Wonder whose clothes he borrowed

Why did Bush sell his "beloved" ranch so quick after leaving office. Heck, why did he not even own a ranch before running for president.

You don't think that ...

[newspeak]

34. well, he bought the ranch months before the election

Not a word from the media that the "fake" cowboy" was afeared of horses and he bought the ranch before the election. All bread and circuses. I have to say that with the help of a very complicit media, they MADE little boots. And, the clueless ate it up.

[MADem]

38. He sold the pig farm? Ha! After the Secret Service made all those improvements?

Laura hated that dump! She's a city gal!

[SunSeeker]

17. Sorry, Willard. This ain't like hosing Seamus off. You'll need permits.

[kiranon]

20. There goes the aquifer. n/t

[newspeak]

35. yeah, well just like the fracking

as long as the corporations get what they want, they don't care which city or town they contaminate. If they contaminate your fresh water supply, they'll just get to make more money selling you water. If they contaminate your air, they can make more on selling you clean air. Why does the LORAX come to mind?

[Zoeisright]

23. Yeah right. I doubt that prick could even pick up a shovel.

Let's see you get your lily-white hands dirty, WILLARD. I'd pay to see that.

[AlbertCat]

26. Ann can help!

And get out of the house and work for a change. Get her a hard hat!



Blah Blah Blah.... Whatever...Romney noodle.

[spiderpig]

27. Oh, will somebody just tell this idiot to shut up?

On second thought, the more he blathers on, the better for our side.

What a jackass*

*No offense to animals of the donkey/mule families intended.

[IndyJones]

29. Aren't all of their kids grown? What's Ann doing now that the hard working SAHM has an empty nest?

Maybe she can step up and well, you know, have her nannies do the work along side Mitt.

[jimlup]

31. By saying "build it myself" he means....

Form a company that hires people whom he can later fire. The guy is a total tool. I'm surprised that as many of my fellow citizens are fooled (obviously none here.)

[sofa king]

32. The only time Romney has turned over dirt...

...is when he backs his SUV into his flower bed.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

52. LOL!

[goclark]

40. Come on MItt make our day

and start working on it.

[hatrack]

42. Like he'd even fucking know which end of a wrench to pick up!

[Marrah_G]

43. By "doing it himself" he means the hiring of laborers to do the work for him

[Tax Man]

44. and they say he has no sense of humor

[agentS]

45. Mitt can't even change the drain pipes in his own bathroom sink!

How the hell is he going to build an international oil pipeline by himself?

[truebrit71]

46. So he's saying he'd finally get his hands dirty doing some ACTUAL work?

Rather than making money from the work and toil of others?

Yeah, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you...

[jmowreader]

49. As long as he cleans up the oil spills himself, fine

Uhh...Mitt? Tar sands oil, which is what we're talking about, is a mixture of sand and asphalt. Ya put gravel in it and it's perfect for paving roads. If you can explain how piping that shit three thousand miles makes any sense at all, in ordinary words, I'll listen.

[fujiyama]

50. LOL

I'd like to see Mitt Romney get his hands dirty.

I doubt the guy has picked up a tool of any sort ever in his life. He's so out of touch, he's in a different galaxy.

[Mendocino]

53. "I like pipelines

they're all the right length."

[wordpix]

54. Tax Haven Mitt has the gall to say about O: " "I just don't think we can afford him any longer."

This is the Richie Rich who's paying a whopping 14% in tax on his millions, without working.

[Blandocyte]

55. Jump on in there, Richie Rich

I'm sure someone will help you learn to use the power tools.

[and-justice-for-all]

56. Rmoney, you would have to get the permits first...

and I do not think anyone wants a potential envromental disaster in their backyard. Plus, all that work for $0.05 cheaper fuel is not worth it.

[randome]

57. Romney is the Chuck Norris of the GOP.

He can make a snowman out of rain -just like Chuck.

[Enrique]

58. Mitt knows how to do things

[Auntie Bush]

59. It would take Mitt a month to dig a hole as big as HIS.

[Thor_MN]

60. I'd like to see them try without using eminent domain.

They love the free market so much, why don't they try using it? The true price of the land rights is what the market will bear, not what a government assessor decides is a fair price.

[okieinpain]

61. funny thing is pipeline is only

viable if gas prices are high. if gas prices are low the capitalist are not going to make any money, weird how no one brings this up.

[TBF]

62. Mittens in proximity to sharp tools would be hilarious.

I bet he has never picked up a shovel in his life.