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#104601: Nov 6th 2015 at 8:42:37 AM

Double Post: Remember the other day when TransCanada asked the State Department to suspend their application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, presumably with the idea that they could resubmit if a Republican won the presidency in 2016? Well, that seems not to have worked, or have been a desperate, last-ditch effort to avoid a total defeat.

Yesterday, the White House signaled that it would reject the company's request to put the application on hold, citing seven years of work on the project that should not be thrown out. Today, John Kerry has recommended that the U.S. reject Keystone, spelling almost certain doom for it. Barack Obama will speak on the topic at 11:45 AM ET and is widely expected to confirm the rejection.

All the environmental activists who had been waiting with bated breath since TransCanada's unexpected announcement may finally be able to celebrate victory.


In other news, Ben Carson's campaign admits that his story about his application and acceptance to West Point was made up. Carson's book, Gifted Hands, contains a heartwarming tale of being introduced to Gen. William Westmoreland in 1969, followed by receiving a full scholarship to the military academy. West Point, however, has maintained that it has no record of Carson applying or being admitted.

I wonder if this lie will finally start to knock his campaign off its pedestal.

edited 6th Nov '15 8:51:06 AM by Fighteer

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#104602: Nov 6th 2015 at 8:42:38 AM

Fighteer felt his dominance as the person In The Know was being challenged, and forced his way on stage. He's the Donald Trump of this thread!

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(Wait, is that meme still a thing?)

edited 6th Nov '15 8:42:52 AM by TheyCallMeTomu

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#104603: Nov 6th 2015 at 8:46:00 AM

[up] Would you like it to be a thing? 'Cuz I'm itching to issue an off-topic thump.

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#104604: Nov 6th 2015 at 8:48:43 AM

Fighteer promises there will be hell toupee if you try to trump him.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
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#104605: Nov 6th 2015 at 8:49:52 AM

Ha

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#104606: Nov 6th 2015 at 8:56:41 AM

In a logical world, that would push Pataki and Graham out, but even Gilmore hasn't dropped and he's been denied altogether from all but the first kids' table debate.

Compare the Democratic field where Webb and Chafee were out within a week of the first debate.

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#104607: Nov 6th 2015 at 9:01:25 AM

Obama's on TV right now and has confirmed the rejection of Keystone. He says that it's been a huge distraction for both sides, and simply won't do enough to create jobs or boost the U.S. economy compared to other things that we could be working on. It wouldn't lower gas prices or help with our infrastructure deficiencies, nor would it increase energy security.

Obama is using this announcement as an opportunity to discuss energy policy, citing America's overachievement of its goals on reducing oil imports as well as huge reductions in costs for clean energy, increases in fuel efficiency, and reduction in overall carbon emissions.

edited 6th Nov '15 9:04:50 AM by Fighteer

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#104608: Nov 6th 2015 at 11:23:25 AM

Well, that shelves that, for at least two years. I think Transcanada could apply again if there's a Republican win for president. It was probably wise to point out all the gains we've made and that it far outstretches anything that it was claimed Keystone could do.

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#104609: Nov 6th 2015 at 11:27:12 AM

Vox is noting that with the West Point anecdote exposed as a lie, other details from Carson's narrative as a violent teen turned neurosurgeon are looking sketchy.

Basically, CNN wasn't able to verify other stuff from Carson's past, including a school stabbing his classmates said they would of been able to know since it should of been a major school incident, but there's no proof it happened. Carson's standing by his possibly fabricated past as it's the entire basis of his book series that paints him to Conservatives and Blacks as the "Violent Black youth who took responsibility and bootstrapped himself out of poverty.".

Dude gonna get Cain'd.

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#104610: Nov 6th 2015 at 11:30:47 AM

[up] It's always been only a matter of time until he got Cain'd, but it's always surprising when it finally happens. Of course, he might survive it, depending on how crazy his supporters are.

edited 6th Nov '15 11:31:13 AM by Fighteer

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#104611: Nov 6th 2015 at 12:17:22 PM

They may not be so much crazy as desperate. The ones I've listened to at work spoke of a need for leadership in the party and that "we're going to have to go with Carson." It wasn't said with passion.

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#104612: Nov 6th 2015 at 12:21:22 PM

The basic problem is all the Republicans have Goliath sized skeletons while playing themselves up as paragons. As mentioned before, the party has reached rather high levels of affinity fraud and huckster-ing.

But yeah, I would not be surprised if he implodes over the next month.

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#104613: Nov 6th 2015 at 12:29:19 PM

They guy, a medical professional, mind, accepted payments from a sugar pill company called Mannatech and claimed they cured his cancer, was paid to appear in ads for the product.

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#104614: Nov 6th 2015 at 12:30:57 PM

[up][up]

The basic problem is all the Republicans have Goliath sized skeletons while playing themselves up as paragons. As mentioned before, the party has reached rather high levels of affinity fraud and huckster-ing.

And probably quite a few Republicans know it as well — maybe a chance for the Democrats?

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#104615: Nov 6th 2015 at 12:32:18 PM

Given the situation, it seems the better comparison would be the Brian Williams meme.

And in other news, a number of liberal news outlets are suspicious as hell of the fact that Matt Bevin won the Kentucky Governorship.

This is primarily because of three things - A) he was behind by 3 points in the last preceding polls, B) he won by 9 points when they were tallied up, and C) the other Democrats on the ballot did much better than the candidate for Governor.

edited 6th Nov '15 12:33:15 PM by ironballs16

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#104616: Nov 6th 2015 at 12:52:29 PM

Trump be all like "Get outta here, only room for one crazy ass bastard in this race!" while wiping toupee sweat off his brow.

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#104617: Nov 6th 2015 at 12:54:42 PM

[up][up] Hmm, if they prove some kind of shenanigans about the Kentucky race, that could be one hell of a scandal to take into 2016.

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#104618: Nov 6th 2015 at 1:04:17 PM

And probably quite a few Republicans know it as well — maybe a chance for the Democrats?
Clinton's scandals is the E-Mail, Bengzhai, and the fact her husband got a blowjob from an intern. And Whitewater, but Whitewater's been ruined as credible scandal. And the Republicans basically fucked up the E-Mail and Bengzhai scandals (which really weren't that scandalous...). Basically she's got armor against her scandals already, since her's are basically:

  • She did something every other Secretary of State has done because of the State Department's shit ass budget.
  • She made a false declaration on Bengzhai that the rest of the administration did due to a confusion in two simultaneous events.
  • Her husband got a blow job from a 20 something woman.
  • Vague ominous real estate conspiracy that's been dragged around to death.

O'Malley seems to have been torpedoed by Baltimore already.

And if Sanders has scandals, they're not showing up. (Yet)

edited 6th Nov '15 1:06:18 PM by PotatoesRock

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#104619: Nov 6th 2015 at 1:04:52 PM

You know, the more I think about it, the more the Republicans seem like one big Hive Of Scum And Villainy, or at least a secret evil organization that's not so secret. (At all.) I realize of course that things are likely more complicated than the news makes them out to be, but I've yet to see a running republican who truly seems to have the best interests of the wider American populace at heart, as opposed to the various racists, crazies, and 1% that they seem to cater to.

edited 6th Nov '15 1:05:19 PM by kkhohoho

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#104620: Nov 6th 2015 at 1:13:15 PM

[up][up] Either way, what I was thinking that the current Republican race might lead to some disaffected Republicans voting for the Democrats. Not many, perhaps, but a few.

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#104621: Nov 6th 2015 at 1:53:30 PM

The thing with Kentucky could be that the state Democrats and the national Democrats are almost two different entities to them (symptoms of the Southern Strategy still not swinging to utter completion). GOP ads in the state managed to link Conway with Obama and the ever-fallacious "War on Coal," so it could be that conservative registered Dems voted for fellow party members downticket but nuked Conway because of the campaign's successful ability to link him to Obama.

Which puts into better perspective why the woman who ran against Mitch McConnell was so cagey about whether she had voted for him or not.

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#104622: Nov 6th 2015 at 1:54:13 PM

Baltimore aside, it's not clear that O'Malley ever enjoyed the kind of national recognition he needed to be competitive in the race.

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#104623: Nov 6th 2015 at 1:56:54 PM

In another race, O'Malley would have been totally competitive, realistically. He's got pretty good charisma, and was able to hold his own about the Freddie Gray stuff in the debate. He's just up against the behemoth and doesn't have the ideological pull that Sanders does to differentiate himself.

ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#104624: Nov 6th 2015 at 2:28:50 PM

O'Malley looks like the generic stuffed shirt politician in every TV show ever, except he's a Democrat.

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#104625: Nov 6th 2015 at 2:33:55 PM

O'Malley is to some degree (accounts vary) the inspiration for this guy.

So yeah.


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