WaPo: Four Pinnocchios for Obama on Keystone Spin

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http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/03/02/wapo-four-pinnocchios-for-obama-on-keystone-n1964472

President Obama has taken the dramatic, out-of-the-mainstream step of vetoing Congress' overwhelming and bipartisan approval of the Keystone Pipeline. All told, 332 members of Congress voted to green light the job-creating infrastructure project, including dozens of Democrats. Keystone has the strong backing of our Canadian allies, would help North American energy production, has passed environmental and legal muster over years of study, and would cost taxpayers nothing. Approving the pipeline merely involves getting government out of the way, and letting the private sector take things from there. It's a political and policy no-brainer, which is why it consistently attracts lopsided support from the American people in public polling. But the president has an extreme agenda to protect, and self-interested"green" billionaire donors and special interests to reward. So he wielded his veto pen, laughably citing separation of powers concerns as a pretext to nix the plan.

In an effort to justify his extreme veto, Obama is relying on dishonest arguments, eliciting a 'Four Pinocchios' ruling from the Washington Post's fact-checker:

President Obama, seeking to explain his veto of a bill that would have leapfrogged the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline, in an interview with a North Dakota station repeated some false claims that had previously earned him Pinocchios.

Yet he managed to make his statement even more misleading than before, suggesting the pipeline would have no benefit for American producers at all

...The president’s latest remarks pushes this assertion into the Four Pinocchios column. If he disagrees with the State Department’s findings,

he should begin to make the case why it is wrong, rather than assert the opposite, without any factual basis

. Moreover, by telling North Dakota listeners that the pipeline has no benefit for Americans, he is again being misleading, given that producers in the region have signed contracts to transport some of their production through the pipeline.

[AURaptor 1,121]

lied about the ACA too.

So what ?

[Proud Tiger 4,261]

Lied about lots of things I have a long list.

[autigeremt 6,560]

It's a prerequisite for nomination these days.