President Obama is focusing his attention on creating jobs … except when he’s not. Jonah Goldberg tackles that topic in a new National Review Online column, in the context of addressing the Obama administration’s decision to block the Keystone pipeline.
Obama himself has insisted time and again he cares only about “what works” and not about ideological or partisan point scoring. Nary an utterance from the president doesn’t include some claim that his “top,” “chief,” “first,” and “number one” priority is to create jobs and get America working again.
Just last week he announced that he wants to streamline government to cut red tape and make both government and the economy more efficient.
It’s all a farrago of lies.
Now, maybe they believe all of this stuff, but that doesn’t disprove they’re lying; it just proves they’re lying to themselves, too.
Obama’s decision to block the building of the Keystone pipeline on the grounds that the Congress — in a bipartisan vote — didn’t give the bureaucrats enough time to study the issue is akin to [Manhattan Project overseer] Leslie Groves accepting that he couldn’t have his silver because he failed to ask for it in troy ounces.
The State Department simply didn’t have the time, Obama the alleged red-tape cutter lamented, to check every box on its mountains of triplicated forms. The eight-volume environmental-impact statement cogitates on the possible spreading of “137 federally restricted and regulated noxious weeds,” as well as an unspecified number of “state and local noxious weeds.” By all means, let’s hold up a massive infrastructure project that will cost taxpayers nothing and create bountiful jobs and tax revenues so we can check — again! — that local noxious weeds don’t gain the upper hand (upper leaf?).
