Why bring this up now? The dems could better explain the impact of the Bush tax cuts:
Small Business' Perspective on Bush Tax cuts for the wealthy/
And the way they managed the Keystone dialog shows this may be a pattern....
Back in January Obama delayed the Pipeline, ostensibly because his administration hadn't had enough time to review the application the feds had in hand.
But by law he had no authority to take any action. Still doesn't.
HR 3765, the legislation that extended the payroll tax holiday passed in Dec. '10, is explicit:
Sec 501.c.2.
(c) REQUIREMENTS.—The permit granted under subsection (a)
shall require the following:
(2) The permittee shall obtain all requisite permits from
all relevant Canadian, Federal, State, and local
governmental agencies.
As of last January, Nebraska had yet to approve a permit. Environmentalists in NB raised the alarm, not the ones from Hollywood. Believe it or not, The NB permit is still pending.
And Gov. Brian Schweitzer was all over this from the very start:
Schweitzer on Keystone
I don't know how to get this stuff to the guys that can do something about it. So all I can do is vent......