Tim Huelskamp (Dumbass - Brownbackistan) - Keystone Worth It Even If It Creates Only One Job

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Republicans frequently frame their support for the Keystone XL pipeline as a jobs-creation initiative. “The nearly six-year delay in approving Keystone is costing Americans more than 100,000 jobs,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) erroneously wrote in an op-ed last year.

One GOPer, though, is so gung-ho about Keystone XL that he’s willing to back the idea even if it only creates a single job.

During a town hall meeting last month in Clay Center, Kansas, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) addressed the subject of the proposed 1,179-mile tar sands pipeline. “People argue about how many jobs it would create,” the third-term congressman said. “One’s enough for me!”

Huelskamp went on to argue, in the plural, that “We need more American jobs and good hard construction jobs.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/19/3636249/huelskamp-one-job-keystone/

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Liar and hypocrite.

Where are the Republicans demanding that we build solar and wind farms to create jobs? Bloody nowhere. It's not about he jobs for them, it's never been about the jobs, it will never be about the jobs. Otherwise they'd be pushing job creating projects across the ideological spectrum, not just for fossil fuel use.

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2. Y'see, it's those manly, butch pipeline jobs (good) vs. limp-wristed Volvo-driving solar jobs (bad)

It's the same old endless cry for more business as usual, no matter what, but with faux-tribal bullshit as the "motivator".