Originally Posted by Guest

The veto, as with just about 100% of what happens in the WH, has nothing to do with anything but politics. Pure and simple.

The NY Times, amazingly, published a nice article on Keyston and Alberta and how it became a political football and I suggest all read it. It will show how the politics of this overshadow anything else and the President's ego also.

"“The political fight about Keystone is vastly greater than the economic, environmental or energy impact of the pipeline itself,” said Robert N. Stavins, director of the environmental economics program at Harvard. “It doesn’t make a big difference in energy prices, employment, or climate change either way.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/us...bill.html?_r=0