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Thu Jan 29, 2015, 06:05 PM Jan 2015

Koch Congress Still Pushing Keystone After Four Pipeline Explosions In A Month

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/29/koch-congress-pushing-keystone-pipeline-explosions-month.html

After their 2012 general election defeat, Republicans performed a self-autopsy and concluded that they had to convince the American people that they cared more about the “regular people” and not solely their special interest donors. Obviously they ignored their own diagnosis and have committed to serving the interests of their owners the Koch brothers. This week, despite a looming veto threat from President Obama, after House Republicans passed a bill subverting the President’s purview over a foreign nation’s pipeline and the Senate is following suit sometime this week. Of all the reasons to not build the Keystone pipeline, one that is often overlooked, and ignored by the corporate media, is the real and present danger of a break in TransCanada’s rupture-prone pipeline the company claims is safe and environmentally friendly.

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I absolutely love that headline. Koch Congress = Do Nothing Congress Part Deux.
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