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keystone pipeline. the obama administration expected to issue its decision on whether to allow an extension to carry crude oil from canada to the gulf coast sometime in the next few months. it s become a political controversy. just this week president obama was greeted outside a california fundraiser by protesters pushing the president to reject the pipeline extension. texas oil tycoon t. boone pickens knows what it is like to pick an energy fight in washington though he doesn t have much of a winning record. i spoke to him earlier this week about his frustrations in pitching what he calls the pick ens plan. welcome. thanks for being here. sure. glad to be here. before we talk about energy you said recently washington has the largest group of incompetent people in one place in the world. do you mind elaborating? one thing would be we haven t had a budget in five years. i can t imagine operating government without a budget. okay. that s one reason. and another is, you know, i ve b
i think when they look at the energy situation given our need to get off foreign independence and the global warming issue, the white house feels it has better arguments than the republicans do on it and they are looking to engage them in a fight. you re looking for a democrat in the white house, in particular, to find out which issues they want to come to the center and work with the independents and the moderates on and which issues they want to fight with the republicans on. lay down a clear position and the white house thinks they can win the argument on this. no doubt. i think it s time to have an energy debate in this country. they are predicting $5 gas, gasoline. this is, this country has not had a serious debate on energy reform. you re absolutely right. republicans welcome this fight, two reasons. they want to open up an war. they believe that there are millions, tens of millions of barrels of oil there. they welcome that fight. secondly, the president has to be very caref
for the republicans on the committee and wasn t speaking for me. all right. tennessee congresswoman marcia blackburn. thank you for your time this afternoon. well it s deja vu all over again in the senate. there s a push for an energy bill shaping up to be a mirror image of the health care fight to replace the public option with cap and trade. joining us now is ken strickland. explain this theory you have that there are a lot of similarities, perhaps between the health careç fight that wa and the energy fight that is to come. here are the similarities. we re talking about a massive piece of legislation that will have an impact on almost every single american. but unlike the health care bill where democrats and the white house said they would take a year, even a year and a half to work on it and pass this all inclusive comprehensive legislation, harry reid and the white house are saying we want to get this done this year. the problem? this is an election year.
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