it s also putting more pressure on democrats who haven t weighed in yet. democrats like mark udall. the mcconnell campaign seized on this and really tried to pressure and take grimes to task for not having weighed in yet on whether or not she supports the keystone xl pipeline. here s what house speaker john boehner had to say. quote, this delay is shameful with tens of thousands of american jobs on the line and our allies in eastern europe looking for energy leadership from america. it s clear there is little this administration isn t willing to sacrifice for politics. so republicans really accusing the obama administration of just playing a game of politics here. democrats not surprisingly pushing back on that. this was what barbara boxer had to say of california. she says, quote, given the unprecedented number of comments from the public on the keystone xl pipeline proposal and the legal uncertainties due to
before the nebraska supreme court which would actually impact the route of the pipeline in that state. now legal experts say that means that this decision could be put off for a year after of course the mid term elections. as you know, this is an incredibly divisive issue so reaction was swift. it was strong. others are using it as a decision to criticize. 350.org said quote, it s disturbing he doesn t have the courage to dismiss it. his reaction, quote, this delay is shameful with tens of thousands of american jobs on the line and our allies in eastern europe looking for energy leadership from america. it s clear there s little this administration isn t willing to sacrifice for politics. democratic senator barbara boxer
a diversified source of energy. which means getting less oil and gas and getting more solar and renewable energy. that s the solution, not more scare tactics and misleading facts from transcanada. we re joined by jane kleeb, in bold, nebraska, on the heels of this. and i want to point out that speaker boehner and your congressman, lee terry, used the word shameful their criticism of this delay. boehner said with tens of thousands of american jobs on the line, it s clear there is little this administration is willing to sacrifice for politics. your response to that, jane? the only thing that is shameful is representative terry continues to do the bidding of big oil. rather than standing with republican farmers and ranchers in his state. when it comes time to protecting property rights, where is the republican party? if this was a green energy pipeline, could you imagine, if this was a windmill company
tens of thousands of american veterans who are harmed and whose lives have been ruined or they have been killed. then we end up with a veterans administration that can t handle all of this. on top of that, as he s launching these two wars, iraq and afghanistan, he s administering a huge tax cut at a time when the spending is about to go up, he gives a tax cut to the upper income, to corporations, and then all of this comes home to roost in our economy. we get a big deficit. our country is now still struggling from all of that. so my belief is that regardless of any category you might consider, i think the judges have to give the oscar for worst president to george w. bush. yeah, i mean, you make a very strong case. i think one of the things that s key to point out about w., unlike lyndon johnson, a divided split record in terms of what he did interfacially, the vietnam war, what he did domestically which is push through and sign some of the most significant landmark legislation in am
president ever? actually whoever becomes president, chris, thinking they re going to end up behind millard fillmore. i come into this with a perspective of former long haired hippy vietnam era war protester. and i think what matters the most to our country is when a president comes in and executes geopolitics that have this sort of global impact but also ruin things for all of us at home, and i think what happened under george w. bush is that they cooked intelligence, they created a case for a war to invade iraq, to get even for his dad. and as the former secretary of defense, donald rumsfeld said, we had no choice. the country floated on a sea of oil. the idea was to get oil. to avenge his dad. and hopefully end sectarian violence. and we look at this years later and we have hundreds of thousands of iraqis, some human rights groups put it at a million-plus that are dead. tens of thousands of american veterans who are harmed and