White House threatens to veto Keystone bill

[mystery-ak]

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/228610-white-house-threatens-to-veto-keystone-bill

By Laura Barron-Lopez - 01/06/15 01:21 PM EST
The White House said on Tuesday that President Obama would veto legislation that approves construction of the Keystone XL pipeline if it passes Congress.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has promised to make a bill that green lights the $8 billion oil sands project the first item to hit Obama's desk this year.


White House press secretary Josh Earnest, though, said the president will not stray from the ongoing process.

"If this bill passes this Congress the president won't sign it either," Earnest said on Tuesday of the pending Keystone legislation.

The bill is all but guaranteed to pass the Senate, with 60 co-sponsors as of Tuesday morning.

[Oceander]

Good.  The first in (hopefully) a long line of examples in which the GOP takes on the role of the responsible adult and Obama plays the role of the childish, ideological obstructionist.

[Lando Lincoln]

New Congress is minutes old and Obama threatens a veto. 

[Oceander]

New Congress is minutes old and Obama threatens a veto. 

Of course.  He's trying to goad the new Congress into acting just as juvenile as he; this is of a piece with his threats against the Supreme Court in that infamous State of the Union speech of his.

[GourmetDan]

 
Bambi waited till Boehner 'won' and is now strengthened by that outcome...