Have to wonder who in Nebraska is complaining... The pipeline is crossing ecologically sensitive land, and major aquifers in 3 states before it gets to Nebraska; why is Nebraska so special?
All I know is, I'm gettin real fed up with political positioning at the expense of working class Americans. The Republicans no doubt tried to shove this bill through with a 60 day approval, KNOWING there is a feud over this pipeline crossing the sand hills of Nebraska. If Obama caved in and passed the bill, he's got his nads in a ringer with the environmental types, many of whom have very deep pockets, and he can't afford to make them grumpy during an election year. If he shuts the project down, then he makes a whole lot of working class folks angry.
Obama ain't necessarily worried about the working class folks, [beeep] he's got 12 million illegal aliens with fake IDs to cover for the votes he'll lose there, he needs the environmentalist groupies campaign donations. So he shoots the project down putting a 2013 timeline on it, affording the working class some hope for the future of the project, getting his donations from his ecological groupies, setting further feuds over it off until after the election is over, so the Republicans can't hang him with it again, all the while blaming it failing on the Republicans' timeline demands.
What I don't understand is, why didn't he just go ahead and conditionally approve it attaching one of his little notes on the bottom about how his administration interpretted said approval to be affective in 2013 after they figured out how to go around Nebraska. That way he could have got the campaign funds, wouldn't have made the Nebraskans grumpy, working class might have been more understanding too... the only [beeep] ing fail in that situation is, he couldn't have tried to blame it not passing on the Republicans.