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Keystone to Obama: “The country needs me”

WASHINGTON – It’s been a year since President Obama rejected the Keystone Pipeline, but with 7.8 percent unemployment, both America and Keystone are still looking for closure.

Today, the Keystone Pipeline has a message for the president – “the country needs me.”

“It’s been a year since you rejected me,” Keystone writes in a note to President Obama today, care of the National Republican Congressional Committee. “I know you only did it to impress your crazy environmental activist friends, but you can’t deny the damage that rejecting me has done. Thousands of jobs blocked, domestic energy production dashed, American energy security abandoned. The country needs me. Take me back.”

One Year Ago Today, President Obama Rejected The Plan To Build The Keystone XL Pipeline. “President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected a Canadian company’s plan to build a U.S.-spanning, 1,700-mile pipeline to carry oil across six U.S. states to Texas refineries, raising the stakes on a bitter election year fight with Republicans.” (“Obama Rejects Keystone Oil Pipeline,” NBC News, 1/18/12)

The Current U.S. Unemployment Rate Is 7.8 Percent. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed On 1/18/13)