WaPo To Obama: Permit The Pipeline

The calls on President Obama to finally build the Keystone Pipeline are getting louder this morning.

The folks over at The Washington Post editorial page called on President Obama to permit the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and called him out for kowtowing to his liberal environmentalist friends.

“Mr. Obama should ignore the activists who have bizarrely chosen to make Keystone XL a line-in-the-sand issue, when there are dozens more of far greater environmental import. He knows that the way to cut oil use is to reduce demand for the stuff, and he has begun to put that knowledge into practice, setting tough new fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks. That will actually make a difference, unlike blocking a pipeline here or there.”

The editorial says the president “has even less reason to nix the project than last time” and goes on to imply that election-year politics played a major part in Obama’s original rejection of the pipeline.

Now, his administration is delaying a decision on the updated pipeline plan until the spring.

All this talk begs the question: If The Washington Post can see the benefit of the Keystone Pipeline, why can’t President Obama?