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What's With The Party-Pooper In Chief?

Guest post by: Michael Hume

Article Overview: Normally I'm very supportive of our president. After all, he has the toughest job on the planet, and it must be incredibly difficult to get up every day and do the often-self-abasing things he has to do to get the job done (meaning, get re-elected with a record of "governance" like his). But he's really dropped the ball on this Keystone Pipeline thing. I mean, Mardi Gras is right around the corner, and he's depriving the gulf states of the smoothest Got-danged beer out there....

What's With The Party-Pooper In Chief?

Depriving The Nation Of Smooth Beer Helps No One Normally I'm very supportive of our president. After all, he has the toughest job on the planet, and it must be incredibly difficult to get up every day and do the often-self-abasing things he has to do to get the job done (meaning, get re-elected with a record of "governance" like his). But he's really dropped the ball on this Keystone Pipeline thing. I mean, Mardi Gras is right around the corner, and he's depriving the gulf states of the smoothest Got-danged beer out there!

Keystone is a brand of beer brewed by the Adoph Coors Company, a proud Colorado business with a storied tradition of crafting the nation's finest beer from pure Rocky Mountain spring water. Keystone, however, was first brewed in 1989 in Chico, California, presumably from pure Rocky Mountain spring water that had to be trucked in from the pure Rocky Mountains. If the TV contraption is to be believed (and at least it was to be believed in the 1990s, when these ads were aired), Keystone is ALWAYS smooth. Never bitter. And that's the kind of beer (and LOTS of it) America needs today.

Apparently they're now brewing it in Canada, since that was to be the source of this famous Keystone Pipeline. Now, I can't tell from the beer ads, or even from the "news" programs, whether the pipeline was intended to pump pure Rocky Mountain spring water up to Canada for transformation into beer, or whether it was meant to pipe smooth, easy-drinking Keystone beer to the gulf - or even both! - but that's not the point. The point is that the president nixed the pipeline, and now we're all screwed!

He said the legislative proposal to approve the pipeline was only offered to him a few months ago, with no time to really review it. So he rejected it after a cursory glance at the facts, which were not promising. First, the pipeline would've created at least 22,000 American jobs almost immediately (and a six-figure number in the fullness of time) - and that would not do anything for the president's campaign narrative that jobs can only be created by government "stimulus" spending. Second, the pipeline would've been the most environmentally-safe way to transport the liquid, which now has to be moved by trucks and trains that might spill it - so keeping the spills to a minimum wouldn't help the president show the sort of problem-solving leadership he displayed during the gulf crisis with British Pilsner a couple years ago. Third, the pipeline would've eased our dependence on foreign beer, which would make the president's most important constituents (our enemies) grumpy. Finally, he found out some Republican somewhere (or it might've been a Tea Partier, or a business owner) was in favor of the thing.

Another possible factor is the eventuality that, without a Keystone pipeline south out of Canada, the Canadians will build the same pipeline westward, to the Pacific, where they will then dangerously transport the beer to China, in ships which (again) might spill it. But it is an undeniable fact that the Chinese are sorely in need of smooth beer, and it's possible they called the president and said, "Look, you owe us. Kill the pipeline and make them send the beer to us!"

You can appreciate the tough spot he's in, but I still think the president should've approved the Keystone Pipeline. Just this week, he did say he was in favor of an "all of the above" approach, so why doesn't he want us to have all that delicious, smooth beer we could get from our friends up above us there, in Canada? I don't get it. But I do know this: If enough voters succumb to bitter-beer-face by November, well, that's gonna be a problem for the Party-Pooper In Chief.

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