Alfonse D'Amato

Hillary's pipeline of lies

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The Keystone XL pipeline is exactly the economic windfall this country needs.

The pipeline, a congressional hot topic since 2011, would carry crude oil from Canada’s tar sands to refineries and ports in the U.S. The project has been stalled for years due to a lengthy State Department review that began when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. The pipeline, which is widely supported by Republicans in Congress, has faced continued resistance by the Obama administration, but a final decision on it is expected sometime this year.

The pipeline would be a $7 billion economic stimulus project that would create the equivalent of 20,000 high-wage manufacturing jobs and 118,000 indirect jobs in the supply and service sectors during its construction. Approximately 160,000 additional American jobs per year would be supported by tar sands oil development if the pipeline were approved.

Yet after months of deploying stall tactics, the woman who could be your next president announced last week that she is opposed to the construction of the pipeline. Clinton has been talking a big game on the campaign trail, claiming that her efforts to tackle climate change and energy dependence would be similar to President John F. Kennedy’s call to action during the space race in the 1960s.

For months, however, she refused to say whether she supported the construction of the pipeline. “I will refrain from commenting on Keystone XL,” she said, “because I had a leading role in getting the process started, and we have to let it run its course.”

What a bunch of nonsense! Is this the type of leader we want to put in Washington — one who shies away from giving an opinion on a critical issue facing our country?

After her leadership decision-making skills were questioned and attacked, she decided to make her opinion clear. On Sept. 22 she released this statement: “Though I wanted to give the president space to make a decision, the process has taken far longer than I expected. I want the American people to know where I stand. That’s why I am making it clear: I am opposed to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.”

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