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The Pipeline and the Nasty People Who Support It

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

23 September 13

n terms of single-minded persistence in pursuit of a policy goal, there are every few people who can match the work that Jane Kleeb has done in Nebraska against our old friend, the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-bisecting death funnel that will carry the world's dirtiest fossil fuel through the heartland of America and to the refineries of Texas, and thence to the world. Jane has worked tirelessly with the farmers in Nebraska to raise the semi-important question of why they should give up their lush farmland to a Canadian company that lies its ass off, and has demonstrated the environmental conscience of the average locust. On Thursday, she got to appear before a House committee, where she was badgered and belittled by a pipsqueak of a 'ho in the pocket of the extraction industries.

This is what happens when you elect a Congress that defines political success in the expression of witless contempt it can express toward the people with whom it disagrees. This is what happens when you elect a Congress full of foul-tempered 'ho's. Watch the video. That's how they feel about the rest of us. And, as I am increasingly beginning to suspect, the president tosses them the approval of the pipeline as a bargaining chip in the ongoing budget apocalypse, these are the kind of people that will get a win. The pipeline's not going through Johnson's district. If it leaks and fails, which is will, because it is a pipeline, and the people who build them do not care if they leak and fail, it won't inconvenience anybody Johnson cares about. His golf course will remain pristine. The next conservative who talks to me about the corrosive nature of our national dialogue gets a pie in the face. I am not kidding.

 

The great thing is that Jane's response is to go back to Nebraska and have a barn-raising -- specifically, the raising of a clean-energy barn right in the pipeline's proposed path. This is the way to do things.
 

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Republican Launches Personal Attack Against Keystone XL Activist At Congressional Hearing