I Miss Bill
Daily Caller is not my first choice to link to, but I couldn’t find a video elsewhere.
Former President Bill Clinton said the federal government should embrace the Keystone XL pipeline that the Obama administration rejected last month. Clinton also said that one of the “best things” about being out of office is “you can say whatever the heck you want.”
“One of the most amazing things to me about this Keystone pipeline deal is that they ever filed that route in the first place since they could’ve gone around the Nebraska Sandhills and avoided most of the danger, no matter how imagined, to the Ogallala with a different route, which I presume we’ll get now, because the extra cost of running it is infinitesimal compared to the revenues that will be generated over a long period of time,” he said Wednesday at the Energy Innovation Summit.
“So, I think we should embrace it and develop a stakeholder-driven system of high standards for doing the work.”
Big Dawg also said this, which reminds me strongly of Gov. Palin’s “unshackled” comment last year:
In his remarks, Mr. Clinton mentioned the advantages of not occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
“One of the best things about being a former president is you can say whatever the heck you want,” he said. “One of the saddest things about being a former president is that nobody necessarily cares what you say anymore but you can say what you want.”
You can watch the video of President Clinton’s remarks here
The Crawdad Hole 
Tornadoes ripped up a lot of places yesterday. 😦
Andrew Breitbart passed away. I’m shocked.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lsolov/2012/03/01/draft/
Obamanation will be celebrating.
Some on the right are already starting conspiracy theories.
I’ll miss him – I enjoyed the way he would go after the media.
@RBPundit (BigHollywood contributor) is retweeting the celebratory hate tweets.
I think Breitbart would approve – he was always retweeting the hate tweets he got.
I am stunned. He’s just one degree of separation away and, of course, so young. And he had four kids. So sad.
Great tweet
he had obama tapes. they killed him.
delete that before J-nap shows up
Too late.
in that case ( I )
I see you are ready for your TSA greeting. 😀
Might as well cooperate, right?
I’ve thus far managed to avoid the feel-ups AND the body scanners at the airports but that will probably change now that I’m on the Crawdad “List.”
Couldn’t help but wonder last time I traveled-why in the hell don’t the people scanning the bags know which passengers they belong to?
All bags are treated equally, which makes sense. But maybe some bags should be treated less equally and hand-searched?
Eh, what do I know.
And PS to Bill Clinton-I still care what you have to say.
Strikes me as a bit odd be taking a walk after midnight …
Wouldn’t be too far fetched. I still wonder about the head of the Arkansas Dem party who was murdered two weeks before the convention. The entire Arkansas delegation had been for HIllary before Gwatney died, then voted for 0 in bloc at the convention.
I was never a fan of Breibart, but OTOH I never considered him to be the personification of evil.
He wasn’t afraid to stir the shit, which is a quality I generally admire.
Palin’s fb post. Breitbart was one of her most vocal defenders.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150591508103435
Never knew much about him, just that he was behind both HuffPo and Drudge which sounded complex. RIP.
The bile I’m seeing from some prominent Progressives commenting on his death is ugly.
Sad. I didn’t agree with his politics, but I loved how he fought for his side. And frankly made mincemeat of the Obots he often battled with.
Obama plans to approve it, he just kicked it down the road until after the election so his tree-hugger supporters could have a temporary reach-around.
I can’t help suspecting that if Obama does get re-elected and does approve it, his version of the Pipeline will have some sort of built-in kickback to him.
OT I skedyuled a post; feel free to change the time on it.
He’s perfected that temporary reach-around, followed by a gentle push under the bus. Apparently most new Dems kind of like it.
that was the plan all along. 😆
the story that very few were talking about seems to have a happy ending
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/01/us-egypt-usa-ngos-idUSTRE8200H520120301
the hostages left Egypt today
US expresses relief after aid workers leave Egypt, says no decision yet on $1.5 billion in aid – @AP
OT but speaking of J-Nap and her pals:
Rep. Marsha Blackburn in Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/02/29/the-tsa-is-coming-to-a-highway-near-you/
I like it!
good for her.
coming through Philadelphia watching our military have to remove their boots while tsa women dressed in muslim attire checked their things sickened me.
How many terrorists have the caught??? none the last I heard
That’s disgusting.
In an Ohio airport I saw the fuckers harass and humiliate an elderly nun. She was ‘randomly selected.’
The poor woman went through the body scanner so many times she’s probably a night light now.
It’s a good idea but I bet that Blackburn would be first in line to deny even these new and better trained agents a living wage.
in the you can not make this up catagory
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/03/01/obama-energy-secretary-chu-says-despite-solyndra-and-other-green-loan-disasters-he-gives-himself-an-a-for-job-performance/
If he defines his job as pleasing Obama, he probably earned it.
:barf:
One of the markers of the immaturity of this administration is their tendency to self-grade. And another is how overly positive they are when they do it.
One of the things I liked least about Bill was his uber-friendliness to business. His implication that the danger to the aquifer was contrary to science and commonsense was very Republican of him and he didn’t even mention the issue of the waste that would need to be burned at the end of the line which would necessarily negatively impact air quality in the area. The environmental issues attached to this project are substantial.
I’ve always thought that Obama was just waiting until after the election to screw people who care about the environmnent and tend to vote Democratic. He’s been uber-friendly to business as well.
Eww.
I just heard Bob Beckel’s theory that Bill Clinton is floating a trial balloon for a potential Obama reversal on Keystone in order to increase his approval ratings.