...Warren Buffett, whom President Obama likes to cite as a fair-minded billionaire while arguing for higher taxes on the wealthy, stands to benefit from the president’s decision to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline permit...
Clearly a coincidence, n'est ce pas?
Then again, people who are smarter than I am have always maintained that there are no coincidences in matters of politics and money. The money always leads to the answer and the politics always chase the money. Without exception. So when you find yourself wondering how a coalition of labor unions, environmental groups, minorities, hypocritical billionaires, and common degenerates all manage to support a given political party, you would do well to start with the money.
In this case, one particular hypocritical billionaire has willingly played the role of useful idiot for a few years. He has a payoff coming. The environmental groups are dispirited and in need of a boost before election season. They have a payoff coming. The minorities think Gingrich and Romney want to imprison them for looking different, or whatever. No need to worry about them on this issue. Then we get to the labor unions. The unions got the NLRB fiasco handed to them a few weeks ago, so they're just gonna have to take a kick in the balls this time around. Tough luck if a few thousand of their members don't get jobs to put food on the table for their kids. This is a team sport.
Your role on the team? Paying a few extra bucks for a tank of gas, I suppose. And standing behind your benevolent president while he tells the Canadians to go ahead and send their excess production to the Chi-coms. Surely those lovable commies don't have anything but our best interests in mind, right?
