OBAMA'S UNFORCED PIPELINE ERROR. This, the equivilent of missing the ball and smashing your face with the racket:

The tar sands contain about 1.7 trillion barrels of recoverable oil. Obama has again opted out of energy independence, as he did on the Gulf development and all the other energy projects that would make U.S.-recovered hydrocarbons available domestically. His non-decision has demonstrably treated Canada as a client-state while catering to the Green base of his own party.

Politically, the decision defies logic without a presumption of the president and his inner circle as radical leftists. Obama killed the project in the face of support from organized labor that envisioned 20,000 construction jobs and over 100,000 spin-off jobs which are likely to be permanently lost. The environmentalist left have nowhere else to go next November, while labor needs something to offer its unemployed members, who are the most likely voters to stray from the Democratic plantation.

Can't wait for another four years of Obama buffoonery.