Shorter President Obama: I’d Rather Keep My Job Than Help Create Them For Others

In an obvious play to appease his far-left base in an election year, President Obama has decided against the job-creating Keystone Pipeline Project.  From the Washington Post:

The Obama administration will announce this afternoon it is rejecting a Canadian firm’s application for a permit to build and operate a massive oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border, according to sources who have been briefed on the matter.

This decision comes after THE PRESIDENT’S OWN COUNCIL ON JOBS AND COMPETITIVENESS said this yesterday:

President Obama’s jobs council called Tuesday for an “all-in approach” to energy policy that includes expanded oil-and-gas drilling as well as expediting energy projects like pipelines. “[W]e should allow more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands,” states the year-end report released Tuesday by the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.  The report does not specifically mention the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but it endorses moving forward quickly with projects that “deliver electricity and fuel,” including pipelines.

“The Council recognizes the important safety and environmental concerns surrounding these types of projects, but now more than ever, the jobs and economic and energy security benefits of these energy projects require us to tackle the issues head-on and to expeditiously, though cautiously, move forward on projects that can support hundreds of thousands of jobs,” the report says.

You see that? The President of the United States, Barack Obama, has decided against a project that will not only create thousands of jobs for out of work Americans, but a project that HIS OWN Jobs Council says is a good idea. I wonder why? No, actually I don’t.  I know why. It’s because the only job this President is worried about creating is a second term for himself.