Noem: Keystone XL Opens Opportunities for South Dakota

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Noem: Keystone XL Opens Opportunities for South Dakota

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Kristi Noem today issued the following statement, after President Trump issued a presidential permit to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline:

“Access to energy is central to improving our national security and building a more robust economy that offers better jobs and higher wages.  Not only does the Keystone XL Pipeline offer these large-scale benefits for our country, its construction will translate into added revenue for cash-strapped South Dakota counties, relief on our roads and rails, and job opportunities for folks across our state. I’m glad to see President Trump move forward on this critical piece of American infrastructure.” 

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35 thoughts on “Noem: Keystone XL Opens Opportunities for South Dakota”

  1. How bad of a hit does Kristi take for supporting her buddy Paul Ryan’s healthcare bill?

    1. My thoughts exactly, and on twitter she posts about a sporting event?
      Promises, promises! Working for South Dakotans?

  2. Joe, are you kidding? Thanks to the wackos on the extreme right, we get to keep Obamacare, possibly forever.

    The Trump-Ryan bill was the best possible as it could be passed via Reconciliation and avoid Senate filibuster. The plan advocated by the wackjobs was dead on arrival in the Senate because we don’t have 60 Republicans.

    I hope everyone of those wackjobs on the extreme right get primaried because they obviously are too stupid to understand what is possible and the art of the deal. We went for Trump to get things done and handicapped him with 30 morons.

    1. Troy Jones, you should be hugging those conservatives who didn’t bow down to RinoRyan and stood their ground against the crapsammich he wanted to feed the country.

      They kept the soon-to-be bankrupt Obamacare in place. Why are you bad mouthing them? Isn’t that what you wanted?

      Oh ya, I know that answer.

      1. Exactly, A Nony Mous.

        This bill was a crappy piece of legislation, crafted in secret, behind lock and key by House leadership. When rolled out to the Republican conference, not at all resembling the bill which was sent to Obama’s desk in 2015. Paul Ryan failed miserably to build consensus. A huge fail in legislative leadership.

        House leadership and those who blindly fell in line with them will be primaried (remember Eric Cantor, if you think it can’t happen).

        I am thankful for the steadfastness of the Freedon Caucus. They saved us from Obamacare Lite as offered by Paul Ryan.

  3. Troy-
    I would encourage you to check out Buck Sexton or Ben Shapiro podcasts. The Trump-Ryan bill was not good for the American people. They can do a better job repealing ObamaCare.

  4. KM,

    In a fantasy world, you are correct. Those morons think they can fabricate 60 votes out of thin air. There is no pixie dust.

    We have to live in reality and we have nothing now and when Obamacare implodes there will be less enthusiasm for repeal/replace because too many people will be uninsured. The wackos have INCREASED the odds we get Medicare for all or keep Obamacare for ever.

    The extreme right owns Obamacare for what they did to gift the 60th vote and keep it. Unfortunately, they take Trump down and the majority such the result will Be Bernie Sanders. Wholly moronic.

    1. Just what was so good about this bill? It did not lower premiums or deductibles (oh, maybe in phase three they said, and like we the people are going to believe that). Evidently it kept illegals on Obamacare or Medicaid or whatever. Only 17% of the people wanted it, and those who opposed it were not all wackjobs or extreme right. Yes, it had some good parts, but it didn’t get rid of Obamacare. So just Obamacare die its own death, and then both sides can come together and craft a bill that truly will help us. This bill was put together behind locked doors, arms were twisted, brides were offered, and the legislators were told to vote for it. Kinda sounds a lot like what got us Obamacare.

  6. Springer,

    If you think this bill is the same as Obamacare, you think it would have had 80% support of the Republicans in Congress and President Trump and 0% of the Democrats?

    Imagine what you would think if a couple of players on an NFL team tried to tell all the coaches and the rest of the team “throw me the ball” or I won’t run the play you call. That is what those wackos did.

    And all the wackos who are defending those dishonorable selfish pieces of dung are like the fat kid eating cheetos in his parents basement criticizing the coaches and players actually in the room.

  7. P.S. When Obamacare dies and millions lose their insurance and the rest of have out premiums, if you think we will get a better bill you are nuts. We will get Medicare for all.

  8. Like the rest of the industrial world, we’ll eventually have a uniform system of health care. Normally I appreciate and enjoy your opinions on this blog, Troy, but take a breath, have a little de-caf, and let Trumpo stew in his defeat.

    Specifically, what was really so great about this dumpster fire of a bill, and don’t you think your party would have been better served had RyanTrumpCare been more thoughtfully constructed, rather than just trying to slam through something not ready for prime time so Trumpo could get a win?

    “ObamaCare” is the law of the land. Clearly, had the Republikan-controlled House been given a suitable bill, they could have passed it. I’m sure John Boehner is happy he didn’t have to try to get this turd through. Saying the “wackjobs” own it makes about as much sense as Trumpo’s blaming its defeat on the Demos. They didn’t even get a vote.

  9. This post is about the production of energy and it’s transmission, not about the job-killing ObamaCare. We could be #1 in energy production if it weren’t for anti-Growth zealots or environmentalist wackos as Rush Limbaugh would say. The same groups of environmentalists have been successful in opposing Dakota Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Expansion Project, Big Stone 2 clean coal- burning power plant, and Hyperion oil refinery. Right now, they are going after hydraulic fracturing & horizontal drilling, Keystone XL Pipeline, and the Dakota Access Pipeline. Tactics are take it to court again, and again, and again: delay and delay. Their main ally is the main-stream media from the New York Times down to Argus Leader and the Brookings Register.

  11. Springer,

    What do you think about the President’s overture to the Democrats to fix Obamacare?

    You think the bill is moving to the right now that he is working with the Dems? Nope.

    Think the Dem’s will agree to rescinding Obamacare Medicaid expansion? Think the Dem’s will agree to removing the federal mandate of what are essential benefits (i.e. birth control for nuns and post-menopause women or certain coverages)? Think the Dem’s will remove the individual mandate?

    Those right wing wackos are persona non grata with the President because he decided they weren’t honest. Reports are he got the moderate Republicans to hold fast if the bill encompassed what Freedom Caucus said was necessary for Freedom Caucus support. When the Trump agreed, Freedom Caucus said they wanted more. Trump hit the roof and said “I’m taking names and I won’t forget.”

    The right wing wackos are as dangerous to this country as the left wing wackos.

    1. Troy, are you sure this is you posting? Your posts are usually well thought out, reasonable, and not filled with name calling etc. Maybe if this new health insurance bill (Obamacare is after all health INSURANCE, not HEALTH CARE) had been developed with input from all, without a deadline to just “pass it and then see what is in it,” and with more transparency so the public would know just what was and was not in the bill, maybe it would have had a chance as passage. As it was, only apparently 17% of the general public were in favor of it, and that means those against it were not only Dems and, in your words, wackjobs, but lots of others as well. I am upset that the GOP didn’t have a well thought out bill ready to go; they had seven years to design one. Yes, the GOP happily passed repeal bills for years, knowing they wouldn’t go anywhere with O in the White House anyway, but they should have been getting ready for the possibility that they would win and could actually get rid of Obamacare.

  12. Springer,

    Trump has given the wack jobs til Wednesday and then he is working with Dems. The reason so few are for this it is 50% are Dems who want to keep Obamacare and the rest are listening to the Wack jobs who think they can get a better bill.

    The sign of a moron is he is willing to forego the possible for the hope of a fantasy. Well, the fantasy is gone and all we are going to get is the nightmare of universal healthcare when Obamacare implodes and Dems take back the government.

    1. OK, you seem to be so knowledgeable about this bill. Tell me why you supported it. And please do it without calling anyone who questioned the wisdom of this bill a wackjob. That is beneath your usual postings.

      1. I agree with the wackjob name calling; it”s immature. Medicaid is not health insurance & it would seem ACA and ACAH are just a redistribution of wealth. Would be nice if the Republicans would do what the promised & repeal. Having a free market sure would seem logical, it’s how we buy car insurance & home owner insurance.

    1. Subsidies were still there, just now called tax credits. You could pay no taxes at all and still get a tax credit for health care, right? Just like earned income tax credit?

      It said nothing about lowering premiums and deductibles, except that this was to be addressed in part 2 and part 3. Sorry, but I don’t trust that to be the case.

      It only defunded Planned Parenthood for one year; then what?

      Did it address the mandates that a woman has to be prostate insurance and a man has to buy maternity care? I couldn’t find that in my search. Did it address the mandate that the Little Sisters of the Poor had to provide insurance that paid for abortions; didn’t find that either.

  15. Springer,

    But here is the real thing the wack jobs did who are just as complicit of liberalism’s success as Bernie Sanders.

    If Trumps plan for health care had passed, it was likely his tax cuts would have passed (now being questioned because of the wack jobs).

    If his tax cuts were to pass, we would have higher economic growth.

    If both had occurred, we could have increased our Senate membership and had a chance to get to 60 votes and wholly e,imitate Obamacare.

    But instead, the people will reduce our numbers in the swing states (the nut jobs Freedom Caucus members are from safe districts) and when Obamacare implodes and 100 million are uninsured (maybe even you Springer), we will get Medicare for all.

    Those Freedom Caucus members and their wack job supporters own this fiasco. Now it appears Trumps distrust of the wack jobs is so great, he passed an olive branch to the Dems today to get tax reform passed. He will probably end them to deal with Dodd Frank too.

    Thanks wackos.

    1. You are now revealing yourself as a liberal Republican. That’s fine and I am not going to call you names for that. It would be nice if you could do the same for those more conservative Republicans who disagree with you.

      If that 100 million who will be uninsured when Obamacare implodes are still affording smart phones, flat screen TV’s, cable TV, nice cars, etc, then they evidently actually have enough income to purchase health insurance if they really wanted to and we taxpayers should not have to subsidize them.

      1. Agreed, I did think this was a more conservative website. Seems to be leaning liberal & name calling people who disagree is sad when you are an adult.

    2. Rather than the Freedom Caucus, should all if these things happen, I will blame Paul Ryan, Keven McCarthy and Steve Scalese (and whoever else they allowed behind those locked doors to craft this awful legislation).
      Relative to stifled momentum in the new Trump presidency: If someone is to be blamed (other than Trump, himself for trusting Ryan), it is Paul Ryan. Ryan let Trump (and the American people) down. Period.

      1. I agree about Paul Ryan. How quickly was this bill put together and did he include others’ input? Seemed to be done a quickly as possible and was just ObamaCare 2.0

  16. Guy,

    You are a typical wacko living in a fantasy. This was the best possible bill to get thru the Senate without having 60 votes. Trump knew it. Price knew it. Pence knew it. Only those living in a fantasy didn’t know it.

    No matter how much you want to pretend we have 60 votes or it doesn’t take 60 votes, it is still a fantasy. And just because you want to live in that world, we will get to live with the liberal consequences of your delusion.

  18. Kelly,

    You do realize that almost half of Americans don’t like the bill because it defunds Planned Parenthood, rolls back the expansion of Medicaid, etc.

    What has effectively happened is Obamacare is law, Obamacare supporters are unified in opposition to any change AND those who want to do ANYTHING with/to Obamacare have been divided.

    Instead of accepting what was possible politically, we have nothing in the divided pursuit of each group’s concept of perfect.

    1. Can you back the statement that almost half Americans do not want to defund Planned Parenthood. Pretty sure polls show that is not true especially after the videos came out about the selling of body parts of the murdered babies. It is difficult to continue to return to SDWC site when you call people names.

  20. Kelly,

    I’m not sure I understand what you expect me to square.

    There was not sufficient support for a straight repeal once the GOP had to govern because members wanted to know what was the replacement part of the promise Ryan alluded to in his remarks. So, Trump/Ryan/Price had to construct a replacement sufficiently attractive to get through both houses.

    Unfortunately, in the end, there was nothing sufficiently attractive on a replacement side so we got nothing and we are pinning our entire hopes on the collapse of Obamacare and it won’t be replaced by Medicare for all. Wacky in my mind because there is not longer a scenario for any change to the right of what didn’t pass last week. All realistic scenarios are to the left.

  21. KM,

    Referencing the EXACT same poll Kelly Lieberg referenced to say TrumpCare was unpopular, “American voters oppose cutting federal funding to Planned Parenthood 80 – 14 percent, including 60 – 32 percent among Republicans.” https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2443

    At the end of the day, we had a chance to roll-back Medicaid expansion and repeal/replace Obamacare and it didn’t happen because of the wack jobs in the Moron Caucus (fka Freedom Caucus).

  22. OMG, here we go.

    Moderate Democrats who don’t want Obamacare to implode have approached the President saying they can deliver enough Democrats to pass the bill that was defeated with one change: No roll-back in Medicaid Expansion.

    Besides not rolling back Medicaid, those Medicaid savings are part of how the President/GOP was going to pay for their tax cuts.

    Thanks to Moron Caucus (fka Freedom Caucus there are two choices before the President:

    1) Obamacare stays as is and he can’t pay for his tax cuts.
    2) Obamacare is reformed, Medicaid Expansion remains*, and he can’t pay for his tax cuts.

    Whether it be war or politics, Democrats understand gaining ground is better than not gaining ground. We should have taken what we could have gotten last week and then fight another day from our new ground. Now, we are trying to hold the ground we had before.

    P.S. Republican controlled Kansas just approved Medicaid Expansion because they believe if Trumpcare passes it will not roll-back Medicaid Expansion but give States Medicaid Block Grants equal to their expanded Medicaid rolls (not rolled back).

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