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March 23, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 23, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Yes, America's anchor man is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in no supporting paperwork whatsoever, coming to you live from the Sanctuary City of Dead Moose Junction in far northern New Hampshire.
Great to be with you.
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Families cancelling vacations.
Fishermen watching their profits burn up along with their boats gasoline.
Drivers buying only a few gallons of gas at a time because they can't afford to fill the tank.
Uh this is how John Rogers begins his dispatch for the Associated Press.
Uh what's interesting about this story is that as he gets deeper into the piece, uh his line is that uh nobody knows who to blame for this.
It's mysterious.
Uh the president has little control over gas prices, according to Chris Kaufman, who spends a hundred and twenty dollars a week on gas to travel the sixty miles between his two jobs at the University of South Dakota in Sioux Falls and at a hotel in Vermilion, South Dakota.
He blames the price spike on threats from Iran to cut off oil shipments through the Straits of Hormuz.
Uh but he believes that's nothing is the President has really nothing to do with it.
It's commodities traders.
Trucker Cory Neeson of uh Ruther Glen, Virginia agrees.
The president is nothing but a full guy, Nissan said as he took a break from his rig at a stop in Wilton, New York earlier this week.
Yeah, uh I g I get what you're trying to say, but he's a fall guy who happens to agree with the fall he he's he's uh he's taking.
He is in favor when you've got a choice of which party to blame.
Uh do you want to blame the the party that is in favor of American energy, that is in favor of drill baby drill, that is in favor of domestic sources uh of energy, or do you want to blame uh or do do you want to say they're the ones to blame?
Uh or do you want to blame it?
Does it make more sense to blame it on the on the party that is opposed to new drilling, that is opposed to new sources of energy in the United States, uh, that thinks you can run the world's leading economy For a year whatever uh year or more that America still gets to hold that title, that you can run the world's leading economy on algae.
Uh that that's the President's view.
The President says you just have to put algae in your tank.
His uh his uh what what is the guy is Nobel Prize winning energy secretary, Stephen Chu says he would be in favor uh of oil prices being what they are in Europe.
So in other words, if you don't like gas at four dollars a gallon, five dollars a gallon, get ready for it at ten dollars a gallon and twelve dollars a gallon.
That is what Stephen Chu, the Nobel Prize winning energy secretary of this administration, is in favor of.
He he likes that.
He likes the idea of that.
Uh uh the president that thinks uh that we should uh go with the uh the Chevy Vault.
Seven thousand five hundred Chevy volts were sold uh last year.
Nobody wants to buy a Chevy vault.
It's uh Rich Lowry at National Review calls it Obama's Edsel, and he's right.
Uh it's it's uh it's it that's exactly what it is.
But uh Obama says okay, no, no, there's no problem.
We just need uh new energy efficient window treatments The President wants to rescue the American economy on window tree.
Sorry about that.
Reminds me of the Kevin Kevin Klein line.
Have you ever seen that Kevin Clyde film Itered out, where he's a uh he's he's a uh closeted gay man and he's uh he's he's got this audio cassette teaching him how to talk butch.
And uh the in fact the guy sounds uh it sounds like Johnny Dodaford up there when he does live for my station EIB.
And so this voice is teaching him how to talk butch, and in the middle of it he says, What an interesting window treatment and Kevin Klein goes, What an interesting treat window treatment and it turns out that that's a trick.
That's not how to talk butch.
But the but President Obama when he talks butch, says, No, no, all we need that was his response to the BP Gulf spill uh in uh a couple of summers back, he goes all we need to do is more energy efficient window treatments.
All you need to do is put algae in your Chevy Vault.
The Chevy vault runs on algae.
All you have to do is if you can get it from one uh piece of seaweed infested water to another, maybe y you can run it, you know, all those lakes that have got the Eurasian milfoil and zebra mussel, put some zebra mussel in your Chevy vault.
It'll run on that.
So President Algae Cylindra, as I like to think of him.
I like to think of him like that because he m makes him sound like a uh gigolo from a nineteen thirties screwball comedy.
President Algae Cylindra President Algae Cylindra uh thinks that as long as we just put the uh Eurasian mill foil in the tank of the Chevy Vault that all will be fine.
Why would you why does trucker Corrie Neeson of Ruther Glenn, Virginia, taking a break from his rig at a stop in Wilton, New York?
And by the way, Cory, if you're listening to the show, call us in uh call in and 1-800-282 uh two eight eight two and explain this to us.
Uh why do you think why do you think the president is nothing but a fall guy?
He is in he is not in favor uh of American energy.
Now, as Rush was talking about yesterday, he's uh he suddenly decided to uh loosen up the regulatory process, and he's gonna approve the Keystone Pipeline.
Now that's great news, you know, the Keystone Pipeline being an all that wonderful fabulous oil from Alberta down to the Gulf.
No uh no sinister oil shakes, no Iranian mullers, no not no Hugo Chavez's.
This is just Canadians.
Your oil can't get nicer than that, can it?
It's like Canadian oil.
Nobody's being brutalized for this oil.
Uh no uh sinister members of the House of Souter involved in it.
It's Canadian oil.
You can't get any nicer than Canadian oil.
And he he having nixed having uh having eighty-six the Keystone Pipeline, he says, now okay, we're gonna build it.
We're gonna build the Keystone Pipeline.
Uh but just the bit just the bit from Oklahoma to Texas, as uh as Rush pointed out, uh they're they're next door to each other anyway.
There's not obviously any burning need for a pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas.
They they abut each other.
You can step, you can actually walk from Oaklay, if you stand on Oklahoma's southern border, it's amazing this.
Try it for yourself if you're in the neighborhood.
If you w you can stand on Oklahoma's southern border and take one step south and you'll be uh on the uh northern end of Texas.
That's how it works.
It doesn't there's not really a burning need for this pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas.
But uh Obama's saying, no, I I get the crisis.
I'm fast tracking this little piece of the keys.
Would it would it kill you, Mr. President, to maybe uh put the pipeline where the oil is, like that's up at the Canadian border.
You know, that and so the oil could at least uh actually get into the pipeline.
All that good Canadian oil up there, you if you you know, if you put the pipeline uh the start of the pipeline where the oil is, it might help.
I'm just you know, I'm not a Nobel piece uh Nobel prize winning uh scientist like Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, but I'm just thinking that if you've got a pipeline, an oil pipeline, it helps for the pipeline to start where the oil is.
I mean, just call me crazy.
Maybe there's some something about this I'm missing, maybe I'm not just not getting it.
But this is uh the president's uh view of energy.
And yet, according to this Associated Press Story by John Rogers of the AP, uh Americans do not know whom to blame, who to blame uh for the high gas prices.
Uh it's not very difficult.
You've got a party that thinks like the Sierra Club, and thinks that uh it thinks basically that America is the Sierra Club, that it's a kind of non-profit institution, it's a non-profit institution.
Uh, that America should should act like a non-profit institution, uh and and it should basically declare itself a kind of wildlife park, uh, and it should and although it has some unfortunate eyesores lying around the place like oil derricks and uh mills and factories and uh and uh uh dams that uh we can blow up the dams and uh return those uh to uh b the the prestigious bits of wildlife that uh like them,
mosquitoes, like you have if you uh blow up the dam, get the water flowing again.
Uh you can take down the mills.
Well, you don't have to take down the mills, you can convert them into a nice uh therapeutic massage place, uh plus a little place that sells like lattes and granola bars, and uh that's far that's far healthier.
So they so we've got an administration that thinks like the Sierra Club and is now expecting to get congratulated uh b for uh putting in a pipeline uh from Oklahoma to Texas.
This is the famous Canadian Keystone pipeline, and neither Oklahoma nor Texas.
I'm just going from I as you know, I'm uh a sinister foreigner myself, so I'm not entirely clear on the map of the United States.
I know there's they've got like New York over on the right hand side and Los Angeles over on the left hand side, and it's like the bit between is all a bit of a blur to me.
Uh but as far as I know, neither Oklahoma nor Texas borders Canada, where the oil is.
So he's now saying, Well, don't worry about it.
We've fast tracked, we fast tracked this little bit of the Keystone pipeline.
So it's like now the big dig in in Boston.
It's like the big dig in Boston, circa the year 2027, which is when the Congressional Budget Office predicts the entire total collapse of the US economy.
By the way, that's his numbers, by the way, not mine.
I think it'll happen a lot sooner.
But he's saying 2027.
Just thinking about this, if you've got like uh one of those uh CD type uh accounts that's uh coming to maturity uh or whatever at a certain point.
If it's coming to maturity beyond 2027, you probably might as well forget about it.
Take take it out now and take the penalty, because I ain't gonna be a 2027.
That's according to his numbers.
Uh but he's saying he now wants the congratulations for uh the uh for uh putting in this little bit of pipeline.
Uh the environmental group, Clean Air Watch Clean Air Watch, say absolutely this president has been a disappointment, said Frank O'Donnell, president of the environmental group Clean Airwatch.
When Obama was elected, I think public health and environmental advocates thought a number of unresolved problems would be dealt in short order.
And we learned that environmental protection did not prove to be a first tier activity for the White House.
What do you want, Frank O'Donnell?
He's sunk bazillions into Cylindra.
He's uh the Chevy Vault is his marquee vehicle.
He's only his great plan uh for the Keystone Pipeline is to tell the Canadians, oh, you can have a little little bit of the pipeline.
The pipeline is going to go From deep southern Oklahoma to far northern Texas, you can have that little bit of the pipeline, uh, but but nothing else.
But no, that's still not enough for Frank O'Donnell, president of the environmental group Clean Air Watch.
So who's to blame?
For four dollar gasoline, five dollar gasoline, and Stephen Chu, the Energy Secretary, wants European priced gasoline, ten, twelve bucks come in your way.
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Uh something else I want to I want to get to today, by the way.
Um this business that mysteriously mysteriously Obamacare is now going to be costing twice as much as it was predicted to cost.
You recall that when Obamacare passed, uh the costs were estimated to be nine hundred and thirty-eight billion dollars.
Nine hundred and thirty-eight billion dollars, which is just below a trillion.
Uh because it was felt that it would be politically problematic for it to be eight trillion dollars.
So it means a a figure un just underneath a trillion dollars was uh was come up with.
And the question was, how do you get to that figure of just under a trillion?
Uh because the CBO costs everything uh in ten year projections, decade-long projections.
So Obamacare was constructed with no benefits for four years, no lollipops for the first four years.
So the cost of Obamacare was uh nine hundred and thirty-eight billion.
And uh what do you know?
The first two years have now gone by, and so the latest CBO ten year costing is uh mysteriously Obamacare has now doubled in cost from that nine hundred and thirty eight billion to one point eight trillion dollars.
Now just just so the T-word, everyone thought, oh well that's great, this Obamacare, it sounds so affordable.
It's under a trillion, and there's very little there's very few things that are under a trillion dollars in Washington today.
But this is only nine hundred and thirty-eight billion.
Now, two years later, mysteriously, the cost of Obamacare has doubled to one point eight trillion dollars.
And you know something else?
In two years' time, it's gonna be boom up again uh to some other incredible sum.
Because uh in part because it was constructed as an accounting trick to get past uh Congressional Budget Office Accounting.
I think, you know, Paul Ryan's plan, we can talk about Paul Ryan's plan, by the way, uh if you if you'd like.
I'm happy to talk about Paul Ryan's plan.
Um but one of the things I would like to see proposed is that we abolish the Congressional Budget Office.
The fact that we blow it up, uh and we uh and we salt the ground so that nothing grows there ever again.
Uh because this you this particular uh accounting device, ten years, ten year cost projections, is unique uh to the United States.
They don't do it in even in crazy countries like Greece and Spain and Portugal and Ireland and Italy, the so-called pigs uh of the uh European Union, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, uh they don't they don't have this ten year phony baloney accounting trick.
I mean, for a start it's ridiculous.
Uh senators' terms are six years, uh uh congressman's terms uh two years, president's terms are four years.
Uh the idea that anyone's in a position to say what anything's gonna cost in ten years is absurd because it's one of the most basic principles of free societies uh that a parliament can't uh can't bind its successor.
Nobody s so to cost things on the basis uh of what it's g what's gonna be happening in 2022, right?
Twenty twenty-two.
That's ten years' time.
Doesn't seem like a lot of time.
2002 uh doesn't seem particularly like uh a long time ago, but think about 2002.
Did you honestly think the United States would be in the hole it's in ten years' time?
In 2002, in the spring of 2002, that's going back to just after the Taliban had hitched up their dresses and skedaddled out of Kabul.
Did you think uh that uh the United States would be in this hole ten years later?
No, none of us knows what's going to be happening in 2022, which is why the entire CBO accounting trick should be blown up.
That should be the line one of Paul Ryan's plan.
I'm going to abolish the Congressional Budget Office and get the United States back to an honest accounting system.
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Let's go to Grant in Comfort, Texas.
It's a comfort to know you're listening to us in Comfort Texas, Grant.
Great to have you on the show.
Hey Grant, you're live on air.
Uh let's uh let's try no what happened to Grant.
Let's try Patrick in Are you there, Grant?
Let's try Patrick in Sacramento.
Patrick, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Yeah, how are you doing?
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I can.
I can hear you loud and clear from the formerly golden state of California.
Uh well, California's California.
Outside of California.
No.
Don't go west, young man.
Yeah.
That's fine in regards to the gasoline thing you guys are talking about with uh Europe paying ten, twelve dollars and Americans pitching about uh the four or five dollars that we're about to be paying now.
And uh it it brings me back to the JFK incident of him trying to open up the all the oil banks here and make the oil oil companies here pay for it.
And at the same time uh it it it's the taxes that we're paying for actually.
We pay at the pump, we also pay as Americans, we pay uh city, state, uh federal taxes to build and maintain roadways and thoroughfares.
And in Europe they don't.
They don't pay those taxes.
They pay ten dollars a gallon at the pump.
If you drive, you pay for those roads.
Here in America, everybody pays for it regardless if you drive or not.
So that's I think it's a bit of disinformation because they don't let us know the entire truth about why they're paying what they pay.
No, no, the the obviously uh oil costs what oil costs.
The reason it costs uh three times as much in Europe uh certain European countries as it does in the United States, uh is is mainly uh because of taxes.
It's not because uh those countries are being charged more for their oil uh or anything like that.
Uh and and uh you're right when you say that that is supposed to go to the cost of highway maintenance and all the rest of it.
In practice a lot of that money just goes into the general fund.
Uh i in in a way the Europeans look on oil the way a lot of um American states look on cigarettes, that it's something wicked that you shouldn't be doing uh and they're gonna and they're gonna p impose uh big taxes on it to discourage you from doing it.
And Americans traditionally in the in the in the modern era in the era of the automobile have not looked on automobile usage like that, Patrick.
As Americans we have Cadillacs and Suburbans, you know.
Go to other countries, they've got Volkswagens and you know and Yeah, no, I always I always love the I always love the look when you land at say uh Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and you go to the car rental counter and like there's like some big fella from Texas or California ahead of you, and he goes out and he's reserved his car from back in the United States and they take him out to the lot and they show him this thing that's like the size of the cup holder in his Chevy Saburb.
He has to bend up fold himself up like a staple uh to get into the thing.
Yeah, I don't think uh and by the way, Patrick, you know, these small vehicles uh the difference between th this is this gets actually gets back to one of the biggest questions of all.
You know, uh Europe is dying because it's got these incredibly low birth rates, so that it's got hasn't got enough young people to fund its old people.
Like in Greece where uh a hundred grandparents have forty-two grandchildren.
It's an upside-down family tree.
There aren't enough grandchildren to pay for uh grandchildren who are gonna grandparents who are gonna be living on public pensions for thirty years.
Um and so uh and one of the reasons is is if you have these small virtuous cars, if you have the Chevy Vault that Obama wants us to drive, uh you can't actually have big families.
You can't actually put enough kids in that car uh to have enough children paying for baby boomer retirements.
So small cars uh th the the the SUV, the great evil American SUV uh that is regarded as a symbol of bloated America you know, the huge great Chevy behemoth uh that shears the top off the drive-through lane when you're going to uh uh get your Duncan Donuts, uh the that is regarded by environmentalists as a symbol of American excess.
In fact, is one of the few one of the reasons why America is not uh yet in the like the demographic death spiral uh that Germany and Italy and uh these other countries are in where they're all driving around in these tiny little cup holders.
So it's not actually a small point, Patrick.
It is it's actually uh it can actually be an ex th th the number of kids you can fit in your car can actually be an existential crisis uh for the nation.
Very good point.
Very good.
I I hadn't thought about the angle of you know, your your children are the next generation, and so are theirs and so forth.
Uh Yeah.
No, yeah, I mean th that that's that's that's that's part of what that's part of that's one of the big differences uh between here and there, Patrick.
As one suburban.
And doesn't that just bring the fuel cost right back to where it was?
If if you have to have three cars in place of your original one suburban, um it kind of defeats the purpose.
You're putting more kids down the road for for a same-size population.
Yeah, that's that's that's right.
Or you have to have three if if you can't have you if you if you've got a small car, you can't have three kids, particularly now.
When I was a kid, they just tossed us all that there weren't any seat belts or any baby seats or anything.
They just threw us all in the back and we all rolled around and went round sharp bend and the window was open, one of us would tip out and we'd be hanging on, hanging on to the running boards and uh and we'd go around the corner and slide back into the vehicle.
They didn't have all this stuff.
Now now uh I believe in your great state of California, you've got to be in a child's seat till you're thirty-seven or something, isn't that right, Patrick?
I think until you can emancipate the state.
That's right.
I think yeah, that's that's the that well, I think if you're a government worker you could be in the you could be in the child's seat till you're fifty, and then you retire at public expense.
I think that's how that works.
Thank you for thank you for your call, Patrick.
Uh yeah, that's that's the way it was.
You could cram any number of kids.
I mean you may in your in your uh in your model T you could just toss them all in the rumble seat and who cared.
Now they've got all these uh uh seatbelts and uh baby seats uh d until you're uh thirty-seven in California, whatever it is elsewhere.
Uh that actually is that actually gets to this strange war on humanity uh that the Obama administration is waging.
Uh you know this idea now, they're gonna have uh what is it?
They've got they've got free sterilization for college students.
This is part of Obamacare.
Uh I hadn't I hadn't noticed this.
There's all kinds of wacky things in Obamacare.
Um obviously if you've got a medical need for sterilization, like you've got a tumour in the womb or something, and you've got to be sterilized.
Uh that's usually covered by normal health insurance.
But but but Obamacare is actually setting up a separate sort of express through way of sterilization for uh for college women.
You know, for all these college women who are revolted by the Republican war on men, and they're terrified that one of the Republican war on women, the terrified that one of us conservative types waging our war on women, uh might pick you up in a singles bar one night and you might be ha be be carrying the hideous spawn of some conservative within you.
Uh the best way to avoid that is just be sterilized.
Just uh swing along to the old Kathleen Sabelius clinic and she'll give you a shot and boom, you won't have to worry about it.
You won't have to worry about being impregnated by some hideous conservative waging a war on women.
Uh the and the justification for this is incredible.
The justification for this is that uh basically sterilizing uh preventing pregnancy is a health care saving because then that baby doesn't need to be born uh and he won't be clogging up space in the maternity ward, and he won't be having to have all those little shots we give the kids, uh, and then he won't grow up and need a massive supply of uh free government condoms, so it's easier if he's just never born in the first place.
In that case, why doesn't Kathleen Sabelius just put something in the water and sterilize all of us?
This is this is the kind of logic that has led to Europe's demographic death spiral.
You can have a welfare state and you can have a crippled birth rate, but you can't have both.
Somebody has to be born to pay for all the government programs.
And when you have uh Kathleen Sibelius essentially defining uh babies as a cost burden uh that she's going to prevent now by sterilizing the co-eds of America, uh then you're you are simply you're looking at the demographic arithmetic upside down uh and you're and you're basically a big big government liberalism is basically like uh operating like the Shakers.
Uh the Shakers, if you recall, weren't allowed to breed, and they had to win uh people over to their point of view uh simply by converting them.
That's basically Kathleen Sabilus' model for big government liberalism.
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Uh and I think Rick Santorum maybe ought to rethink uh the remarks he made about uh maybe Barack Obama uh being preferable uh to Mitt Romney.
Uh I don't I don't uh I don't think so.
You never get the guy you want, and uh well you do occasionally, uh but even if you do, he turns out to have feed a clay.
I mean, you that's just politics.
That's the nature of the people who are attracted to politics, the nature of the people who run, uh all kinds of uh uh factors flow into it.
If you're in the Messiah business, you should be voting for Barack Obama.
If you actually want a correct course, uh then actually not having Barack Obama taking the oath of office next January is critically uh important.
Whoever is the guy running against him.
Uh and I think that's uh so I think uh Rick Santorum, I you know uh R Rick uh is to a certain extent he was projecting, I think the s the sort of uh thinking of of uh other election voters making their own calculations.
Uh that the the the the people who've been dissatisfied and the centrists and moderates, and they're like irrational people anyway, who the hell knows which way they're gonna go.
I mean we uh we haven't yet reached that stage where they have the CNN I always love that point in the CNN presidential debates, where they then cross to a carefully finely calibrated demographically accurate selection of centrist independent voters who haven't made up their mind.
They're sufficiently interested in politics that they want to go on CNN and provide post-game analysis for the presidential debate.
But they've been following it for two years and they haven't made up their mind.
And it's now the third week in October, and Obama versus Romney and or Obama versus Santorum or whatever it is, they've just sat through two hours of the presidential debate, and uh and and the guy the first guy they go to usually so it's usually a woman, the first woman they usually go to says, Well, I didn't hear them I didn't hear them uh talk a lot about issues of concern to me.
Oh dear, that's that's maybe maybe if you'd just mailed in the script beforehand, what what is of you know, what is of con sorry they were busy talking about uh the Iranian nuclear program.
I know that doesn't seem a big deal to you, at least not until you wake up one morning and look at the big mushroom cloud out hanging over Main Street.
I know it's not a big deal to they didn't talk about issues that aren't of concern that that are of concern to me.
Nobody can tell how those centrist moderate squish guys are gonna are gonna go.
But from but for most people uh on the right or centre right, and for a big chunk of independence, real independence, all those all those people who artfully told themselves that this was that in 2008 that this guy was a a prudent fiscal fiscally uh responsible centrist, all those guys who twisted themselves up in a pretzel to do that.
Uh they they have learned the hard way that they cannot uh they cannot afford the costs of their preening moral virtue in voting for Obama and uh and and that they're gonna have a you like you think what this guy has done, by the way, just in an election year.
And in election year, when Catholic voters are supposedly important to the Democratic Party, he's just said nuts to you, we're boom, full steam ahead.
What do you think he's gonna be introducing?
What do you think he's gonna be introducing if he gets re-elected in February and March of twenty thirteen?
Uh you look at what he's done facing his election.
He nicks the Keystone Pipeline.
That is literally a no-brainer.
That is that is something uh that it's not doesn't even involve anyone on as I said, it's Canadians.
It's like the nice I I know I'm biased in this regard, but it's like who could who could be opposed to Canadians?
He's taken Canada.
Canada's now gonna ship that oil uh it's gonna build a pipeline over to Vancouver and ship the oil to China.
Uh he did that in an election year.
He did that facing re-election.
What do you think he's gonna be doing in January twenty thirteen when he doesn't have to worry about election ever again?
Uh and that's why with respect to Rick Santorum, what uh whatever the context of this, I think he just needs to come out and make it clear that, you know, uh leaving aside any differences and uh you know the large amount of personal contempt uh certain Republican candidates ha uh seem to have for the other Republican candidates, leaving aside all that, whoever has got the R after his name uh this November is gonna be a better bet than Obama, because you really do not want to see what an Obama second term will bring.
Mark Stein in for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
They're building they're building this new pipeline.
He's just given permission to build the pipeline.
The Canadian oil pipeline will start in Cushing, Oklahoma, which is, I gather that's just like a couple of miles south of the Canadian border.
So he's asking Trans Canada, which which wants to build the Keystone Pipeline.
He's saying, well, no, no, we've we've uh we've said you can't build the whole pipeline to get your oil from Alberta to the Gulf, but we're gonna let you build a little sliver of it starting in Cushing, Oklahoma.
Uh the pipeline to nowhere.
The pipeline to nowhere.
That we can agree to.
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