Finally, John Kerry says something I can agree with

Actually, I think Secretary of State John Kerry might have said two things I agree with, which would, of course, be a first, since I'm not sure I've ever agreed with him on anything. However, in response to Sen. Mary Landrieu, (D-La.),  applying pressure on him to approve the Keystone XL pipeline to bring oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast refineries, Kerry revealed a couple of truths that forced me to agree with him:

“I understand it’s on a lot of people’s minds, a mean a lot of people’s,” said Mr. Kerry, who noted that he has to review public comments along with his department’s lengthy environmental impact report and must “get feedback from eight different agencies.”
“So I’m not at liberty to go into my thinking at this point,” he said, adding, that he is approaching the matter “tabula rasa.”
Once he completes his evaluation, it will be forwarded to President Barack Obama, “who has the ultimate authority to make this decision,” Mr. Kerry said.

First off, of course, it is worth noting that Kerry is lying his ass off about having to review public comments or get feedback from other agencies. His own department already issued its report saying no significant environmental issues militate against building the XL pipeline. The comments have been reviewed and the agency feedbacks have been noted. This this has been under review since before Barry took office, for Christ's sake. No one can find any reason not to approve the project, except for Barry -- he knows environmental groups will stop giving the Democrats money if he approves it. Kerry, at least, pretends he needs to evaluate substantive reasons.

Which leads us to the points on which I agree with Kerry. (I'm not trying to be disrespectful toward Sec. of State Kerry, by the way -- I'm just showing him the same level of respect the left showed toward Pres. George W. Bush, who was usually referred to as just "Bush" by the left, unless they were calling him "Bushitler" or something worse. The justification, of course, was that Pres. Bush was an idiot. Well, W. got better grades at Yale than Kerry did, and he was playing college-level baseball at the same time. So suck it.)

Anyway, Kerry said he would look at the XL pipeline "tabula rasa," which is Latin forr "blank slate." I guess Johnboy thought he was showing off his smarts, but mostly he just conceded what many of us already knew: his mind is blank. So that's one area in which Kerry and I agree.

The other concession Kerry made, with which I agree, is that the president has the ultimate authority to decide this issue. Barry has pretended for years now that he is simply awaiting a decision from the State Department, as if he had no input. Barry is, of course, a lying sack of shit. Johnboy just inadvertently called him one. And I agree.

Even NPR, not exactly a bastion of conservatism, makes it clear that Barry has to decide and that Kerry makes a recommendation only:

Secretary of State John Kerry will make a final recommendation to Obama, who has 90 days to decide. The question is how long the president will wait — and what effect it will have on November's midterm elections, when the fate of Democratic senators from conservative-leaning, energy-producing states will determine whether the party retains control of the Senate.

Good to know that major energy policy decisions depend solely upon party politics. And this from the lips of hard-core liberals like NPR.