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It might be best if we change the terms of office to 6 or 8 years for President just to avoid both parties electioneering the day after the inauguration. And make the year before the election a 'gap year' so all elected officials won't have to pretend to five a rat's ass and can just spend their time raising money and lying.

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Point well taken. Only one term. No relatives elected within a 25-year period except for third cousins. Only one Texan per fifty years. And no one from Arizona.

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I'm sure she did, but they probably "don't take orders from no woman" and maybe looked up for themselves that Keystone I had the <a href="http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/2011-09-01-the-last-keystone-pipeline-had-a-record-number-of-leaks\/" target="_blank">leakiest first year</a> of any pipeline in US history.

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<a href="http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2012\/03\/14\/443909\/report-keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline-more-of-an-economic-liability-than-benefit\/" target="_blank">Never ever</a>

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Keystone beer is really crappy. Why would anyone want to pipe that stuff anywhere?

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<i>Republicans are holding firm to their threat that they won’t do it unless approval for the Keystone pipeline is built in, a move that has prompted officials to declare the bill, to use a technical term from the Hill, “dead.”</i>

The new daredevil game is seeing how long you can listen to what wingnuts say before you start feeling syphilis symptoms.

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Don't confuse Keystone and Keystone XL.

Keystone already exists, and delivers filthy shitty planet-killing sludge to Indiana and Oklahoma (on such rare occasions as it isn't just spilling it all over the damned place) where it is refined pretty much entirely for domestic consumption.

Keystone XL will move filthy shitty planet-killing sludge from the exact same source, in larger quantities, direct to shoreline grandfathered no-standards planet-killing refineries for processing largely for export.

In other words, the Republicants are fighting to divert oil away from domestic consumption into the global market, all while killing the planet faster.

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As long as everyone remembers "not to hear" them shouting "I suggest the absence of a quorum" as they head out the door.

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And at a time when it was simply impossible to conduct a review because there wasn't even a route <em>to</em> review.

Is there even a route through Nebraska now? The holdup to the review process last year was that the proposed route was withdrawn after the Republican governor and almost entirely Republican congressional delegation objected to the fact that the proposal took its nasty horrible planet-killing sludge right over the shallowest part of one of the world's largest aquifers.

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