Obama's Revealing Pipeline Decision

President Obama’s rejection of a pipeline to bring more Canadian oil to the United States is enormously revealing. He sided with the environmental lobby, a major Democratic interest group, over the majority of Americans who favor the job-creating pipeline. And that’s not all.

But first let’s dispose of Obama’s complaint he didn’t have enough time to determine the pipeline wouldn’t damage the environment. In truth, he had more than three years. The State Department twice determined the pipeline to be environmentally safe. And the project’s builders had promised to re-route the pipeline to avoid sensitive areas in Nebraska.