Dim Bulb: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

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Who: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. What: Referred to the Keystone XL pipeline project, which Republicans in Congress are trying to approve, as “ideological candy.”

Why it’s Dim: The $7 billion Keystone project, which would cost the government nothing and create 20,000 jobs, would bring 700,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

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