Does The Environmentalist Stance On Keystone Pipeline Make Them Tea Party Of Left?

"Obama Should Approve The Keystone Pipeline"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/obama-should-approve-keystone-pipeline.html

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Alan: If, as seems likely, the Senate can't muster the 60 votes needed for veto-proof passage of the Keystone bill just passed by The House, Obama has a golden opportunity to steal Republican thunder, indicate his willingness to compromise and maybe mitigate opposition to his pending executive orders on immigration by NOT vetoing the bill when it gets to his desk.

MILBANK: Environmentalists are becoming the tea party of the left. They insist on ideological purity within the party, and they'd welcome Landrieu's defeat by a Republican. The Washington Post.

As of Monday night, supporters looked to be one vote shy. Sen. Mary Landrieu said 59 senators had agreed to vote for the bill. Sixty votes are required to overcome a filibuster and send the bill to the president's desk. Laura Barron-Lopez in The Hill.

Obama may veto the bill, but there is a good chance the administration will eventually approve the pipeline. Coral Davenport and Ashley Parker in The New York Times.

At this point, Keystone is basically irrelevant. Declining oil prices have forced companies to look to other sources for supplies anyway. Rebecca Leber in The New Republic.

NIKIFORUK: Extracting oil from tar sands is incredibly destructive. Bitumen mining has already turned an enormous swath of Canadian boreal forest into a wasteland of toxic sludge, threatening caribou populations and groundwater supplies. The New York Times.