Cushing Speech: Day 1 S/P ROCKS

The Remarkable Obama Cushing-Keystone Speech (ROCKS) was delivered March 21, 2012.

So what we’ve said to the company is, we’re happy to review future permits.  And today, we’re making this new pipeline from Cushing to the Gulf a priority.  So the southern leg of it we're making a priority, and we're going to go ahead and get that done. The northern portion of it we're going to have to review properly to make sure that the health and safety of the American people are protected.  That’s common sense. 

Translation: "This administration will slow-roll the southern portion (wink-wink) but we'll never see the northern portion approved while I'm (Barack) president."

Profiles in courage:

• Obama: "We're happy to review future permits."
• JFK: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard"

Let's see how many days it takes to reach these milestones:

• Day 0, March 21, 2012: ROCKS
• Day 1, March 22, 2012: today
• Day X: headline that TransCanada has started laying Keystone XL 2.0S
• Day X: headline that TransCanada has submitted the application for XL 2.0N
• Day X: headline that the president has approved Keystone XL 2.0N
• Day X: headline that TransCanada has started laying Keystone XL 2.0N
• Day X: headline that TransCanada is having insurmountable troubles completing the Keystone XL 2.0S (Texas ranchers, Sierra Club)
• Day X: headline that TransCanada says the heck with it