Jobs? What Jobs? Let Them Eat Cake!

Obama continues to slow-roll the oil and gas industry

Jobs, what jobs?

Unemployment back up over 9% (Gallup)

Underemployed flirting with 20% (Gallup)
$6 gasoline?

Link here to Politico.

President Barack Obama is intervening in a Senate fight over the Keystone XL oil pipeline and personally lobbying Democrats to reject an amendment calling for its construction, according to several sources familiar with the talks.

The White House lobbying effort, including phone calls from the president to Democrats, signals that the vote could be close when it heads to the floor Thursday. The president is trying to defeat an amendment that would give election-year fodder to his Republican critics who have accused him of blocking a job-creating energy project at a time of high gas prices.

Update: the Senate killed the Keystone XL, supporting the president. A majority of US senators voted to approved the Keystone XL but the bill did not get the needed 60 votes to pass.