Clinton’s Keystone Kill Hillary wants to limit Biden’s running room on the left.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/clintons-keystone-kill-1443047593
Hillary Clinton settled the biggest non-mystery of the presidential campaign on Tuesday by formally coming out against the Keystone XL pipeline. The Democratic candidate, and front-runner at least for now, had played coy for months on the years-old issue, but everyone knew she wasn’t going to buck the donor base of the Democratic left.
Her reasoning is still worth noting. “I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline as what I believe it is—a distraction from important work we have to do on climate change,” she told a community forum in Des Moines, Iowa. “And unfortunately from my perspective, one that interferes with our ability to move forward with all the other issues.”
By “distraction” she probably means the pipeline is the kind of jobs vs. rich green donor issue that is difficult for a Democrat to navigate. The pipeline certainly wouldn’t be a distraction for the 2,000 or so construction and other workers it would employ, as well as the thousands of other indirect jobs it would spin off.
Her move also highlights how government control over energy production in the name of climate change has become the main priority for the Democratic left. With health care increasingly an arm of the state, and higher education getting there as a new entitlement, limiting fossil fuels is the next great progressive frontier. If you want less North American energy production and higher electricity and transportation costs, Mrs. Clinton is saying that she’s your candidate.
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