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GOP gives up on Keystone XL pipeline for ... bike trails

Today, Republican members of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee stood as firmly as wet noodles.

https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/218103060487077888

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Apparently this is what passes for compromise these days:

Congressional negotiators are on the brink of a deal to extend federal highway funding for two years, ending a four-month push by both chambers and likely wrapping up major legislative business before the July Fourth recess.

The agreement will extend highway spending authority and the gas tax for roughly two years, sources said. But it comes at a price: Republicans had to drop their insistence that President Barack Obama approve the Keystone XL pipeline, and Democrats had to settle for allowing states to opt out of spending some funds on nonroad projects like bike and pedestrian paths. The GOP also rolled back its insistence on curtailing the EPA’s ability to regulate coal ash.

Naturally, the deal gives Sen. Barbara Boxer the warm fuzzies.

Boxer, in her own predictive statement Wednesday, cited faster project delivery without violating environmental laws and increased biking and pedestrian funding flexibility as victories and said the legislation will preserve or create up to 3 million jobs, a “critical focus of Democrats.”

Really, Ma’am? Jobs are a “critical focus” for you? Is that why the Democrats have pushed back so hard against the Keystone XL pipeline, which would create real jobs?

This is all just peachy. And while Babs is out there touting the wonders “increased biking” would do for the economy, what have the Republicans done? True, the Democrats may not be able to get all the bike trails their hearts desire at the moment, but they still have bragging rights, because they suckered the Republicans into giving up a lot more. Not only has the GOP agreed to lay off pushing the pipeline for now, but they’re also leaving the EPA to its own devices. Way to fight the good fight, guys. We don’t really need those jobs anyway.

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Uh, kind of, yeah.

The Republicans’ wimp-out-age has left a bad taste in Twitterers mouths:

https://twitter.com/jeffemanuel/status/218106941845667840

https://twitter.com/CAAmyO/status/218107540477718530

https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/218107347623616513

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https://twitter.com/LachlanMarkay/status/218115389782097923

To quote John Boehner, who actually seemed to have a pair during the health care debate, “HELL NO!” We won’t forget.

Missing: Republicans’ spines. If found, please let us know.

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