Barack Obama

entitled "Understand what this project is" quotes something the President said last week, but misses the last line of the whole quote:

"It doesn't have an impact on US gas prices."

If we did not live in a global economy, that might be true. However, increased supply of oil always brings prices down globally if demand does not rise. Also, every dollar that Canada makes from selling its oil is not money going to a terrorist state.

The President is about to play a giant game of chicken with the Republicon party, and they've been itching for this fight for six years now. A lot of people dependent on the government not being shut down are about to be the collateral damage of this game. If the Repukes get the blame, they have plenty of time to make the mushy middle voters forget about it before the 2016 elections, and if the President catches the blame, he'll have it to the end of his term, truly making him a lame duck.