Checkmate… GOP to Add Keystone Pipeline to Payroll Tax Cut Extension

** The Republicans threatened the White House to add the Keystone XL Pipeline to the payroll tax extension bill that Obama wants signed before he goes on his next Hawaiian vacation.
** Obama threatened to veto the bill that would add at least 20,000 good paying jobs to the anemic economy.
** Republicans need to call his bluff. Force him to explain to the American public how he just vetoed a jobs and taxcut bill with the stroke of a pen.

The Hill reported:

The battle between the White House and Republicans over the Keystone XL pipeline escalated Wednesday with a veto threat delivered personally by President Obama.

Obama warned that he would veto an extension of the payroll-tax cut, his top legislative priority, if House Republicans link it to a measure that would force the administration to greenlight the pipeline project.

“Any effort to try to tie Keystone to the payroll-tax cut, I will reject,” Obama told reporters Wednesday after meeting at the White House with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Obama said he would not accept a payroll-tax-holiday bill to which Republicans add “extraneous” provisions.

“I don’t expect to have to veto it because I expect they’re going to have enough sense over on Capitol Hill to do the people’s business, and not try to load it up with a bunch of politics,” the president said.

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