Ted Cruz: Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging Greenpeace activists should love Keystone pipeline

[madfloridian]

What a weird thing to say.

Ted Cruz Makes Case for Keystone XL to ‘Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging’ Activists

“If you’re a Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging Greenpeace activist, you should love the Keystone pipeline,” Cruz said at the Heritage Action’s Conservative Policy Summit on Monday.

Cruz, R-Texas, focused his remarks on a push to deregulate the controversial practice of hydraulic fracking and expanding offshore exploration, and in the process, appealed to any environmentalists listening in on his remarks.

“The Canadians are not going to leave the tar sands unmolested,” Cruz said. “They’ll send it to China to be refined there and it will be refined in a much, much dirtier way.

“If your concern is the environment, the last thing you want to do is send that oil to China to be refined there, which will be far more damage to the environment than refining it in the U.S., where it would generate good, high paying jobs,” he added.

What a convoluted argument.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Not only is he nuts, but he's grasping at straws.

I am gobsmacked.

[madfloridian]

3. I love that word gobsmacked.

It just about says it all, doesn't it?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Why, thank you!

I love it!

And I don't get many chances to use it...

[JaneyVee]

2. How about not extracting it in the first place.

[TheMathieu]

4. Oh, fuck off Cruz, you sniveling snivelwitz. nt

[hatrack]

6. You forgot "Latte-sipping", "Volvo-driving" and "Arugula-nibbling", Ted!

Other than that, nice job "reaching out", you condescending pile of dog shit.

[madfloridian]

9. lol they are still referring back to Club for Growth ad against Dean 2003. Video

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017166235

It's so stupid it's funny.

[Lint Head]

7. Gee what a genius! Ted Cruz is soooooooo clever. Who'da thunk it.

How does someone like Ted Cruz, who has no brain whatsoever, come up with this shit? It's amazing? He must be channeling his hero Joesph McCarthy. Or Crazy Guggenheim. Wow! Is he Mensa? Or just fuckin' around?

[Recursion]

8. What's convoluted? That's essentially the State Department report's argument too

The extraction schedule in Canada isn't based on whether there's a pipeline or not.

[madfloridian]

10. Uh

That is not my point.

[Recursion]

11. Then help me out here

If the concern is "I don't want the oil being piped over the US where it might spill in my backyard", I get that (and mostly agree), but I usually see people presenting Keystone as a "we need to be extracting and refining less oil" argument, rather than "I want the spills to be elsewhere" argument.

[madfloridian]

13. If our president goes along with what is so obviously harmful

to our environment, to local areas, with such obvious opposition....then it is a simple thing to understand.

It's a matter of a company from another country doing something that can cause great harm with spillage, something that runs people from their homes by eminent domain.

It's just that simple. It is dead wrong.

[Rex]

12. ...

[rustydog]

14. Oh, this is from Carnival Cruz? Then you know it came straight out of his ass.

Right?

[Art_from_Ark]

15. I have two words to say to Mr. Cruz

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Mayflower, Arkansas

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Same exact argument Shultz made last week

On msnbc. I think Cruz watches ted, he's busted.

[Javaman]

17. meh, crazy cruz. nt