[Cowboy89]

That's a very Canadian view on this. "If only we were nicer!" lol.

This (As always is the case with Washington) is about politics.

I read an article in the Globe and Mail that essentially said the delay was because Obama is mostly concerned with the Democrats holding the Senate in the November Elections. If the Dems lose the senate, then the Republicans hold both the house and the senate and Obama is a complete lame duck for his remaining two years. Also the senate and the house could approve Keystone and side step Obama altogether in that scenario.

The six incumbent democrat senators in play are in traditionally red states and they all support Keystone. So Obama cannot flat out reject Keystone now, because these red states would vote out the dem senators. He also cannot flat out approve it now, because in order to combat the Koch brothers money supporting Republican challangers in the senate races, the democrats need environmental activist and stanch anti-keystone billionaire Tom Steyer to put up money to defend the democrat senators in the races. It sounds like a 'House of Cards' episode, but looks like that might actually be what's going on.

But, maybe if Harper asked more nicely, Keystone would have been approved!