Obama threatens veto if pipeline decision is added to payroll tax cut

The Hill's E2-Wire h/t Instapundit

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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.

Nice!  But it would be even better if the Republicans would go for partial privatization of Social Security.  The reason being that the Democrats have had no compunction with weakening the finances of the Social Security system.  In addition, Obama threatened to withhold checks during the debt negotiations.   But taking the money and putting it into private accounts does neither of these things, but the opposite.

Good hardball politics.  Not politics schmolitics, which is phoney baloney.  Just like Obama's faux concern for jobs.   Not to mention his faux concern for the middle class.  He is merely using people for his own benefit.