You're not really surprised, are you?

You're not really surprised, are you?  The Obama administration has delayed a decision on the Keystone pipeline, again.

It really doesn't matter that most Americans want the pipeline built.  The technical arguments for and against it are also irrelevant.  Realistically Obama only has one option: to kick this can down the road by making no decision at all.  Why?  It's simple: his most generous liberal supporters are almost evenly split between being adamantly opposed to building it (that's the environmentalist wacko wing of the Democratic party) and fervently for it (that's the union wing of the party).  The majority of Democrats – who are in neither of those wings – support building the pipeline.  But their support comes with very little in the way of campaign contributions, so their voice is heavily discounted.

Kick the can, Barack.  It's what a Big Government politician does when faced with the need to make a controversial decision.  Nobody who knows you at all would expect anything else – and certainly nothing that required bedrock beliefs, courage, or even common sense...