[if lt IE 9]><img src="/static/onion/img/logo_1x.png" alt="The Onion" title="The Onion" /><![endif] [if lt IE 9]><img src="/static/onion/img/icons/weather/pouring_rain_1x.png" alt="Partly cloudy" /><![endif] Every kind of precipitation [if lt IE 9]><img src="/static/onion/img/avclub-small_1x.png" alt="A.V. Club" title="A.V. Club" /><![endif] Follow @TheOnion Video Politics Sports Science/Tech Local Entertainment Fantasy Football More Back Video Politics Sports Business Science/Tech Entertainment Breaking News in Brief • Politics • politicians • oil • ISSUE 50•46 • Nov 20, 2014 RAPID CITY, SD—Excavating hundreds of miles of trench following the defeat of a Senate bill that would have approved the project, dozens of desperate GOP congressmen were reportedly spotted in rural South Dakota Thursday trying to build the Keystone XL pipeline system themselves. “We really don’t have any oth...