Boehner Sides With BP Over American Taxpayers

Filed in National by on June 10, 2010

By all measures, Democrats should get slaughtered this November. However, Democrats have to run against Republicans in November and they seem determined to remind everyone why we were so eager to get rid of them.

John Boehner was asked whether he agreed with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the government and taxpayers should pay for the oil cleanup.

In response to a question from TPMDC, House Minority Leader John Boehner said he believes taxpayers should help pick up the tab for the clean up.

“I think the people responsible in the oil spill–BP and the federal government–should take full responsibility for what’s happening there,” Boehner said at his weekly press conference this morning.

No matter how bad Democrats screw up, there always seems to be a worse choice.

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  1. Unstable Isotope says:
    June 10, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    Hahahaha. Boehner is trying to walk back his comments, and he blames the messenger.

    As I mentioned below, Rep. Boehner’s office is trying to walk back his suggestion that taxpayers should help foot the bill for the Gulf clean up. His spokesman says he misunderstood the question and believes “BP is responsible for the cost of the cleanup.”

    But this started with comments from Tom Donohue, head of the US Chamber of Commerce who said he doesn’t think the government should force BP, a member of the Chamber, to foot the whole bill. Boehner was asked whether he agreed and said he did. When our reporter pressed Boehner’s spokesman on whether he was saying he disagreed with Donohue’s position, he wouldn’t bite, but just stuck with his statement.

    Now the spokesman is calling Beutler a “numbnut” and claiming he mumbled. So Boehner couldn’t hear him.

  2. shoe throwing instructor says:
    June 10, 2010 at 9:06 pm

    This is the set in stone dogma of all republican and many democratic politicians, the government is to be responsive to the needs of the corporations only. The rest of us are to sit transfixed in front of our corporate media outlets and hope for the best. After all the kindness and benevolence of our corporate leaders is made evident to us every day, Boehners faux paux is just a revelation of what the democratic system here has evolved into, it,s government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations, mark my words, you will wind up paying for every dollar of this clean-up.

  3. jason330 says:
    June 10, 2010 at 9:12 pm

    Sarah Palin, in addition to having nice new breasts, is for a government takeover of BP and stronger regulations (all without raising taxes, natch) as an avenue to more drilling. Her facebookery puts her to the left of Bohner and Obama.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/sarah-palin-demands-hardb_b_606774.html

  4. Unstable Isotope says:
    June 10, 2010 at 9:25 pm

    Ugh. I have a moratorium talking about the half-termer. I can’t believe her figure is political news.

  5. cassandra m says:
    June 10, 2010 at 9:33 pm

    Now this is once choice opportunity. President Obama needs to spend the entire weekend telling people that he will make sure that neither the Republicans or the Chamber will get his administration to spend one taxpayer cent to bail out BP. And Democrats need to be just everywhere saying the same thing.

    Which means it won’t happen, but hey.

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