[xlib]

Is this right? Don't see anything from Boehner, other than this TPM piece, and others sourcing it. This is ham-handed at best.

[Freddd]

UT OH, the left is afraid Nasty Pelosi is going to lose speakership in November....

[C19fan]

Politically tone deaf on Boehner’s part if true.

[ltc8k6]

Sounds logical though. Whoever allowed BP to drill there, and gave waivers, etc., certainly should bear some of the costs...

Right Barry?

[GeronL]

I hope Boner isn’t trying to lose this election.

If this is true, he is insane.

[The Sons of Liberty]

This doesn't sound right. Maybe he's trying to lay some blame where it rightfully belongs - in 0bamao's lap.

If not, may I remind him - we're broke - $13 Trillion in debt and a large number of the "taxpayers" aren't paying taxes because they're out of work.

[The Old Hoosier]

He appears to have been misquoted by a stupid writer. Check out the update:

Late update: Boehner spokesman Michael Steel emails to say "Boehner made a general statement about who is responsible for the spill, and the federal government oversight was clearly lacking, but he has said repeatedly that BP is responsible for the cost of the cleanup."

Because Beutler doesn't include any direct quotes from Boehner's answer to him, we can only assume that Beutler doesn't know the difference between "take responsibility" and "pay for."

[OriginalChristian]

I don’t know about the rest of you but I feel like I pay for this oil spill and everything else wrong with the oil companies every time I fill up my tank; and Missouri has some of the lowest fuel taxes around so we aren’t paying as much as most. Still p!sses me off though...

[Dayman]

BP’s liability is capped at $75MM unless they voluntarilly agree to pay more. I’m betting BP will reach some agreement with the gov’t where they pay for some and the taxpayers pay for some. Raising the liability cap retroactively would be ex post facto and unconstitutional.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Well, we ought to bill the whack-o environmental groups for forcing deep-water drilling instead of onshore and near-shore.

[Ann Archy]

BOEHNER>>>STFU!! Obama is in the processs of DESTROYING HIMSELF!! STFU!!

[The Comedian]

Maybe he means that every Federal government employee will have to contribute personally to the cleanup, via docking their pay.

Yeah, that's the ticket...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

"Boehner's statement followed comments last Friday by US Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue who said he opposes efforts to stick BP, a member of the Chamber, with the bill. "It is generally not the practice of this country to change the laws after the game," he said. "Everybody is going to contribute to this clean up. We are all going to have to do it. We are going to have to get the money from the government and from the companies and we will figure out a way to do that."

Well, there you have it, the new "American Way", courtesy of the US Chamber of Commerce:

When a big enough company screws up, "everybody" is going to have to contribute so that "we" can "get money from the government" to help cover their costs.

TARP redux, except this time 100% our "contributions" will be going to bail out a foreign-based company.

Pretty consistent pattern here: first, these businesses spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying and publicity to convince the taxpayers that they are "over-regulated" and that "burdensome government bureaucracy" standing in the way of progress, and then all of a sudden when they start to reap the consequences of their own mismanagement and relentless pursuit of short-term profits at the expense of safety, it's all the government's fault because they weren't sufficiently regulated to prevent the screw up.

And interesting how for politicians like Boehner the last bailout was always an abuse of the system and a ripoff of the taxpayers, but the current bailout is always the necessary and proper thing to do...

And it's why solicitations from the USCC and the Republican Party have been going into my wastebasket for years.

[what's up]

The environmentalists should pay because they are to blame.

These deepwater wells are folly.

[element92]

boenher is our of his mind

this is why the republican party is the minority

bp is the lease holder, bp is 100 percent liable