Thursday, June 10, 2010

Will Orange Julius Bail Out BP?

It certainly looks like John Boehner wants the American taxpayer to subsidize the clean-up effort in the Gulf.  Brian Beutler reports:
"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.

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."

So today I asked Boehner, "Do you agree with Tom Donohue of the Chamber that the government and taxpayers should pitch in to clean up the oil spill?" The shorter answer is yes.
Really?  I wonder how the Tea Party candidates are going to view sticking the American taxpayer with the clean up bill.  I'd like to ask them if they agree with their party's House leader.

And hey look, Orange Julius is already walking this one back as far as he can now that somebody in his press office figured out what he said.
John Boehner spokesman Michael Steel emails to say Boehner does not believe that the government should be on the hook for the cost of the oil spill.
"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," Steele writes, pointing me to a Boehner statement from May 3, several days after the spill began.
"The White House must ensure that BP bears the entire financial burden to clean up this disaster. Not a dime of taxpayer money should be used to clean up their mess."
And yet Orange Julius's first instinct is to saddle the American taxpayer with another bailout for their corporate buddies.  That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to them for the last several decades.  He also doesn't believe that BP's liability post-cleanup for everyone that this spill has affected should be more than $75 million...which is what BP's worldwide operations take in in about an hour or so considering the grossed over $200 billion last year in revenues.

Keep going there, OJ.

5 comments:

  1. 3 days after the oil spill
    "The White House must ensure that BP bears the entire financial burden to clean up this disaster. Not a dime of taxpayer money should be used to clean up their mess."

    "It is generally not the practice of this country to change the laws after the game.... 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."

    Clearly is stating "Lay this on the tax payers!"

    "Today, following up on Donohue's comments, I asked Boehner, "do you agree with Tom Donohue of the Chamber that the government and taxpayers should pitch in to clean up the oil spill?"

    His answer was straightforward: "I think the people responsible in the oil spill--BP and the federal government--should take full responsibility for what's happening there."


    Again, clearly on the backs of the taxpayers. It's inevitable the Government will share some of the cost in this cleanup for all the Government officials involved including coast guard, national guard, etc.

    GOP Derangement Syndrome from a wingnut blog writer...

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  2. Booger Eating Moron: You fit the very definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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  3. "Fail Harder."

    Than whom? You?

    Sorry, you've set the bar for failure so high that I could never hope to compete. McCain/Palin, anyone?

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