TPMDC's Brian Beutler asked House Minority Leader John Boehner if he backed Tom Donohue, President of the Chamber of Commerce, in saying taxpayers should help pick up the tab for the BP oil spill. Boehner responded: “I think the people responsible in the oil spill — BP and the federal government — should take full responsibility for what’s happening there.”
He's since walked that back saying he meant the federal government should take responsibility for the response. But this is an even a bigger indictment of his political party and its philosophy. The federal government has been hampered in its ability to respond due to 30 years of Republican assaults on any regulatory agency, rule or law that would have bolstered that capability or prevented the disaster in the first place. His party's energy, regulatory, and environmental policy caused this mess and is what's hampering the governments response. He is the responsible party.
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