Chamber Of Commerce Says Taxpayers Should Help Pay For BP Spill Cleanup; Republican Leader Agrees – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce typically doesn’t put itself out there as a big fan of socialism. But that all changes when we’re talking about risk and liability. In those cases, they love socialism to death! And that’s basically how Chamber President Tom Donohue is framing his call to put a greater share of the oil spill price tag on you and me:
“It is generally not the practice of this country to change the laws after the game,” said Tom Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “. . . 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.”
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.
Later, Boehner spokesman Michael Steel tried to soften Boehner’s statement: “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.”
Republican Sharron Angle’s World of Paranoia – In Nevada, the Republican Party has just nominated a former state legislator named Sharron Angle, one of the Tea Party’s favorite daughters, and, it seems, a full-time resident of the paranoid alternate universe.
Angle, it turns out, is some kind of member, or at least sympathizer with, a group called the Oath Keepers, an organization of current and former members of the armed forces, police and firefighters. (So it’s not clear exactly how she even qualifies, since she’s none of those things, but that’s beside the point.) The Oath Keepers are organized around a list of ten orders that they have sworn never to carry out. But, the ten orders are things that only a very paranoid person would be worried about. The Oath Keepers and their sympathizers desperately want to think that the constitutional order has broken down, and some titanic clash is on the way.
[They are part of the fringe of the fringe. Sharon Angle is probably a member of The John Birch Society – see related links at the end of this posting.]
- Angle Proposes that U.S. ‘Deregulate’ Big Oil
- Angle Pushed For Scientology-Based Saunas & Massages In Nevada Prisons
- Angle Advocates Abortion-Causes-Breast-Cancer Myth
- Angle Embraces Oath Keepers Group’s Warning Of ‘Giant Concentration Camps’
- Angle Favors Abolishing Social Security
Lame Stunt: Rick Perry Signs Peace Treaty with Coyote – Texas Governor Rick Perry made an attempt at peace with coyotes throughout Texas, and even the world, when he signed a peace treaty with the San Antonio Spurs mascot at a Valero Energy Corp. event.
Perry claims to have been protecting his daughter’s dog when he pulled his Ruger .38 from the elastic waistband of his jogging shorts and forever changed the relationship between Republicans and coyotes throughout the nation.
How to Drive TeaBaggers Even More Crazy 😉
· In regards to their insane “birther” claims, get their attention and hit them where it hurts. Require that every customer produce a birth certificate before eating at Cracker Barrel.
· Create off-the-wall programs like “Guns for Cinnabons” where they can trade in their firearms for warm, gooey pastries. It’ll be like “Sophie’s Choice” — but with frosting.
· Ask them if they can tell you where to find a copy of the Constitution en Español. Their eyes will roll back in their cabezas.
· Replace all photos of Rand Paul with RuPaul — you know, someone less cartoonish.
Regards,
Jim
Andy Hailey