Pressure on Boehner pays off?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/pressure_on_boehner_pays_off.html

Pressure on Boehner pays off?


As I've been noting here, Dems have been pressuring John Boehner to say what, specifically, he'd willing to support in order to hold BP liable for the cleanup and damages associated with the Gulf disaster. Now he's finally clarified: He supports lifting the liability cap on BP.

Last week, after taking good deal of criticism, Boehner's office finally made it clear that he supports holding BP responsible for the costs of not just the cleanup, but damages, too. But his office wouldn't endorse any particular legislative means to make this happen.

On ABC News this morning, he revealed his new position:



It's still unclear how this will play out in practice. How much much Republican support there will be for the specific Dem proposal in the House that would actually accomplish what Boehner wants by lifting the cap completely and hold BP liable retroactively? What about in the Senate, where Republicans have repeatedly blocked efforts to lift the cap?

But Boehner did flatly endorse holding BP responsible for "every dime," putting him generally in the right place on the issue. His announcement amounts to a tacit acknowledgment that public rage at BP, and the public's desire that lawmakers hold the company accountable, have left Republicans little maneuvering room. In other words, the insistence on holding BP fully accountable is, and will continue to be, a very potent political issue for Dems.

.... kudos to one of my Twitter crush-boys Brian Beutler for nabbing Boehner on this last week and starting the process rolling.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/boehner-government--ie-taxpayers--should-help-pay-for-oil-spill.php

This makes me so happy. I am going to increase my calls to their (repuke leaders) offices. I've been told they have no shame, but it is good to see that they are beginning to crack. Time for me to call them about aid to states. F*ing Mitch McConnell needs some DU attention.

Boehner's office number is now on a sticky on my monitor.

explained to him what a dumbass he was being by going there. Now he claims he didn't mean what he said. :eyes:

Chastised Boehner claims he ’said from beginning’ he wants BP to pay for spill

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0613/chastised-boehner-bp-pay-spill/

Boner sez "I think lifting the liability cap on BP and for this spill is appropriate." Note "this spill". Host Jake Tapper asked, "so lift it entirely for BP?" Then a law is passed aimed at BP, which is unconstitutional.

think anyone paying attention would be appalled if the gop didn't think it appropriate to punish bp.

Just remove the cap for everybody.

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There really are no words.


Thanks for waking the neighborhood dogs... :D

Is the current cap on liability in any way a result of Gop crapola campaigns to do 'tort reforms'.
Did they actually accomplish a tort reform that will indeed let BP off the hook?

Because it seems to me if the cap was 75 million on the day of the explosion that changing it back now to unlimited will probably be argued by BP lawyers as an ex post facto law that cannot be applied to this spill.

God, I should have been an evil lawyer.

The only upside if my scenario plays out is that it could be hung around the GOP neck in perpetuity, but not likely that would ever be a focus for the DLC or the 'liberal' media.