Why should taxpayers fund such an enormous failure by BP? American budgets are stretched enough due to the Republican Recession and now they want everyone to contribute even more? BP makes enough money to fund their own damned cleanup program without stripping more money from the public. More from TPM:
"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.
On Friday, Donohue made clear that 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."
