Boehner On W.Va. Chemical Spill: 'We Have Enough Regulations'

[kpete]

Boehner On W.Va. Chemical Spill: 'We Have Enough Regulations'

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) doesn't believe the GOP should reconsider its deregulation agenda after a massive, coal-linked chemical spill left hundreds of thousands of West Virginians without tap water at a site state regulators last fully inspected in 1991.

"We have enough regulations on the books. What the administration ought to be doing is their jobs," Boehner said at a weekly press conference on Capitol Hill.

While Boehner said that somebody ought to be held accountable for the failure in oversight, the Speaker explained his party was focused on eliminating "cumbersome, over-the-top" regulations that were "costing the American people jobs."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/boehner-on-w-va-chemical-spill-we-have-enough-regulations

[malaise]

1. Fuck him

Hope he and his own suffer from the lack of regulation on of these days.

[NuclearDem]

2. Oh, well then please feel free to head down to Charleston and have a Freedom Drink.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Someone should dunk his orange ass in that water. Just to see what color he comes out. nt

[infoviro]

4. Fuck that little fucking Oompa Loompa piece of shit

[theHandpuppet]

7. And to think...

... I read in the Cincy Enquirer yesterday that Boehner will have a challenger in the GOP primary because there are apparently a bunch of GOP nutters in Ohio who think Boehner isn't conservative enough!

[Bobcat]

8. Stockman

The same thing is happening to Steve Stockman (R) here in Texas. Anti- Stockman TV ads sponsored by a conservative group are running in the Houston area. He is referred to as "just another Washington insider". WTF?

[packman]

5. Yah, we have enough regulations

I agree with him. WE JUST DON'T have the regulators which you ass-holes won't fund and let them do their jobs. For Budda's sake, how can anyone support this type of idiotic shit vomiting out of his mouth?

[madrchsod]

6. i wonder if he`ll drink the water?

well, if ya put in enough alcohol maybe he would.

[PoliticalPothead]

9. Hey Boehner, if you really care about jobs...

why don't you tell your Republican buddies to stop trying to defund the EPA so they can HIRE SOME FUCKING REGULATORS!

[Brigid]

10. Go to Charleston and say that, Bonehead.

I dare you.

[WilliamPitt]

11. No inspection of the spill site since 1991.

Fuck you, you weepy orange bag of fuck.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. It's now President Obama's job to inspect coal processing companies? Where's

that in the Constitution?

[oldandhappy]

13. We have regulations and knowledge, we have now ETHICS!!!

No ethics in this company which polluted the water and no ethics in the House of not representing me.

[FlyByNight]

14. Bo(eh)ner's nothing but a talking-point robot

I'm sure he's got all of the goddamn drinking water he needs - and alcohol too, for that matter.

What a sociopathic asshole.

[JoePhilly]

15. Defuend the EPA, then blame the EPA.

[badtoworse]

16. He raises a valid question

Was the West Virginia spill the result of a lack of regulations or the failure to administer existing regulations? Those are two very different issues with each requiring a different response.

[phantom power]

17. very efficient, they're recycling their NRA bullshit and reusing it for environmental bullshit

[Gothmog]

18. Translation-that polluter just contributed to my campaign

The RNC can be counted on to protect the interests of polluters