Tag: US Chamber of Commerce

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Backing House Dems

Buck Banks

Two Dozen

“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is poised to endorse nearly two dozen freshmen House Democrats for reelection, triggering a revolt within the right-leaning organization and drawing fierce pushback from the group’s powerful GOP donors,” Politico reports. “The decision represents a sharp departure for the traditionally conservative Chamber, which has spent over $100 million backing Republican candidates over the past decade, and it threatens to further complicate the party’s prospects in the November election while driving a split in the business community.”

GOP House Speaker-in-Waiting Boehner Suggests Taxpayer Bail Out for Gulf Clean Up

Jon Ponder

Speaker-To-Be Boehner
Speaker-To-Be Boehner
If Republicans win back Congress this November, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is in line to replace Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as speaker. At his weekly press conference this week, Boehner was asked who should pay for cleaning up the Gulf oil spill:

“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…

Yea, those nasty feds. Greedy, grimy bastards. Let’s stick it to ’em!

Hey, wait a minute. The “federal government?” He means us — the American taxpayers. But wouldn’t that be like a bail out of BP?

Wait ’til the tea baggers hear about this!

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