Pelosi to Boehner: Let’s vote on cutting oil subsidies!

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Sahil Kapur

WASHINGTON – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) pressed Speaker John Boehner to call for a vote on stripping tax breaks for oil companies, after the Ohio Republican signaled openness to the idea.

"House Democrats have long advocated eliminating outdated and costly taxpayer subsidies that provide billions of dollars to highly profitable oil companies," Pelosi wrote in a letter to the Speaker sent Tuesday night. "I am writing to request that you schedule a vote on ending these tax breaks on the House floor upon our return to Washington next week."

She added that "we have had several votes on this subject in the House, and have been disappointed that these proposals have not been supported by the Republican leadership."

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/27/pelosi-to-boehner-lets-vote-on-cutting-oil-subsidies/

[librechik]

1. go Nancy, nail them again while the iron is hot!

Let them show their shameful bowing to these corporate titans in the open, where all can see.

[sharp_stick]

2. My guess

is that it will be a cold day in hell before boner allows that vote. I don't think I've seen anyone walk back a stated position any faster than the orange one after this screw up.

His bosses at Halliburton must have been toasting his nuts over a fire for hours just to get even with him.

[DCKit]

3. +1 He should'a kept his mouth shut.

I'm sure the reporter got the same treatment for asking the question.

Now it's out there, and Big Oil will have to spend many dollars defending their tax breaks, credits, subsidies and low cost of leases on public lands.

[Uben]

4. Yeah but what's $10 or $20 million in bribes when you are......

....receiving billions in free money?

I need a gig like that? Any ideas?

[JohnnyRingo]

5. Time for Bohner to go on a golf junket

I love Nancy Pelosi. She really knows how to wield a blowtorch.