John Boehner Doesn't Know Policy

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Rachel Maddow has video of John Boehner not knowing policy. The examples Maddow cites are fantastic.

Boehner is against the deep water drilling moratorium but thinks there should be a pause in deep water drilling. Boehner is against a moratorium and supports the six month ban on deep water drilling.

Boehner expressed his disapproval of the moratorium banning drilling closer to the coastlines. Unfortunately for Boehner, the moratorium only affects deep water drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf. Boehner could have found this information by contacting the White House or from the Department of the Interior web site.

The U.S. Department of the Interior today issued a directive to oil and gas lessees and operators on the Outer Continental Shelf notifying them of requirements under the six month deepwater drilling moratorium that Secretary Salazar has ordered.

“The six month moratorium on deepwater drilling will provide time to implement new safety requirements and to allow the Presidential Commission to complete its work,” said Salazar. “Deepwater production from the Gulf of Mexico will continue subject to close oversight and safety requirements, but deepwater drilling operations must safely come to a halt. With the BP oil spill still growing in the Gulf, and investigations and reviews still underway, a six month pause in drilling is needed, appropriate, and prudent.”

I am not surprised Boehner is not a policy wonk. Long after many Republicans were ready to throw Donald Rumsfeld under the bus; Boehner gave this gem of a quote.

"Rumsfeld is the best thing that’s happened to the Pentagon in 25 years."

In a 2006 Hardball interview, Rep. John Boehner told Chris Matthews Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and links to al Qaeda. Boehner's cluelessness is both hysterical and scary.