Environment
John Boehner Says California's Drought Is Obama's Fault. He's Almost Right
We should be pointing fingers at California lawmakers—not the president.
Thank you, John Boehner, for flagging an underrated feature of California’s ongoing water crisis: The government deserves blame.
Well, that’s not exactly what the Republican House Speaker and Ohio Congressman said on Facebook earlier this week. Beneath a photograph of a sign promoting water conservation in Arcadia, California, Boehner (or, at least, Boehner’s social-media minion) railed against what he called “President Obama’s man-made water shortage in the West”: