Harry Reid continues showdown with Kochs
By: Burgess Everett, Politico.com
March 4, 2014 04:23 PM EST
Harry Reid is leading a concerted election-year strategy by Democrats to demonize the Koch brothers, starting on the Senate floor.
The Senate majority leader again lit into Charles and David Koch on Tuesday, showing little regard for GOP criticisms of his previous attacks on the billionaire brothers. Reid refused to back away from his previous assessment that the brothers are “un-American,” deeming their philosophy one “that benefits billionaires at the expense of the middle class.”
“The oil baron Koch brothers are very good at protecting and growing their prodigious future and fortune. There’s nothing un-American about that. But what is un-American is when shadowy billionaires pour unlimited money into our democracy to rig the system to benefit themselves and the wealthiest one percent,” Reid said.
Reid is no stranger to using the Senate floor to attack his political opponents — see his fixation with Mitt Romney’s tax returns — and his Koch rhetoric serves to spearhead a party-wide strategy aimed at highlighting the political influence of the brothers and the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee repeatedly warns in fundraising solicitations that the Kochs’ influence could tip the balance of the Senate as AFP pours millions into battleground states to pound Democrats.
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March 4, 2014 04:23 PM EST
Harry Reid is leading a concerted election-year strategy by Democrats to demonize the Koch brothers, starting on the Senate floor.
The Senate majority leader again lit into Charles and David Koch on Tuesday, showing little regard for GOP criticisms of his previous attacks on the billionaire brothers. Reid refused to back away from his previous assessment that the brothers are “un-American,” deeming their philosophy one “that benefits billionaires at the expense of the middle class.”
“The oil baron Koch brothers are very good at protecting and growing their prodigious future and fortune. There’s nothing un-American about that. But what is un-American is when shadowy billionaires pour unlimited money into our democracy to rig the system to benefit themselves and the wealthiest one percent,” Reid said.
Reid is no stranger to using the Senate floor to attack his political opponents — see his fixation with Mitt Romney’s tax returns — and his Koch rhetoric serves to spearhead a party-wide strategy aimed at highlighting the political influence of the brothers and the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee repeatedly warns in fundraising solicitations that the Kochs’ influence could tip the balance of the Senate as AFP pours millions into battleground states to pound Democrats.
(More here.)
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2 Comments:
Poor Harry. How did he get to be so wealthy while being a poor ole public servant all his life?
the left is so obtuse, they think that billionaires pouring unlimited amounts of money in to the system makes them wealthier.
Nothing could be further from the truth. No one spends their fortune in order to rig the system so they can make a fortune.
Great talking point that will ring well with the Moron Class in America, though.
But, you know things are probably not looking good with Democratic internal polling if they have to trot the Koch Brothers out there. We'll probably be seeing an opinion soon from Tom Maertens in the Free Press along the same lines to help deflect from the growing scandals and the fallout from ObamaCare.
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