Harry Reid has a Koch problem

[Jesus Malverde]

The time has come to stop the denial and to admit that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a Koch problem.

More than 100 times on the Senate floor in the past few months, the Senate’s top Democrat has invoked Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into conservative causes and campaigns.

After a brief respite during the Easter recess (during which time Reid turned his ire to the “domestic terrorists” who supported Cliven Bundy in Reid’s home state of Nevada) the senator has relapsed into a full-blown Koch habit.

Opening a minimum wage debate Wednesday, he said that if “Americans are searching for an answer” to why Republicans “would refuse to raise the minimum wage, they should look no further than Republicans’ billionaire benefactors — I repeat, billionaire benefactors — the Koch brothers.”

After Republicans blocked a minimum wage increase with a filibuster, Reid went to the Senate TV gallery and complained that “Republicans are defending .?.?. the Koch brothers, while they come to the floor and oppose raising the minimum wage.”

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The focus on the Koch brothers lets many more oligarchs off the hook. People like Sheldon Adelson, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Jaimie Diamon, Lloyd Blankfein, DB Bloomberg and many others are getting a pass.

Here's a 134 mentions...

Can someone let harry know it's pronounced COCK brothers.

[randys1]

1. Sure, he could list them all, but maybe if he said Koch etal

Koch bros and some of the others you list are trying to kill the American middle class, and that is not an exaggeration at all, wish it was.

A very healthy and large middle class requires some redistribution of the wealth the rich have stolen, this is not going to happen here in our lifetimes, maybe the confrontation that will make it happen will happen, not sure.

This article should have been one sentence, "Harry, when mentioning the american haters Koch Bros, could you also mention a few of the other american haters that help them in their american hating"

the end...

[Jesus Malverde]

2. Agreed, I just see them mentioned here much more than the other titans of finance and industry.

The problem is not a couple of brothers, the problem is the system they and other like them rule.

[pscot]

3. Synecdoche

A trope in which a part of something is used to represent the entire whole or class of things.

[Jesus Malverde]

5. Not often I see a new word around here. I think it's spot on.

I think maybe Harry should use the more appropriate term Oligarch.

[11 Bravo]

4. AMERICA has a Koch problem. Harry is just pointing it out.

[Jesus Malverde]

6. seeing the trees and missing the forest perhaps?

[The Magistrate]

7. Propaganda Needs A Single Point Of Focus, Sir

Leader Reid is doing it just right....

"By one enemy, many can be meant."

[Jesus Malverde]

8. Destroying them, only leaves the system they work within intact.

The void we create will be filled by the next rapacious crew. We should focus on the system, so there is no void to fill.

[hfojvt]

9. uhm, it is MY name too

and it is pronounced "cook".

"Harry Reid has a cook problem."

The article makes no sense. Does he need some help from Rachel Ray or something?

"a full blown cook habit".

What's wrong with a man doing a bunch of cooking?

And Jamie Dimon? His net worth is a mere $400 million. He's not even in the Forbes 400.

I wish Reid and others would say Koch "billionaires" to distinguish Chuck and Dave from people like my brother and I. My brother and I are Koch brothers (although NOT Coke brothers, we are cook brothers). We are not, unfortunately, Koch billionaires.

[Jesus Malverde]

10. Lulz no offense intended.

[hfojvt]

11. I wish my fake uncles

would change their name to Coke.

But I was using them as examples of the beneficiaries of Republican policies before most people (outside of Kansas) had heard of them.

I like seeing them get attention.

But why not Koch billionaires instead of Koch brothers?

My brother and I = Koch brothers
my dad and my uncles = Koch brothers
my male cousins on dad's side = Koch brothers (one of them is even named David, and I first discovered the billionaire by doing a search for my cousin)
my grandfather and his brother = Koch brothers (albeit both deceased since 1980)

But NONE of the above are Koch "billionaires".