Harry Reid has a Koch problem [View all]
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.
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Can someone let harry know it's pronounced COCK brothers.
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