THE KOCH BROTHER’S HAVE A WHOLE NEW SCHEME FOR DUPING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC

…These two brothers are a real piece of work!

 

Fool me once, shame on you....Fool me twice, shame on me!

 

I have been wondering when Charles and David Koch’s name would start showing up for the up-coming 2016 elections.

 

Well, finally POLITICO’s Ken Vogel has come up with the story of what the Koch brothers are up to, and their idea is a real scream.

 

Someone in the Republican party started actually listening to the American public and they have come up with the idea of what they need to do to win in 2016, and why Mitt Romney lost in 2012.

 

According the their research, Romney was favored by the American public as the better economic technocrat, better on national economics and on national defense.  In the end however, Romney lost and Obama clobbered Romney 81% to 18%.  It’s been decided that the 2012 loss was based on which candidate cared most about the American public. It spoke to the larger, long-time problem with the Republicans and the conservative movement, and Romney totally embodied that problem.

 

Yep, that’s what they are saying about the 2012 loss.

 

No, they said, it’s not based on the GOP autopsy from the 2008 election where it was decided that the nation’s changing demographics required that the Republicans needed more minority members.  No siree, it was instead decided that the problem was what they called the “empathy gap”.  That’s what they now say plagued the GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. The voters were seeking a candidate like Obama who “cares about the American public”.  The 47% comment from Romney at the private fund raising event just sealed the deal against Romney in 2012.

 

Apparently, this is exactly what the Koch’s believe.  And they are now financing everything from turkey giveaways, general education training and English-language instruction for Hispanic immigrants.  They are also offering community holiday meals and healthy living classes for predominantly African American groups. 

 

In addition, the Koch’s are offering vocational training and special education classes for the under-employed.

 

Their strategy, according to documents reviewed by POLITICO, calls for the Koch’s to present a “more compassionate side of the brothers’ politics to new audiences, while they fight the perception that they are merely fronts for rich Republicans seeking to game the political process for personal gain”.

 

As one Koch network official put it: “We want people to know that they can earn their own success. They don’t need the government to give it to them.” This is all in line with their ideological idea behind their program to win over Latinos.

 

But this new campaign is about more than just winning over Latinos. The effort to “present a more compassionate side” of the Koch brothers’ politics, POLITICO reports, is rooted in a theory of what went wrong in the 2012 election, as well as what to do about it:

 

So, apparently the idea for the Koch’s and the GOP is that you don’t have to actually believe in what you are attempting to do.  All you have to do is go through all the actions for fooling the public into believing that you mean what you say.  Once you get them over to your side, you can then go forward in doing what you would normally be doing.

 

As one official put it: “Romney won on leadership. He won on the economy. He won on experience. What did he lose on? He lost on care and intent.”  So I guess, all they have to do is convince all Americans that however Mitt Romney was judged by the public in 2012, he and the GOP really aren’t that way at all….honest injun.

 

The reality of the Koch brothers is that deep down, they are against any idea that takes money from the rich and redistributes it to those in need.  No matter how much they try to sugar coat it, they can never get away from their basic, fundamental beliefs.

 

There’s the old saying: “You can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy.”  But for the GOP and the Koch brothers, the saying is a bit different.   For them it’s ““You can take the conservatives out of the scheme, but you can’t take the scheming out of the conservatives.” 

 

Today, Charles Koch says out-loud that: “Government anti-poverty and regulatory policies are shackles preventing all Americans, especially the disadvantaged, from pursuing their dreams.”  It’s the old Republican idea that, “Americans should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.”  But as usual, the conservatives forget that first, those Americans need to have a pair of boots.

 

We know that their trying to show benevolence for the poor will eventually come to a halt and the Koch network will throw its clout behind a GOP nominee.  A nominee who supports a tax plan that gives its largest windfalls to the rich.  They will return to wanting to repeal Obamacare’s coverage expansion for many millions and will want to replace it with something that would cover far fewer people. 

 

They will reject any minimum wage hike to keep pace with inflation, and they will pledge to support the Paul Ryan vision which would block-grant the safety net programs for all the states.  This would increase poverty and financial hardship just as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has stated it would, going back to Ryan’s first budget proposal..

 

As a member of POLITICO put it, “Right now, it seems doubtful that slathering the same old economic vision with fat from free turkey giveaways and free English speaking lessons will make it any easier to swallow the same old conservative B.S.!”

 

Look for all this activity to occur between now and November 2016, but probably nothing more from the Koch’s after the November election results are in, especially if they lose.

 

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