DOES THE US SENATE LEADER HAVE A SERIOUS DRUG HABIT?



 

…Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NE)

 

The Senate Leader has started copying the Republican’s method of personal “Demonization”.

I was really cracking up last week when the WP columnist Dana Milbank wrote the following about the leader of the US Senate, Nevada’s Democratic Senator, Harry Reid:

 

“Reid went too far when he suggested that the Koch’s’ attempt to “buy America” made them “about as un-American as anyone I can imagine.” That is factually incorrect. The Roberts Supreme Court has made it downright patriotic to buy elections.”

Just as with real life, the reason this statement is so devastatingly funny is that it’s totally true.

I have to say, I am actually very happy that the Senate leader is now being referred to as having a serious, “Koch habit”.  (For those that only read the comic strips, “Koch” is pronounced “Coke”.)

Yes, Harry is starting to make it a habit that every person in America should learn that the billionaire Koch Brothers are in fact attempting to “buy America”.

Just as the GOP has been trying through constant repetition to incorrectly convince the American public that the Benghazi disaster was a White House conspiracy, Harry Reid has now taken the same approach for communicating as are the Republicans.  Reid has made it his personal goal to honestly educate the American public by repeating more than 100 times on the Senate floor, and making it clear that Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers, are spending hundreds of millions of dollars making false statements in conservative ads, causes and political campaigns.

There was a recent interruption in Reid’s “Koch focus”, when he turned his attention to the “domestic terrorists” who supported Cliven Bundy in Reid’s home state of Nevada.  The senator has since returned to his full-blown “Koch habit”.

Here are a few examples of what the Senate leader has offered due to his continuing “Koch habit”:

·       Opening a minimum wage debate Wednesday, Reid 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.”

·       This last month, Reid uttered the Koch name 134 times, and nearly all of those utterances were made since he first tried a Koch line on Feb. 26. These comments include mentions of: “Koch dollars,” “Koch money,” “Koch ads,” “Kochs’ immorality,” “Koch brothers’ radical philosophy,” “Koch brothers’ lies,” “the Koch-Ryan budget” and “I’m not afraid of the Koch brothers.” Reid also described the Koch’s as, “Las Vegas illusionists and power-drunk billionaires.”

·       The Nevada senator has recognized from watching the GOP that in modern politics, it works to demonize the enemy.  As ultra-secretive oil tycoons, the Koch’s come from the bogeyman’s central casting group. GOP’s ultra-conservatives have been doing the same for years and worse.  As an example, the liberal billionaire George Soros, continually endured attacks by Glenn Beck in 2010 that also had anti-Semitic overtones. President Obama, Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Reid himself, among many others, have served as Republican demons.

·       In the recent Senate debate, Reid found a way to blame the Koch’s for the Republicans’ opposition to the minimum-wage increase. “Absolutely no one was surprised yesterday when Americans for Prosperity, which is only one of the Koch-funded political organizations, instructed Republicans in Congress to vote against a minimum-wage increase,” Reid said. “If you vote yes, you’re not going to get the help of Charlie and Dave.”

·       Reid went on to contend that, “the will of the Koch brothers seems to be the top priority for my Republican colleagues” and that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “will need to check with the Koch brothers first before drafting legislation”.

·       After Democrats fell six votes short of breaking the Republican filibuster, Reid told reporters that, “six Republicans have rushed to defend Dave and Charlie, the Koch brothers. . . . If the same number of Republicans voted with us, we would have minimum wage [increases].

I will finish this column with a final comment by columnist Milbank: “David Vitter (R-LA) proclaimed “God bless the Koch brothers” and Ted Cruz (R-TX.) spoke of the “impropriety” of Reid trying to turn “two private citizens” into “characters almost out of Dr. Seuss.” The Louisiana Republican Party filed an ethics complaint against Reid, saying he used his government-funded Web site to attack the brothers.

Well good luck with that. An ethics complaint is weak medicine for someone with an advanced “Koch dependency”.

All I can say is “Hear, Hear, Mr. Milbank and Mr. Senate Leader Reid!!!!”

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