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babylonsister

(170,964 posts)
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 07:47 PM Jun 2014

Tea party has hurt feelers, files complaint against Harry Reid



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/02/1303870/-Tea-party-has-hurt-feelers-files-complaint-against-Harry-nbsp-Reid?detail=facebook#

Mon Jun 02, 2014 at 12:57 PM PDT
Tea party has hurt feelers, files complaint against Harry Reid

by Joan McCarter



Caricature of the Koch brothers made up as circus clowns.


The people who have absolutely no problem equating President Obama with Hitler have very thin skins when it comes to their own prominent figures.

Tea Party Patriots has filed a complaint against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) with the Senate Ethics Committee to protest his repeated attacks against Charles and David Koch.

Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, filed the complaint, charging Reid with “unlawfully and unethically targeting private citizens.” […]

“It’s been generations since a member of the Senate has abused the power of his office to attack private citizens the way Harry Reid has sought to vilify Charles and David Koch,” Martin said.

She said Reid’s tactics are “nothing more than a continuation of the thuggish intimidation campaign mounted by the Obama administration to target and silence people and organizations Democrats disagree with.”

Have you noticed how effectively Obama and Reid have silenced the Kochs and the $125 million-plus they're spending this year? But the Kochs are apparently delicate flowers, unaccustomed to the harsh words of an adversary. Heaven knows that becoming oil and gas tycoons and amassing a gargantuan fortune didn't prepare them for a politician being mean to them.
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Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
2. They aren't 'private citizens'.
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 07:51 PM
Jun 2014

They attempt to rule from behind the curtain, that makes them very public. Fair game. Go get 'em, Harry!

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
3. I detest both of them
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 07:53 PM
Jun 2014

Charles and David Koch are trust fund babies that decided to be babies their entire life. This is just another example of them wetting their diapers.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
5. If their money has free speech.....
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 08:56 PM
Jun 2014

..... then Reid is "attacking" their money, not them. And their corporations are the persons being "attacked" , not the brothers themselves.

Right?

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
8. UGH
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:03 PM
Jun 2014

talk about taking some ones "freedoms" away. Talk about taking civil liberties away. Them along with the GOPers and those who support them.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
9. Kochs inherited their money. Who was it that said, "Turning $100 into $110 takes work, but turning
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:14 PM
Jun 2014

$100,000,000 into $110,000,000 is easy."?

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Found it.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.
-- Edgar Bronfman
 

Triana

(22,666 posts)
12. Uh-huh. AS IF the millions of dollars the Kochs spend influencing elections....
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:22 PM
Jun 2014

....and buying politicians all over the goddamned country are NOT meant to silence the voices and render null & void the votes of the rest of the American people whom THEY disagree with. HA!

Pretentious hypocrisy is also the Hallmark of Teabaggers.

They screw all of us over buying elections, influence and politicians all over the nation, but when they're called out on it, they WHIIIIINE like little pantywaist ninnies. Pfft.

Go to HELL, Kochroaches!

politicat

(9,808 posts)
13. poor Kochies....
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:22 PM
Jun 2014

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Patience with whiny is approaching zero. Patience with whiny rich slime? Long gone. If they wanna dish it, they better learn to eat it.

Cha

(295,929 posts)
19. Yes, they are delicate little kochroaches whereas President Obama..
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 02:34 AM
Jun 2014


"vilify the kochs".. Hilarious.. all Harry has to do is expose them and they call it vilify. Rofl.

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
20. Okay teabaggers, let's talk about George Soros
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 05:57 AM
Jun 2014

It's strange, but not all THAT strange, that the people who filed this complaint are the SAME people who've created a cottage industry around heaping shit on Mr. Soros.

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