Top Koch Network officials vent frustration with White House, GOP-led Congress
Source: The Hill
BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 07/28/18 06:12 PM EDT
COLORADO SPRINGS -- Senior officials from the group of networks affiliated with billionaire conservative businessman Charles Koch are expressing deep frustration with President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress, even as they spend heavily to elect Republicans and promote conservative causes ahead of the midterm elections.
From trade to immigration and spending, top Koch Network strategists, who briefed reporters at a five-star resort in Colorado Springs for the groups biannual seminar, outlined the areas from which they believe the Trump administration and GOP Congress have gone astray. Theyre also frustrated by what they view as the divisiveness of the Trump administration something officials say is complicating lawmakers' ability to find areas of compromise.
The divisiveness of this White House is causing long-term damage, said Brian Hooks, president of The Charles Koch Foundation. When in order to win on an issue, someone else has to lose, it makes it very difficult to unite and solve the problems of this country.
When we say theres a lack of leadership
Id include the White House and a number of politicians who are following that lead, Hooks continued. Theres a need for someone to step up and show people its possible to achieve things when you unite people together
rather than divide them.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/399364-top-koch-network-officials-vent-frustration-with-white-house-gop-led
dhill926
(16,372 posts)fuck every last goddamn one of them....
onecaliberal
(32,929 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Too much money and not enough brains to know Spanky's an asshole.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Surprise, hate mongers. You reap what you sow.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)Gorsuch was theirs (just like his mother was), now they're spending tens of millions of dollars on their Kavanaugh campaign. If these evil old farts actually gave a shit about Trump damaging America, they would be financing a judge who might make SCOTUS the one arm of the govt that could control Trump.
The Koch Bros want to own corrupt and pollute everything but still want to go to the Met Gala and be welcomed in "polite" society.
Hence the Koch Kabuki on Trump.
Raven
(13,904 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,737 posts)karin_sj
(812 posts)They're a big part of why this happened in the first place, and they have the nerve to complain about it. Brother.
madamesilverspurs
(15,811 posts)a group of notoriously selfish people arrange to have one of their own put into the highest seat, and then they are shocked when he isn't un-selfish with them. Well, duh.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)canceled their Mar-A-Largo Memberships,then and only then will I believe any of these statements coming from the Hill .
kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)Fuck them.
47of74
(18,470 posts)They made this bed now it's time for them to fucking well lie in the goddamn thing. No sympathy from me.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)the Koch gang is having a bad hair day and buyer's remorse......
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They_Live
(3,241 posts)sociopaths. I too hope that they destroy themselves.
DBoon
(22,403 posts)That is the percent of the population that might be better off under their system.
What the trumpsters understand is that for reactionary politics to get any mass support, it must be based on nationalism, racism, and authoritarianism
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)so they OWN them.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)As they see their power ebb away.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...the Koch-suckers complaining about the tRump GOP is like the arsonist complaining about the fire.
hatrack
(59,594 posts)Too bad, so sad, FUCK YOU.
Golden Raisin
(4,614 posts)Koch's funded and laid down with Trump and Complicit Republicans and now they don't like the fleas and mange.
elleng
(131,197 posts)No sh*t, sherlock.
Midnight Writer
(21,819 posts)political poison? Who built up this Right Wing Hate Machine so that compromise is political poison? Who spent billions of dollars demonizing the heretics?
Dumbasses that have too many dollars and not enough sense.
Aristus
(66,478 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)receive from their windfall tax cuts? They're spending a small percentage of that windfall electing GOP fascist lawbreakers.
Shut the hell up, you parasites!
dflprincess
(28,086 posts)now it has come back to bite them in the ass. If we weren't all paying the price for this, I'd laugh.
http://time.com/secret-origins-of-the-tea-party/
Turbineguy
(37,374 posts)They wanted to destroy the US government. Sure, it's a work in progress, but these things take time. You have to be patient.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Fuck off and die Koch brothers !!!!!!!!!!!!
pazzyanne
(6,559 posts)to achieve things when you unite people together
rather than divide them.
Someone tried! Remember "Stronger Together"?