Senate Democratic Leader Reid Says Conservative Koch Brothers Lack Conscience, Are Un-American
Source: Associated Press
@AP: Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid says conservative Koch brothers lack conscience and are un-American: http://t.co/TkiLJvr8L8
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate's top Democrat criticized a pair of billionaire brothers in unusually harsh terms Wednesday, accusing the conservative duo of being "un-American," spreading lies about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and lacking a conscience.
In a pair of appearances on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., became the latest Democrat this election year to denunciate Charles and David Koch - pronounced "Coke."
The brothers' representatives said Reid's attack was "disgraceful" and accused him of attacking people hurt by the 2010 health care law.
Reid's focus was on television ads that are being used against Democratic congressional candidates, commercials that he said misleadingly criticize the health care law.
"When you make billions of dollars a year you can be as immoral and dishonest as your money will allow you to be," Reid said. "It's too bad that they're trying to buy America, and it's time that the American people spoke out against this terrible dishonesty of these two brothers who are about as un-American as anyone that I can imagine."
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rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Have they fired all their editors?
AngryDem001
(684 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Sure, "denounce" would be slightly shorter, but the synonym, "denunciate", is a word.
carla
(553 posts)AP now is concerned with how we pronounce the names of these traitorous bastards. I have always and will always pronounce Koch as COCK!!! The Brothers COCK. Go Harry, GIVE THEM HELL!!!
Leith
(7,813 posts)I can't imagine that Sharron "Obtuse" Angle would have spoken the truth.
Tippy
(4,610 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Will call his DC office tomorrow and thank him.
Have to thank every Democrat every time they speak out against these demons and their effect on the system.
aquart
(69,014 posts)And you do NOT want to activate their wills. Their money has to be out of their hands BEFORE they die.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)could not be more obvious what they are doing. Just look at how they have destroyed Kansas, for one example, and they are rolling their model out across America. Most Americans have no F'en idea what is going on with these jerks!
ffr
(22,671 posts)My entire family has benefited from the ACA, Obama's, Reid's and Pelosi's signature piece of legislation.
THANK YOU Harry Reid! You rock dude!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Call me, DSSC
toby jo
(1,269 posts)They need busted.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)too much bullshit in this country.
hue
(4,949 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)That's the sadder possibility.
aquart
(69,014 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)on teachers, unions, and recently tax codes.
aquart
(69,014 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)Also, no longer my governor. But he has a tightrope to walk. Wants to look wonderful for a future presidential bid, but can't afford to annoy his money people. Seems to me a wiley negotiator can use that.
The Stranger
(11,297 posts)But at least we're getting somewhere.
Maybe the check shills usually receivesbounced, and he's not happy about it.
daybranch
(1,309 posts)Our system of Government is supposed to be majority rule with protection of the minorities. It is supposed to be a system which does not favor any religion or no religion. It is a system in which each citizens vote is valuable.
Yet republicans continue to work against the constitution, They work very hard to ensure the rights of Afro-American and Hispanic minorities to vote is impeded wherever possible. Republicans pass laws to promote so called Christian beliefs and force others to support their so called faith. But worse of all republicans make your vote almost worthless in choosing your so called representatives by rigging the election by Gerrymandering.
I have been warned I should not say that republicans are corrupt because some of their most looney Michelle Bachman and Ted Cruz believe what they say and are not speaking to further the finances of the very rich. I usually reply when a system is supposed to be one way and you purport to support the constitution and that system but determine not to do so, then you are corrupt' Whether tainted by money payoff or a belief in a duty to work for a theocracy- Christian nation, you are corrupt because you are supposed to be supporting our constitution.
As a former soldier sworn to protect, I would actually go so far as to say that those who work against the very essence of our country and its traditions in this way are traitors to that country. Whether their names are Koch, Bachmann. or Cruz, they are far from just un-American, they are domestic threats to our way of life, our people, and our Constitution. We should stop using such soft phrases inb talking about them but should call them what they are- haters of liberty and democracy.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,076 posts)... that the GOP wouldn't be able to survive a RICO investigation. Just look at what uncle Dick did, lining his pockets and leaving our economy in shambles.
indepat
(20,899 posts)"un-American."
Jake2413
(226 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Truman: "I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell."
Of course, he did say, when learning that FDR wanted him as his running mate, "Tell him to go to hell." But, that was before being a Democrat became a religion, instead of a set of political positions.
Both quotes above3 from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)I agree with Reid. It sickens me that they are spewing untruths about good things that can be happening in this country. They are making every attempt to destroy this country and its citizens. To them, if you don't have money, you're nothing. To them, it's fuck the less fortunate. These guys have no heart, or soul.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)They're allowed to pollute with impunity and they get even richer. No one takes them to court for their cancer-causing industries. Indeed, they own America.
aquart
(69,014 posts)They can't take it with them. If we do not divest them of those billions before they die, their wills will be enforceable. What exactly do you think they plan to fund for the future? Their money will be locked in foundations and essentially untouchable. But which foundations?
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)...who could champion campaign finance reform. That would be handy.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)John Birch Society (The Center for Media and Democracy/Source Watch)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Birch_Society
Death to tyrants.