Cruz: Reid attacks Kochs as if they were the ‘Grinch’

The Hill ^ | March 13, 2014, 07:22 pm | Ramsey Cox

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Thursday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) negative depiction of the Koch brothers makes them seem like the “Grinch who stole Christmas.”

Reid has increasingly been critical of billionaires David and Charles Koch in the last two months, saying they’re trying to buy U.S. elections by throwing money at Tea Party candidates while hiding behind their political action groups, such as Americans for Prosperity.

“It’s as if they are the Grinch who stole Christmas in his telling,” Cruz said on the Senate floor Thursday refering to the children's book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

Reid’s latest accusation is that the Koch brothers are halting progress on a Senate Ukraine aid package.

Cruz said Reid’s attacks were unfair because the Koch brothers were unable to come to the Senate floor to defend themselves.

“Senate rules allow a member of this body if his or her integrity is impugned to raise object,” Cruz said. “Those two brothers are not members of this body. … They’re denied a personal privilege to defend themselves.”

This is the second time Cruz has referenced a Dr. Seuss book on the Senate floor. Last year, he read “Green Eggs and Ham” to his daughters from the floor while he staged a 21-hour speech.

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[rjsimmon]

saying they’re trying to buy U.S. elections by throwing money at Tea Party candidates...

So when Soros does it, that is perfectly fine?

[DaveA37]

Reid saying they (Koch’s) are trying to buy U.S. elections?

And George S. isn’t (or hasn’t already)?

[jospehm20]

I really despise Whorey Reid.

[jsanders2001]

> saying they’re trying to buy U.S. elections by throwing money at Tea Party candidates...
So when Soros does it, that is perfectly fine?

Exactly. The Left has used every underhanded activist tactic and received hoards of donations from scores of celebrity millionaires and billionaires and Reid gets mad at the Koch brothers? How ironic!

[Din Maker]

“Senate rules allow a member of this body if his or her integrity is impugned to raise object,” Cruz said. “Those two brothers are not members of this body. … They’re denied a personal privilege to defend themselves.”

I hope that they defend themselves buy giving an additional few million more bucks to good, Conservative candidates running for the U.S. Senate against Democrats so Harry loses his Majority Leader position.

[Din Maker]

Hey Harry: If you’re going to pick a fight, you might want to choose another opponent instead of two guys who could buy the West Wing of the White House. But then, you’ve never had much common sense.

[Sooth2222]

If Reid’s 2014 strategy is to attack a couple of rich guys who nobody (except for us political junkies) has even heard of, and who spend bazillions on charitable donations like building hospitals, the Democrat Party really is running on “Empty”. They have nothing.

[joethedrummer]

Ted, don’t waste your breath.

Give Harry Reid TWO words: GEORGE SOROS. Period.

[MrB]

Cruz should state that the Kochs are not even in the top 20 political donors,

and that 90% of the top donors donate to democrats.

Get the plank out of your own eye first, you hypocrite!

(I’m tired of the rats taking advantage of our side’s “civility”)

[olezip]

Reid has increasingly been critical of billionaires David and Charles Koch in the last two months, saying they’re trying to buy U.S. elections by throwing money at Tea Party candidates while hiding behind their political action groups, such as Americans for Prosperity.

The "blame game" is one of the few options in the Democrat play book. But of course we must not ignore name calling.

It would be nice if Reid explained to us exactly how he got re-elected, and how he got rich. Who are Reid's sources of campaign money? Why is Reid not mentioning the many billionaires helping the Democrats? Why is Reid being so unfair? Why is he lying about Obamacare by making liars of people who claim they were hurt by the Affordable Care Act? Why has he not resigned in disgrace?

[GOPJ]

Reid’s a lowlife.