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Senate Democrats aim ire at rich, obscure brothers (Koch bros.)
Associated Press ^ | Mar 10, 2014 2:12 PM EDT | Charles Babington

Posted on 03/10/2014 11:18:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Democratic Senate candidates, facing withering criticism on the national health care law, are gambling they can turn voters against two billionaire brothers funding the attacks—even if few Americans would recognize the pair on the street.

In an accelerating counteroffensive stretching from the Senate chamber to Alaska, Democrats are denouncing Charles and David Koch, the key figures behind millions of dollars in conservative TV ads hammering Democratic candidates and their ties to President Barack Obama.

Democrats depict the Kansas-based Koch (pronounced “Coke”) brothers as self-serving oil barons who pay huge sums to try to “buy” elections and advance their agenda of low taxes and less regulation. And they’re using unusually harsh language in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Koch-financed ads against Democrats and the health care law contain lies “made up from whole cloth.” …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: alinsky; americans4prosperity; democrats; demonization; harryreid; kochbrothers; liberalagenda; obamacare; zerocare
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AP covering moonbattery.
1 posted on 03/10/2014 11:18:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The Koch brothers hide under the beds of all liberals.


2 posted on 03/10/2014 11:20:24 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Olog-hai

Won’t work.


3 posted on 03/10/2014 11:20:25 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
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To: Olog-hai

Nary a word about Soros and the West Coast-East Coast Rat money machine...


4 posted on 03/10/2014 11:23:16 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Olog-hai

It won’t work, Kock Bros are somewhere around 60th on the list of large donors, way behind the unions.

Abortion, gun control, Dems need to get back to basics.


5 posted on 03/10/2014 11:23:45 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Nope . . . they have to invent an Emmanuel Goldstein bogeyman to distract from hatred of BB.


6 posted on 03/10/2014 11:25:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

This is so inside baseball it’s not even baseball. Most Americans can’t pronounce their name, much less care how they spend their money.


7 posted on 03/10/2014 11:28:12 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Olog-hai

Billionaire Soros good, Billionaires Koch Brothers bad.


8 posted on 03/10/2014 11:29:18 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Olog-hai

The RATS put $$$B Bloomberg in to run NYC.
Somehow they didn’t have a problem with that.


9 posted on 03/10/2014 11:29:18 AM PDT by Zathras
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Yet not a peep about the Unions and Soros who give millions upon millions of dollars to elect Dems


10 posted on 03/10/2014 11:29:54 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: colorado tanker
Americans can’t pronounce their name, much less care how they spend their money.

Good many work for the Koch brothers. Wonder if many even know it? Just one more attack by the left on job creators.

11 posted on 03/10/2014 11:30:29 AM PDT by IamConservative (Damn that groundhog!)
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To: Olog-hai

Why doesn’t B0 Soebarkah just sign the execution order and have them droned?


12 posted on 03/10/2014 11:31:01 AM PDT by Zuse
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To: Timber Rattler

We can’t hope that the MSM will allow a fair presentation of the facts.

Somebody on our side has got to start hammering on Soros and all the billionaire Obama bundlers.

This is like “war on women” it’s not a secret, we gotta fight back or get killed like in 2012.


13 posted on 03/10/2014 11:32:36 AM PDT by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Olog-hai

Do these people even know the Koch brothers are libertarian, staunchly anti war, and donated 20 million dollars to the ACLU in its fight against the patriot Act? Do they even care?


14 posted on 03/10/2014 11:32:54 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Zuse

You trying to give him ideas?

Nah; every Big Brother needs his Emmanuel Goldstein, remember. This is the Senate Moonbat Dems showing off their “two minute hate” . . .


15 posted on 03/10/2014 11:32:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: GSWarrior

Doesn’t matter. Being libertarian and speaking out against Obamacare is enough for the moonbat party to portray them as monsters.


16 posted on 03/10/2014 11:33:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Here are pictures of the evil ones:

Oh wait, that's leftwing money men Tom Steyer (and wife) and George Soros. Nothing to see here - move along.

17 posted on 03/10/2014 11:34:05 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Olog-hai

Real Party of the Rich Guys: Top Dem donors have outspent top GOP donors by $486 mill in last 25 yrs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3124160/posts
Koch Bros come in 59th.
14 of the top 16 are demonrats.
I still have Al Franken telling me we need to “get money out of politics”.


18 posted on 03/10/2014 11:34:07 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Olog-hai

Billionaire Nazi collaborating, socialist Rats, good! Billionaire conservative patriots, BAAAD!


19 posted on 03/10/2014 11:37:05 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Olog-hai

The EVIL KOCH BROTHERS!!

But, if you mention SEIU, George Soros, Open Society, etc., and how much they support Radical Democrats, you are just a CRAZY PERSON!, or Homophobic, and likely a racist, as well.

We lost the war, when we lost control of the language, folks.


20 posted on 03/10/2014 11:39:11 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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