So, um, in an article describing the Koch brothers’ plan to spend $900 million to buy the 2016 presidential election, the New York Times amazingly writes this:
Roughly 300 wealthy businessmen and philanthropists, many of whom are not traditional Republican givers, belong to a trade organization overseen by Koch advisers, Freedom Partners. The association organizes the conference and helps corral contributions for Koch-backed groups like Americans for Prosperity, a national grass-roots organization, and Concerned Veterans for America, which organizes conservative veterans.
Honestly? Really? $900 million later, and you’re still describing Americans for Prosperity as “grass-roots”…? What the fucking headline says. Also, the dictionary:
1. the common or ordinary people, especially as contrasted with the leadership or elite of a political party, social organization, etc.; the rank and file.
Words have meanings. Or did the Koch brothers manage to buy that as well?
Well, to be honest, the “rank and vile” still wipe their asses with Koch’ Northern Tissue. Talk about bottom feeders.
Well, sure. The word’s been misappropriated. As it has been when used with Steyer’s, Soros’, and Bloomberg’s interests.
Nice try at a false equivalency. Marginal liberas are not in the same league by a couple of factors of magnitude
Soros is in a league of his own with political spending!
Plan to spend… While…
Soros has spent it already. http://www.westernjournalism.c.....iV5Ck8m.97
Meanwhile Tom Steyer,
http://www.nationaljournal.com.....t-20141105
Planned money vs. money spent.
And Soros signed up for Hilary way back in 2013… http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
Good try Goldy!
@5 Soros, Koch, it’s all the same — rich guys buying public policy. This isn’t our government anymore. It’s government of the plutocrats, by the plutocrats, and for the plutocrats. That’s why the 1% has been able to take for themselves every penny of the economy’s gains since 2008 in Washington and a dozen other states. In some states, incomes are going backwards (Scott Walker’s workers’ paradise of Wisconsin among them).
The funny thing is, Puddy, the Democrats have tried to do something about it. But the Party of No is against anything that might help reduce the influence of big money in politics. No, no, no, is not a policy. The only thing Republicans are good at is starting wars and figuring out ingenious new ways to kill people.
And that’s what you shill for, Puddy. Which is why no one on this blog has any respect for you.
@6 From your link: “In 2012, he waited until a month ahead of Election Day before giving $1 million to Priorities USA Action, a super PAC backing President Obama’s reelection bid.”
Wow. And if he does the same thing for Hillary in 2016, Soros will spend 1/900th as much as the Kochs on trying to buy the election. If we had 899 more Soroses, it would be even.
P.S., the reason George Soros is a liberal (and rich) is because he understands finance, markets, currencies, economies, and the fact that Wingnut Whack-O-Nomics sucks. Depressions aren’t good for billionaires, either.
Oh Roger IDIOT Wabbit, these are whom you shill for…
Republicans are leveling the playing field and DUMMOCRETINS like the IDIOT Wabbit are upset…
Awww!
Yeah about Soros and his understanding of finance, markets, currencies, economies…
Yeah a real command IDIOT Wabbit! Sounds like a typical DUMMOCRETIN to me!
Of course the Koch Brothers are trying to level the playing field…https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
@5 & 11
Hmmm…blamed for crashing economies, blamed for tanking currencies…
I think I’ve heard that somewhere in history. I think it was a little guy with a mustache blaming a..what was it…wait…I see a trend developing. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
Something about people who are money grubbing and the shadowy controllers of global banking.
What was it….damn, wish I could remember.
Didn’t France fine Soros $3 Million and Hungary fine him $2 Million?
Didn’t the little man Paul Krugman take him to task http://articles.chicagotribune.....management
Missing from the Trib piece was this following line…
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0393071111
@10 I’m not upset. I’m in control. You’re the hysterical maniac here.
@10 (continued) What you’re overlooking is that union contributions are the collective contributions of many people, not one person exercising outsized influence over politics.
How many members do those unions have? U.S. union membership is about 14.6 million. Divide that into $638 million and you get $43.70 per person. And the Koch millions? Two guys. If they spend $900 million to defeat Hillary in 2016, that’s $450 million per person, or about 10 million times as much, per person, as union workers are spending.
Sux to be a moron like you.
@11 England needed a better currency policy. Traders like Soros make money from market distortions created by governments manipulation of currencies and markets. I thought you wingers were free-market fans? Soros should be one of your heroes. Guys like him keep governments honest.
@12 “Leveling the playing field,” that’s rich! Translated into English this means, “Two guys who are entitled to only two votes are using their money to have more influence over our government and its policies than 50 million people who are entitled to 50 million votes.” Go fuck yourself in the ass if you can reach that far around your skinny butt.
@13 Soros doesn’t crash economies or tank currencies, he merely trades on crashing economies and taking currencies resulting from bad policy choices, but don’t expect Puddy Idiot to understand that.
If you have $900 million to throw away on politics, you are prosperous already. Time to let somebody else have a chance.
Hell guys and gals we should figuring out how to get these two old fools and their rich friends to part with their money. I think tax em, or at least lets get set up to do some films for the Koch’s. They are really going to spend $90 for ten million votes or $900 million for a million. In an election year where the American people in their fickleness is likely to vote for the Republican. Yeah if I go to Vegas I’m putting my money on some Republican cats. So get together come up with a sarcastic idea to take their money and if it works you will pull one over on the Koch’s and just maybe whoever the Democratic candidate is will win. Or maybe Ralph Nadar will run yet again as an independent or green candidate. A tremendous amount of money is going to be spent in this upcoming election from supposedly smart rich people. Hurrah!!!
Won’t they be pissed if the electoral college screws them. They really though they had Wyoming in the bag, and then those folks realized they weren’t spending our money there and taking Wyoming’s for granted.
Their money would be better spent on safety programs in the petroleum industry, preventing oil spills, and making sure he next gusher in the Gulf can be actually shut off in a day or two.
Puddy want to be the front man?
Also the Nightly show will be talking about the Koch brothers and money in politics tomorrow night. Actually tonight on the comedy channel.