Harry "Show Me The Jewelry!" Reid - fighting for YOU in Washington, and in back alleys, and train yards, and flop house parking lots.
Posted on 04/10/2014 8:09:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This may be one reason why Republicans could woo Joe Manchin to the GOP after the midterms. Would Angus King ever go on Fox to defend Charles and David Koch from Harry Reid’s asinine demagoguery? Doubtful, but the West Virginia Democrat did just that earlier today (video via the Free Beacon):
“People want jobs. You don’t beat up people. I mean, I don’t agree with their politics or philosophically, but, you know, they’re Americans, they’re doing— paying their taxes,” Manchin said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.”
“They’re not breaking the law. They’re providing jobs,” he added. …
“If you’re trying to rally the base, the bases have already been rallied. The right and left bases have been rallied,” Manchin said. “It’s us in the middle that have to start making something happen here in Washington to move this country forward.”
So far, Reid hasn’t taken Manchin’s advice. In fact, the Senate Majority Leader went on the Senate floor to announce that the upper chamber might be able to take its recess later today, and oh by the way did you know Koch money stinks?
Another campaign attack from Reid against Kochs: Koch money "stinks. … The two richest brothers in the world want to be richer."
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 10, 2014
Mitch McConnell offered a jab in return:
While Sen. Reid's speech is focused on attacking two Americans for disagreeing with him, Sen. McConnell's speech will focus on #jobs
— Stew (@StewSays) April 10, 2014
National Journal’s Ron Fournier warns that Senate Democrats will pay a high price for Reid’s “lies” and demagoguery — and so will the media, if they don’t do a better job of pointing those out. “Shame on us” if that happens, says Fournier:
Shame on us if we in the media let him get away with this. First of all, his PAC has its own wealthy billionaires who are donating to him. Second of all, the ad is false, outright false. Representative Cassidy actually fought against the Koch brothers here — that’s not pointed out in the ad. The ad is a lie. Third, this is the third time in a row that Harry Reid’s PAC has had an ad that’s been labeled patently false by the Washington Post. He is making facts up. He is lying. Eventually it’s going to come around and get you. Even in this media environment we have now, I’ve got to believe that Stephen [F. Hayes of theWeekly Standard] is wrong and the Democrats will pay a high price for lying in these Senate ads. They’re lying.
That might be another good reason for Manchin to rethink his affiliation after the midterms.
Koch is his favorite line..
Maybe Manchin, like King will want to caucus with a different party after the Midterms
He’ll continue to get away with it as long as McConnell doesn’t fight back by calling Reid a liar and every time he brings up the Kochs, Mitchy should start naming Reid’s donors. And his granddaughter.
Joe Manchin.....for goodness sake...you know no longer belong in the Obama Democrat Party then I do sitting on the moon dining on Swiss cheese!!! Joe.....change political parties today...and join the Republican Party right now!!!
Odd. Yertle the Turtle has a big problem with a guy who disagrees with him, by the name of Matt Bevin.
Manchin has had plenty of chances to stand with conservatives when it counts and he hasn't. He strikes me as the type of "conservative" Democrat who says all the right things to sound conservative or moderate but then votes with the rest of them.
Why do we want Manchin as a Democrat? Are we short on RINOs? Manchin is a prime example of a politician who’ll tell you what you want to hear. He’s still running scared after his faux pas on gun control. He was excoriated over that by West Virginians. He spent a lot of time and effort to make nice after that screw up. He’s still playing the game. 2016 can’t come fast enough. He’s up then and hopefully voted out.
Then there’s that worthless POS in Washington State, Jim McDermott who calls them the COCK Brothers. By my reading Washington State has some of the stupidest people in both the House and the Senate. No wonder Starbucks got it’s start in Seattle, everyone up there is asleep when they go to vote.
Harry "Show Me The Jewelry!" Reid - fighting for YOU in Washington, and in back alleys, and train yards, and flop house parking lots.
Why isn’t it pc to answer Reid with that he took Koch money also? Why doesn’t someone hammer on that?
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