Dem senator defends Koch brothers

[WhiteTara]

Manchin's pay masters This is from 2014

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/dem-senator-defends-the-koch-bros-105570

Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday strongly defended the Koch brothers from attacks by fellow Democrats, saying the wealthy and politically active businessmen are taxpaying Americans who are creating jobs.

“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.


When asked whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s attacks on the Koch brothers “helps or hurts the cause for the country and the Congress,” the West Virginia senator said it’s people in the middle that need to be reached.

“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.”

[LakeArenal]

1. OMG. He has lost all my respect. He's no Demo

That’s the truth. He’s a highjacking fraud.

[Sympthsical]

2. Well, one of them is dead

And the other one is up there. I can't imagine he's going to be a problem much longer.

Still. If he can look at what those two have done and not see the problem, I'm inclined to think this isn't about any kind of policy with him. It's about his ego and the hagiography of himself he has going on in his own mind.

[CanonRay]

9. They've set up foundations

so their shit work will continue after they are dead.

[RainCaster]

3. From 2014 to today, he hasn't changed

So why has it taken us so long to wake up to his alliegence?

[LakeArenal]

5. Because he was a nobody to me one year ago.

[Botany]

4. "It's us in the middle that have to start making something happen here in Washington ....

.... to move this country forward.”

The Koch Brothers are hardly the middle. ALEC American legislative exchange council* (massive gerrymandering),
Americans for Prosperity/Tea party, Scott Walker Wisconsin, Gov. Synder Michigan (flint water problems),
Ohio John Kasich killing high speed rail, billions of dollars to deny science and climate change, backing Rush
Limbaugh, the Heterodox Academy, and ....


* Jim Jordan's Ohio District

[Auggie]

8. All of Ohio:

I grew up in the north, near Lake Erie. Knew some good folks in Cleveland. But the politics has always sucked.

[roamer65]

12. That yellow one is Marcy Kaptur's district, right?

That’s a real piece of criminal work to throw Toledo and Cleveland into the same district.

[doc03]

6. I figured it was Manchin before even reading it. nt

[jalan48]

7. The masks are coming off.

[overleft]

10. When you stand in the middle of the road, you get side swiped from cars going in both directions!

[TheFarseer]

11. "They're paying their taxes"

They buy the government so that the politicians they buy will lower their taxes to the detriment of everyone else. Wow, what great patriots!

[CousinIT]

13. Kochs are one of the most influential OPPONENTS of S1 For The People Act.

So there you go.

Follow the money.

[applegrove]

14. Manchin is a bubblehead.