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warrior1

(12,325 posts)
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 11:04 AM Oct 2013

Koch Company Denies Responsibility For Shutdown

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jacobfischler/koch-company-denies-responsibility-for-shutdown

THIS.MAKES.MY.BLOOD.BOIL.

In a letter to Capitol Hill a representative for Koch Industries rebuked claims by Sen. Harry Reid that the Koch brothers are responsible for a government shutdown. Reid referenced a New York Times article on the Senate floor Tuesday, which in part read, “The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort.”

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Koch Company Denies Responsibility For Shutdown (Original Post) warrior1 Oct 2013 OP
It sounds more like an admission than a denial. Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #1
Bullshit-motherfuckers! gopiscrap Oct 2013 #2
the sky isn't blue. sugar isn't sweet and water isn't wet. fuckwad liars. cali Oct 2013 #3
They're trying to distance themselves from Boehner's mess C_U_L8R Oct 2013 #4
Really? I'm thinking BULLSHIT! nt Buddaman Oct 2013 #5
Fuck the Kochers. City Lights Oct 2013 #6
I KNOW!! Didn't these guys just fund MIT'S lovely new daycare? annabanana Oct 2013 #7
That's a non-denial denial pscot Oct 2013 #8
F phillip and his handlers too madokie Oct 2013 #9
Kicking & Rec...... Segami Oct 2013 #10
They are happy to have the TP crazies doing what they want but they want to distance themselves Thinkingabout Oct 2013 #11
No one is buying your bullshit anymore... dawnie51 Oct 2013 #12
Let me reiterate the posters above me... BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #13
So, they deny and admit it in the same letter lame54 Oct 2013 #14
So, Koch Companies aren't behind it hootinholler Oct 2013 #15

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)
1. It sounds more like an admission than a denial.
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 11:08 AM
Oct 2013

He even reiterates the demands for spending to be reduced below sequester levels.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
3. the sky isn't blue. sugar isn't sweet and water isn't wet. fuckwad liars.
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 11:10 AM
Oct 2013

Koch Bros. gave $500k to Heritage Action

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/koch-brothers-heritage-action-donation-98054.html

let's be clear: the heritage foundation has been instrumental re the shutdown and urging repuke shitstains to not raise the debt ceiling.

Koch Bros. fund slick parodies targeting government spending
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/Koch_operatives_dark_money_group_leading_charge_to_cut_spending.html#59rJicFeGtAExsw7.99

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
4. They're trying to distance themselves from Boehner's mess
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 11:11 AM
Oct 2013

If everything were going happily to their devious plan,
they'd be owning it bigtime.

What this tells me is that the GOP is in shambles.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
7. I KNOW!! Didn't these guys just fund MIT'S lovely new daycare?
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 11:17 AM
Oct 2013

They are just great fellows, dontcha know . . .

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
11. They are happy to have the TP crazies doing what they want but they want to distance themselves
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 12:00 PM
Oct 2013

And just like kids, "I didn't do it" and lying about their role. Yep, they need to fess up.

dawnie51

(959 posts)
12. No one is buying your bullshit anymore...
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 12:09 PM
Oct 2013

more and more the people are hearing your names attached to their misery, seeing your pasty faces attached to their anguish. You are not invisible behind the curtain, and hopefully, soon you will be completely exposed as the evil, amoral bastards that you are.

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)
15. So, Koch Companies aren't behind it
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 01:54 PM
Oct 2013

But he does not deny the Koch Brothers are behind it.

Who is paying the big donations? The Brohters themselves or Koch Companies.

Sad when a company disavows its owners.

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