Obamacare fight gets too hot for Kochs: We’re not backing GOP’s shutdown tactics

[kpete]

Obamacare fight gets too hot for Kochs: We’re not backing GOP’s shutdown tactics

By David Edwards
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 16:01 EDT


NBC’s Michael Isikoff reported that Koch Industries, which is privately owned by the activist brothers, sent a letter to members of Congress, insisting that “Koch has not taken a position on the legislative tactic of tying the continuing resolution to defunding Obamacare nor have we lobbied on legislative provisions defunding Obamacare.”

Phillip Ellender, the company’s president of Government and Public Affairs, instead declared that the company had put its emphasis on “reducing our nation’s debt and controlling runaway government spending” with the hopes of never needing to raise the debt ceiling again in the future.

“Congress should focus on these efforts: balancing the budget, tightening and cutting government spending, curbing cronyism, and eliminating market-distorting subsidies and mandates,” Ellender wrote.

The letter was prompted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) charge on the Senate floor on Tuesday that the Koch brothers “have been raising and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get us to where we are right now.”


LETTER HERE:


http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today_Stories_Teases/Letter-to-Capitol-Hill-100913.pdf
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/09/20886586-kochs-to-congress-focus-on-spending-not-obamacare
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/09/obamacare-fight-gets-too-hot-for-kochs-were-not-backing-gops-shutdown-tactics/

[warrior1]

1. Liars

[HooptieWagon]

2. Like arsonists....

"We just poured gas on the campfire....we didn't have anything to do with the forest fire."

[immoderate]

3. Notice that Koch Industries is NOT the same thing as the Koch Brothers.

--imm

[mercymechap]

4. And, have they told Boehner

this? Probably not, or he's lying. Either way, they're not to be trusted and probably responsible for the direction the GOP has taken.

[notadmblnd]

5. Not liking their names in the news, huh?

they like to lay low and do their dirty work undetected so when their names pop up in the MSM as those that financed the groups that plotted long ago to shutdown the government, they've decided to try and play the CYA game.

Dirty, filthy Koch suckers is what they are.

BTW, doesn't plotting with the RW politicians and other conservative groups to destroy the US economy and thereby endangering national security constitute conspiracy?