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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 01:11 PM Feb 2014

Tweet from Senator Harry Reid about the Koch brothers...

Senator Harry Reid ✔ @SenatorReid

The Koch bros made over $18 billion last year, but middle-class families have watched their incomes stagnate for decades. #RaiseTheWage

1:20 PM - 18 Feb 2014


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Tweet from Senator Harry Reid about the Koch brothers... (Original Post) Playinghardball Feb 2014 OP
How much did they make a year ago, two years...five years. Are their efforts resulting in more ChisolmTrailDem Feb 2014 #1
So Harry Do Something About it! You can do something besides bitch about the Koch Brothers wocaonimabi Feb 2014 #2
+1 Boom Sound 416 Feb 2014 #3
What is Harry supposed to do about it if GOP doesn't play Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #4
OK so Harry does nothing and everyone Bitches and Moans wocaonimabi Feb 2014 #7
For those without a clue--If Reid doesn't have the votes Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #9
Oh my the Senate Majority leader is totaly and competly powerless and all he can do is bitch and wocaonimabi Feb 2014 #11
you have not described any reasonable alternative action Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #12
As Senate Leader he can have multiple PUBLIC Senate investigations wocaonimabi Feb 2014 #13
Please do tell us. Coyotl Feb 2014 #8
Oh No!!! Wellstone ruled Feb 2014 #5
Lazy middle class bastards. Gidney N Cloyd Feb 2014 #6
Wouldn't it be cheaper Jamaal510 Feb 2014 #10
 

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
1. How much did they make a year ago, two years...five years. Are their efforts resulting in more
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 01:12 PM
Feb 2014

enrichment as being in Congress seems to improve the incomes of politicians?

 

wocaonimabi

(187 posts)
2. So Harry Do Something About it! You can do something besides bitch about the Koch Brothers
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 01:48 PM
Feb 2014

Last edited Wed Feb 19, 2014, 07:54 PM - Edit history (1)

the rest of us can't do anything but bitch however YOU can do SOMETHING to fix the problem yet YOU do nothing. Why is that Harry?

 

wocaonimabi

(187 posts)
7. OK so Harry does nothing and everyone Bitches and Moans
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 03:17 PM
Feb 2014

Yeah Team!

We need to expect better and more from those we elect to represent us.

Or you can give Harry a pass for doing nothing but bitching and moaning.

 

Pretzel_Warrior

(8,361 posts)
9. For those without a clue--If Reid doesn't have the votes
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 03:27 PM
Feb 2014

In the house, it doesn't matter WHAT standard you hold him to, you're being a bit unreasonable to say the fault lies with him.

You can try to, but ultimately there's no denying math.

Harry is doing what he SHOULD be doing--publicizing why min wage isn't up for a vote to put pressure on GOP,

Got it?

 

wocaonimabi

(187 posts)
11. Oh my the Senate Majority leader is totaly and competly powerless and all he can do is bitch and
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 03:54 PM
Feb 2014

moan.

Oh those Pubs are such meanies, what will Harry do next, go tell their mommies the Kochs are being mean or something!

Expect less get less.



 

Pretzel_Warrior

(8,361 posts)
12. you have not described any reasonable alternative action
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 06:17 PM
Feb 2014

so with that I can only assume you are trolling us with your "Dem leadership doesn't care" garbage.

 

wocaonimabi

(187 posts)
13. As Senate Leader he can have multiple PUBLIC Senate investigations
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 07:53 PM
Feb 2014

into the antics of the Koch Brothers and all of their companies for starters.

Yet all he does is bitch and moan about a problem that he can solve if he did his job and used the resources at his disposal.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Oh No!!!
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 02:04 PM
Feb 2014

Harry you are getting a spine. You have been reading your mail from back home. Someones big backer is nervous as to the amount of disposable income available to be spent on the Strip.

Sandoval his your threat,and,his money bag is---------Sheldon and the Nazi Chrotch Bros.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
10. Wouldn't it be cheaper
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 03:35 PM
Feb 2014

in the long-run for these billionaires to just agree to pay their extra taxes instead of dumping millions of dollars in a handful of elections and trying to make America suck for everybody? Even if their tax rate was around what it was in the FDR days, they'd still have a few million left over to spend on whatever they wanted to.
When is enough money enough?

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