Top Koch Network officials vent frustration with White House, GOP-led Congress

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 07/28/18 06:12 PM EDT

COLORADO SPRINGS -- Senior officials from the group of networks affiliated with billionaire conservative businessman Charles Koch are expressing deep frustration with President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress, even as they spend heavily to elect Republicans and promote conservative causes ahead of the midterm elections.

From trade to immigration and spending, top Koch Network strategists, who briefed reporters at a five-star resort in Colorado Springs for the group’s biannual seminar, outlined the areas from which they believe the Trump administration and GOP Congress have gone astray. They’re also frustrated by what they view as the “divisiveness” of the Trump administration — something officials say is complicating lawmakers' ability to find areas of compromise.

“The divisiveness of this White House is causing long-term damage,” said Brian Hooks, president of The Charles Koch Foundation. “When in order to win on an issue, someone else has to lose, it makes it very difficult to unite and solve the problems of this country.”

“When we say there’s a lack of leadership … I’d include the White House and a number of politicians who are following that lead,” Hooks continued. “There’s a need for someone to step up and show people it’s possible to achieve things when you unite people together … rather than divide them.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/399364-top-koch-network-officials-vent-frustration-with-white-house-gop-led

[dhill926]

1. I hope they eat each other alive....

fuck every last goddamn one of them....

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[onecaliberal]

23. So much that.

[donkeypoofed]

2. It's his own frickin' fault

Too much money and not enough brains to know Spanky's an asshole.

[Downtown Hound]

4. Yeah, welcome to the club, Koch assholes. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. You bought him by voter suppression, dark money, dumbing down the electorate, and more. . . . nt

[EndGOPPropaganda]

13. Yes. They built the bus and Trump hijacked it

Surprise, hate mongers. You reap what you sow.

[stuffmatters]

31. 1000% The Koch Bros are 1 SCOTUS judge away from achieving their decades long Birchistan mission

Gorsuch was theirs (just like his mother was), now they're spending tens of millions of dollars on their Kavanaugh campaign. If these evil old farts actually gave a shit about Trump damaging America, they would be financing a judge who might make SCOTUS the one arm of the govt that could control Trump.

The Koch Bros want to own corrupt and pollute everything but still want to go to the Met Gala and be welcomed in "polite" society.
Hence the Koch Kabuki on Trump.

[Raven]

5. They have to be really nervous to say a thing like that! n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I love seeing our adversaries fighting each other instead of us!

[karin_sj]

7. Idiots

They're a big part of why this happened in the first place, and they have the nerve to complain about it. Brother.

[madamesilverspurs]

8. In other words,

a group of notoriously selfish people arrange to have one of their own put into the highest seat, and then they are shocked when he isn't un-selfish with them. Well, duh.


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[Wellstone ruled]

9. Until we here that the Koch Brothers have

canceled their Mar-A-Largo Memberships,then and only then will I believe any of these statements coming from the Hill .

[kysrsoze]

11. Yet they've already pledged bucketloads to the Republican Nazi Party in the mid-terms.

Fuck them.

[47of74]

12. Fuck them all.

They made this bed now it's time for them to fucking well lie in the goddamn thing. No sympathy from me.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. OMG, it's a Repug national emergency...

the Koch gang is having a bad hair day and buyer's remorse......

...... ........ ....... ........ .......

[They_Live]

15. Ooops! too many overfunded

sociopaths. I too hope that they destroy themselves.

[DBoon]

16. The Koch's libertarian politics would get at most 5% support

That is the percent of the population that might be better off under their system.

What the trumpsters understand is that for reactionary politics to get any mass support, it must be based on nationalism, racism, and authoritarianism

[BumRushDaShow]

17. THEY created and funded the astroturf teabaggers

so they OWN them.

[beachbum bob]

18. Lol...karma

As they see their power ebb away.

[Raster]

19. Give me a fucking break...

...the Koch-suckers complaining about the tRump GOP is like the arsonist complaining about the fire.

[hatrack]

20. Hey, Brian Hooks! Hey, Koch Brothers!

Too bad, so sad, FUCK YOU.

[Golden Raisin]

21. A plague on both their houses.

Koch's funded and laid down with Trump and Complicit Republicans and now they don't like the fleas and mange.

[elleng]

22. "The divisiveness of this White House is causing long-term damage,"

No sh*t, sherlock.

[Midnight Writer]

28. "Divisiveness of this White House"? Who gerrymandered the districts to the point that compromise is

political poison? Who built up this Right Wing Hate Machine so that compromise is political poison? Who spent billions of dollars demonizing the heretics?

Dumbasses that have too many dollars and not enough sense.

[Aristus]

24. Buyer's remorse...

[SergeStorms]

25. How much money did the Kochs....

receive from their windfall tax cuts? They're spending a small percentage of that windfall electing GOP fascist lawbreakers.

Shut the hell up, you parasites!

[dflprincess]

26. The "grassroots" Tea Party was funded by the Kochs and other big money interests

now it has come back to bite them in the ass. If we weren't all paying the price for this, I'd laugh.

http://time.com/secret-origins-of-the-tea-party/

[Turbineguy]

27. They should be delighted.

They wanted to destroy the US government. Sure, it's a work in progress, but these things take time. You have to be patient.

[SamKnause]

29. Fuck off and die top Koch network officials !!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck off and die Koch brothers !!!!!!!!!!!!

[pazzyanne]

30. Hooks continued. "There's a need for someone to step up and show people it's possible

to achieve things when you unite people together … rather than divide them.”


Someone tried! Remember "Stronger Together"?

[Nitram]

32. Yeah, fuck the Kochs. Backed the wrong horse's ass.

[riversedge]

33. Past time.