House Speaker John Boehner can put his plans for a select committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi on hold. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has gotten to the bottom of the scandal:
It's the Koch brothers' fault.
Yes, the Nevada Democrat's obsession with billionaires Charles and David Koch extends to blaming them for the Republican-controlled House's desire to get to the bottom of why the Obama administration blamed a terrorist attack on an obscure anti-Islam video (to protect President Obama politically, according to emails newly obtained by Judicial Watch in a lawsuit).
Here's Reid's statement on Boehner's announcement Friday:
"Republicans are showing yet again that they have nothing to offer the middle class. Republicans care more about defending billionaires like the Koch brothers and trying to rekindle debunked right-wing conspiracy theories than raising the minimum wage or ensuring women receive equal pay for equal work."
Those crafty Koch brothers — is there anything they can't do?
We groan at the obvious appeal to emotion and prejudice here...
but the SADDEST part is that in our newly divided and dumbed-down America this demagoguing will ring true.
The Dems make these horrid caricatures of people and then run against their fabrications. They did it with Newt. They did it with W. They've tried with Ted Cruz. Now they're going to run against the Koch brothers.
This fraud Reid has been droning on about the Koch brothers for months now. It he didn't think it'd work, he wouldn't do it. And in an election year like this, where polls show the public blames the Dems squarely for their destruction of healthcare and a prolonged record of lying divisive self-serving cronyisms, this is the best they can do.
It isn't right but because it works, they'll continue to do so in a ruthless fashion. The Pubbies better face this fact square-on and mount their counter offense strong and fast to take down this association with a caricature of two people who are not even in office! to limit its effectiveness.
Remember how Romney wryly smiled when Obama said to his face that the 80's are calling and want their foreign policy back? That kind of defense isn't going to cut it. We need some fire or its all over once again.
******************* "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." Abraham Lincoln
"Either the Republican party will reform itself or its going the way of the wind." Pat Caddell at CPAC