#NCSEN: The sock puppet grasps for straws

The Daily Haymaker, by Brant Clifton, February 14, 2014

Poor Kay Hagan.  She’s apparently laying awake at night worrying about these Koch Brothers.  Who are they?  What do they have to do with all of this rampant unemployment and cancellation of health insurance policies?  Were they the guys who pulled her hair in grade school?  Were they the guys that laughed at her when she invited them to the Sadie Hawkins Dance?

Nope.  They are libertarian-minded wealthy donors to a lot of free-market oriented causes.  But to hear Kay tell it — and boy does she —  these guys are trying to destroy her and take over the world.  It’s so much easier to talk about two guys you’ve never heard of who can’t even vote in the 2014 US Senate race in North Carolina than to talk about your abysmal voting record that has drifted to the left of even Harry Reid. 

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It turns out the 'Evil' Koch Bros are only the 59th biggest donors in American politics. Can you guess who is number one?

Washington examiner, BY MARK TAPSCOTT | FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Charles and David Koch are the two most evil people in American politics, right? We know that because Jane Mayer proved it with her landmark "Covert Operations" tour de liberal force in 2010.

Well, it turns out that Mayer's aim was off just a little, by like 58 slots on the all-time biggest donors in American politics list, as compiled by OpenSecrets.org.

OpenSecrets.org tallied the top donors in federal elections between 1989 and 2014. Koch Industries -- privately owned by the Evil Koch Bros -- is on the list, to be sure, but doesn't appear until the 59th slot, with $18 million in donations, 90 percent of which went to Republicans.

Unions, unions, unions

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AFL-CIO President Says Beck, Limbaugh ‘Pushed Open the Door to Hate’ After 9/11

THE BLAZE--September 9, 2011

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released a statement Friday commemorating the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 — and promptly turned it into a political opportunity to bash Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove and other conservatives for opening “the door to hate” in the decade since the attacks:


Wealthy CEOs, anti-government extremist front groups and frothing talk show hosts—from the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks to the Koch brothers, Karl Rove’s American Crossroads group, Americans for Prosperity, the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and the American Legislative Exchange Council—also pushed open the door to hate.

Despite the unity Americans first felt in the wake of 9/11, that hate has led to “ill-thought wars,” the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and attacks on immigrants and members of the LGBT community, Trumka said. It is also responsible for a racist conspiracy against President Barack Obama:

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