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" Charles and David Koch \u2014 America&amp;#039;s favorite political porn merchants and the Mitchell Brothers of the Citizens United era \u2014 are having a week for themselves. Really, it&amp;#039;s like watching a really good episode of that HBO series about the Nevada brothel. First, yesterday, noted &amp;#039;ho Mike (Payola) Allen, one of the founding geniuses of Tiger Beat On The Potomac, went on liberal MSNBC and had a giddy old time with Squint and the Meat Puppet about that silly Harry Reid and all that noise he&amp;#039;s been making about the fact that the Kochs are well on their way to strip-mining American democracy. &amp;quot;It makes them look like Mafia dons,&amp;quot; says Payola, with a grin. &amp;quot;And guilt by association. And Daniel Lipman, who put together this montage, points out you see the same shots of them, over and over again.&amp;quot; This, of course, should strike nobody as odd because, all throughout America, Republican state legislatures are passing the same laws, over and over again, and all of them, curiously enough, always advantage the interests of these two wealthy Birchite thooleramawns. Strange how that works out. Central to the ads that TBOTP helpfully collected for us all was an invitation-only hootenanny held by the Kochs last June to which a veritable All Star team of prospective conservative political porn stars showed up to demonstrate their facility with the money shot, and I do mean money shot. And nobody auditioned for his close-up more enthusiastically than did Mitch McConnell, the Minority Leader of the United States Senate. The Nation got a hold of an audiotape of Mitch&amp;#039;s audition and, boy howdy, this guy has the potential to be the Ron Jeremy of the Koch grindhouse. So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill. And I assure you that in the spending bill, we will be pushing back against this bureaucracy by doing what&amp;#039;s called placing riders in the bill. No money can be spent to do this or to do that. We&amp;#039;re going to go after them on healthcare, on financial services, on the Environmental Protection Agency, across the board (inaudible). All across the federal government, we&amp;#039;re going to go after it...And we&amp;#039;re not going to be debating all these gosh darn proposals. That&amp;#039;s all we do in the Senate is vote on things like raising the minimum wage [sic]\u2014cost the country 500,000 new jobs; extending unemployment\u2014that&amp;#039;s a great message for retirees; uh, the student loan package the other day, that&amp;#039;s just going to make things worse, uh. These people believe in all the wrong things. Dear Democrats: Here&amp;#039;s the thing. A full 74 percent of Americans polled favored raising the minimum wage. Mitch McConnell just spit in their eye to curry favor with two Americans. A full 69 percent of Americans polled favored extending unemployment benefits. But none of them are named Charles Koch or David Koch, so Mitch McConnell believes they don&amp;#039;t count. Mitch McConnell has handed you a nice juicy steak out of which you can make a meal. Please don&amp;#039;t waste time waiting for the sauce. Mitch McConnell has pronounced to himself, and the Republican Senate majority, that he proposes to lead in the next Congress, completely open for business on behalf of two radical conservative yahoos who have maintained their fortune by buying politicians and despoiling the planet. (By the way, screw them and their charity work. Mobsters used to buy stained-glass windows for the church, too.) For the love of god, whatever you do, don&amp;#039;t listen to people like Mike Allen. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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