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Respond to Beholden to Billionaires Peter Roff April 1, 2014 usnews.com ordinary, run-of-the-mill Americans who now find themselves stuck with health insurance plans they don’t like and with out-of-pocket expenses they cannot afford. can’t remember doing much of it . If that’s really the case he should consider stepping down from his post as Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate or, at the very least, taking a trip to the Mayo Clinic or whatever similar facility his insurance will pay for so that he may undergo a complete physical check that includes a thorough brain scan. It’s important to make sure there isn’t actually something serious going on inside his head. there are some billionaires out there whom he likes very much, as long as they are willing to spend their money to help him hang on to his present position. Some people call this “smart politics,” while others simply see it for what it is: hypocrisy. lose if the Keystone XL pipeline ever actually gets built. Some folks who’ve had enough of Reid’s shenanigans are starting to weigh in, such as American Commitment President Phil Kerpen. His group is sponsoring an Internet-only ad buy – which is the way smart people are starting to do things – attacking the alliance between the Steyers and Reid. The ad uses footage of Reid saying nasty things about conservatives Charles and David Koch, two men whom the Nevada Democrat has alleged more than once have the entire Republican establishment in their hip pocket, but in a way that cleverly hints that such things could just as easily and more appropriately be said about the Democrats and the Steyers who, American Commitment said in a release, have pledged “$100 million to liberals if they will promote his lockstep anti-American energy agenda.”they're the ones trying to impose massive new energy taxes on you, kill the Keystone pipeline, and enrich themselves by directing your tax dollars to their ‘green energy’ schemes,” Kerpen said. the Democrats are engaged in bogus class warfare. Their rhetoric makes them sound like they hate the rich but really they love them – as long as they are writing checks to the right people and the right groups. Reid’s party is no less beholden to special financial interests, big corporations and Wall Street than the Republicans are. In fact, anyone who wants to take a look through the campaign finance reports going back 20 years or so will discover they may be more dependent on them for campaign cash than the GOP. That’s a story that has rarely been told – nor will it be as long as Reid and company are successful in persuading the American media and the voting public to pay no attention to the men and women behind the curtain who are really pulling the strings.
