And they\u2019re just one pair of obscenely rich pricks. Everyone with a few spare million will toss it into somebody\u2019s hat.<\/p>\n
Bernie Sanders is right to be outraged – The Washington Post<\/a> by Dana Milbank<\/p>\n As my colleague Matea Gold reported, the Koch brothers and their fundraising network plan to spend $889 million on the 2016 race. That sort of brazen bid to buy an election <\/strong>should come with naming rights \u2013 perhaps the Charles G. and David H. Koch White House, to match the Charles G. and David H. Koch United States Senate they financed in 2014. A half-dozen of those whose new Senate seats were acquired with Koch money attended a Koch confab in Palm Springs over the weekend to thank their patrons. <\/p>\n But the news elicited no more outrage than did previous acquisitions of the House of Representatives (a.k.a. Citi Field). \u201cThe anger is there,\u201d Sanders says, but \u201cit\u2019s an anger that turns into saying, \u2018Go to hell, I\u2019m not going to participate in your charade. I\u2019m not voting.\u2019 So it\u2019s a weird kind of anger. It\u2019s not people getting out in the streets .?.?. We\u2019re at the stage of demoralization.\u201d \u2026 <\/p>\n No wonder Sanders is so agitated. \u201cYou have to take on the Koch brothers and you have to take on Wall Street and you have to take on the billionaires,\u201d he says, gesticulating madly and fuming about the \u201coligarchy\u201d running government. \u201cNot to get you too nervous,\u201d he says, but \u201cI think you need a political revolution.\u201d <\/p>\n As Sanders is learning, you can\u2019t have a populist revolution without people. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Bernie Sanders is right to be outraged – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And they\u2019re just one pair of obscenely rich pricks. Everyone with a few spare million will toss it into somebody\u2019s hat. Bernie Sanders is right to be outraged – The Washington Post by Dana Milbank As my colleague Matea Gold reported, the Koch brothers and their fundraising network plan to spend $889 million on the … Continue reading Koch Brothers plan to buy the 2016 election<\/span> \n