The Koch Brothers Double Down
Okay, remember when I told you about the Tea party blogger who snuck into the nursing home where Mississippi Republican senator Thad Cochran’s wife was staying with early onset Alzheimer’s? He wanted to take a picture of her to display while claiming that Cochran was messing around with his long time staffer.
Hole cow, that was just the prelude to the vicious attack coming from the Tea Party and the Koch Brothers.
A Mississippi Tea Party leader and another man were also arrested this morning in the Wifegate espionage case.
Mark Mayfield of Ridgeland, an attorney and state and local tea party leader, was arrested Thursday along with Richard Sager, a Laurel elementary school P.E. teacher and high school soccer coach. Police said they also charged John Beachman Mary of Hattiesburg, but he was not taken into custody because of “extensive medical conditions.” All face felony conspiracy charges. Sager also was charged with felony tampering with evidence, and Mary faces two conspiracy counts. The arrest of Mayfield, well-known in political, business and legal circles, caused shock in Mississippi, in a criminal case and election that already had Mississippi in the national spotlight.
Now you’d think that after all this sleazy inhumane rigamarole, they’d lay off Cochran. But, noooo.
The Koch Brothers pile on, running an ad saying that Cochran once said something nice about the President of the United States of Damn America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmYJzNCtT0I
How low can the Tea Party go? It appears that they are at the bottom of the well and still digging.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
Time to swamp the Kochroach politicians with e-mails. There is no limit to low for these pond scum suckers. KKKarl Rove and the KKKoch brothers need to take their acts on the road, preferably to North Korea.
1The Republican Rule of Holes: When you find yourself in a hole, do not stop digging, but break out the power equipment so you can dig faster.
2That’s what money does–lets you dig big holes faster, ’cause you can rent/buy the equipment. And of course, fail to notice the gas or water line until too late.
3And while you’re in that hole, you can say any blasted thing you want, because this is America and you have the RIGHT to lie yourself blue in the face in political ads, and nobody can stop you. Trying to correct the lie just implants the original lie deeper in peoples’ minds, as research has shown.
4That’s not a well. It’s a cesspool.
5“How low can the Tea Party go? It appears that they are at the bottom of the well and still digging.”
Never under estimate the lengths that the T-Party will go…..
After having seen the posters in California…… I don’t think they have a “bottom of the well.”
As @LynnN stated:
It’s a cesspool.
6Truly a huge cesspool.
7As though anyone needed more evidence to prove the “Tea Party” ™ is insane. One would think an attorney would know better but nooooooooooo.
8Hey, relax! It won’t be long before the hit the molten core!
9Time to compose a song here. PKM and da Chipster, you’re ON! Shall it be antiphonal or in unison? Maybe time to have a Grieving Day. Just keep the tissues handy.
10Isn’t there a bottom in the outhouse they live in?
11Marge Wood, the only thing I could come up with for the evil brothers from Kansas were some limericks for which Mama would be chasing me down with an industrial size bar of soap. The only safe line: Things don’t go better with Koch.
12Laughing. PKM, I like that bumper sticker: THINGS DON’T GO BETTER WITH KOCH. When you guys come up with limericks that won’t get you in trouble with Mama, let us know.
13Republican Commandments:
14Thou shalt hate and destroy those with whom you disagree.
Thou shalt not accept scientific fact, ever.
Thou shalt obfuscate, repudiate and generate
fear amongst the 98%.
Thou shalt never admit mistakes, wrongdoing
nor give credit where it is due.
Thou shalt believe in your superiority in all things.
THINGS DON’T GO BETTER WITH KOCH: T shirts, coffee mugs, pencils, notepads, answering machines…..handouts at conventions….
15Another fundraiser for the gift shop: K*ch is a four-letter word.
16James Taylor, You’ve Got A Friend (or fiend)
When you’re down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, nothing is going right
Close your eyes and think of tea
And soon I will be there
To ruin even your darkest night.
You just call for a Koch
And you know where ever we are
We’ll come running to screw you again.
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
You’ve got a fiend.
If the sky above you
Grows dark and full of clouds
And elections just won’t go your way
Keep your head together
And call for Koch out loud
Soon we be poisoning the race for you.
Chorus
When people can be so cold
We’ll hurt you and desert you
And take your soul if you let us
You just call out our names
And you know where ever we are
We’ll come running to screw you again.
Ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a fiend.
This is what you get on such short notice.
17Ralph, you’ve done it again! You’ve won the
18Political Parody Prize.
That was extemporaneous. If you want quality work you have to give me more time. Besides, I’m on the road now in Cumberland MD with ten or twelve thousand of my closest friends studying banjo players in their native habitat. (DelFest…Google it) At events like these, some form of intoxication is mandatory and who am I to buck the system.
19What makes you think the Kochs are doubling down? They may be throwing good money after bad, but they aren’t doubling down, that implies some element of risk. Trying to replace a conservative Republican, with a more conservative Republican, is like switching from Coke to Pepsi, it tastes a little bit different, but it’s still bad for you.
20You’re hired! Now all we need is an editor to put together our magnificent publication/performance/conference. Hey, y’all promised to come see me in Austin. We’ll wait till you get back from Maryland, Ralph. I looked up DelFest. You gonna bring us all souvenirs?
21Kool, we want some banjo strings to accompany your great lyrics, Ralph Wiggins. Give us the chords! Enjoy your fest. Some of the proudest mementos in my office are the banjos my great grandfather played to work his way through college.
Zencliff, great analogy, “Coke to Pepsi.” Should have made my last bumper sticker read: “K*ch is a four-letter word for both fool and tool.”
Here’s to you, Marge Wood, off the bounce given by Zencliff: Koch Juice, a drink of fracking water combined with a heavy dose of oil spill, seasoned by the evil bile of two ugly old white guys.
Hashtag time, Jon Stewart! #Kochjuice concoction.
22Since this is Memorial Day weekend and, thus, the “official” start of Summer, does anybody in the Salon know if either of the Koch brothers has ever served in the military? Inquiring minds want to know.
23BarbinDC, service to the Koch brothers is service to themselves. Trained by their John Bircher Daddy, Fred, military service is a big nyet. Freddie thought Germany, Italy and Japan had the best economic model in his day, WWII.
Fred didn’t care enough to move to one of those countries to put some skin in the game. Trust Fund babies Charles and David, want oil and more oil. They want a monopoly on chemicals and energy, and they want the rest of us to fight the wars for their idiocy. In their empty heads, there’s their privilege and our peon fealty.
Charles and David are poster boys for reinstating the death tax. Enough already with the Hilton and Walton moochers, mooching should end with the Koch family.
This one is for you Marge Wood: Tax the insane corporate idiots out of existence. Make them PAY for their own wars and greed.
The only positive words I expect to read about a Koch is in obituary notice. In terms of evil and lesser evil, the vile Fred Phelps could not rise to the level of these two earth destroying morons. A dead Koch is a better Koch.
24Smiles. I hate to spoil the rhythm going here but the Kochs are also involved in all sorts of financial dealings. Just google Koch and….finance, retail, security, military, water, like, treating polluted water. Don’t spend too long researching them, though; you’ll have to get your antidepressant dosage raised. Do a little at a time to get a full picture. And boycott them. I liked what I read one place: tell store owners you don’t want to buy Koch bros. products. Oh, and find out what universities’ boards they are on and write letters to the chair of the boards. (Kochs both grad. from MIT.) Happy weekend! and eat some quinoa. It is my new favorite food, hot or cold, plain or covered with something else. Yum!
25I should have said google Koch brothers and, because there are other folks in the world with that last name, which must get tiresome at times, but there you go.
26Oh, and they are in favor of resegregating schools and no minimum wage and lots of other fun stuff. Okay I will hush.
27Delfest sounds GReat!
I’ve been working on intoxicants myself. I’d offerred to host blockwalking tomorrow for Battleground TX, but they didn’t get the usual weekly email out asking for volunteers so that fat juicy watermelon I got to slice up for them when they return all hot is going to be for very few people.
Not wanting to waste the watermelon and having plans to go to friends for dinner, I (who hardly ever drink) decided to look up watermelon cocktails on that internet thingie. I’ve now got quantities of watermelon slush, peppermint mashed up with sugar and simple syrup. This will get combined tomorrow night with rum and lime juice and there will be watermelon rum punch.
And I’ll also make corn muffins with corn in ’em and a baked bean and butternut squash dish.
After all the political activity this week, cooking and friends and drinking seem like just the thing. I may even bring some tiny paper umbrellas for the drinks.
28No time for souvenirs, next weekend I’ll be at the John Hartford festival at the Bill Monroe Music Park in Bean Blossom, Indiana.(yeah, it’s a real thing) Then a couple of weeks later the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado. Now I might bring back some souvenirs from Colorado. 😉 Or I might not come back at all.
29Marge Wood, we beg you, never hush. The Koch twits hate it that the spotlight is on their shenanigans.
When it comes to the Koch twits, I could form an alliance with the 2nd amendment nuts. Take out the boys of evil.
Dirty Koch money in politics is as dirty as it is in oil. Those two old crazy nut jobs need to be taken down. If Congress, the Supreme Court and, media won’t do it, it’s up to the internet to educate voters. Key word in The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. is DANGEROUS.
Truth, light and education are the best defense against the Koch assault on our democracy. Thank you Mrs Bankston for giving us this forum to unite and to all of you posting here to distribute the truth,.
30Marion, The greatest dobro player in the world wore a T shirt tonight that said Make Cornbread Not War. But how many people can name three dobro players? (Jerry Douglas)
31Ralph, I believe you’ve succeeded in making some of us jealous, you rascal. Keep up the good work.
32Well, that sent me over to get mesmerized by Jerry Douglas on youtube. I need a shirt like that.
Do you play an instrument?
We’ve got the Old Settlers Festival here in Texas.
33Dang, Marion, why din’t we git invited too? I got some syrup or something made from raspberries about to go bad, cooked up with equal amounts of sugar. That’s okay, maybe I’ll make some cornbread too and look for spare neighbors.
What is a dobro player? What is a dobro? Are we having fun yet? I can play in a bottle band.
Oh, and re: Koch bros, since PKM’s been in the sauce again, they can make huge loans at better rates than banks because they are not regulated in any way at all. They undercut Banke Suisse or however you spell it on some huge deal. Also, banks have gone to doing stuff formerly only done by corporations because banks aren’t regulated like corporations are. And I ain’t even had nuthin to drink yet.
I gotta go to bed so I can be up before dawn cracks tomorrow to go get trained about how to work at the polls since the last time I worked at the polls they didn’t have as many fancy rules and equipment. Last call for trainees for judges to work the elections Tuesday in Travis County! Go git trained tomorrow or Sunday.
Where is da Chipster? Did he retire? Is he off sulking somewhere? or did I just not look in th right places?
34Okay. I have a question. Is a dobro one of those things that looks like a guitar but is rounded on the bottom and used in mariachi bands?
35Rubymay, I didn’t intend to make you jealous. Retirement is fun, but I’m traveling alone and there is room for a lot of improvement in that situation.
So are you ready to leave your spouse/house and go on the bluegrass festival circuit with me? Is that really your retirement dream?
Anybody? Raise your hands.
I didn’t think so.
It’s like the dobro thing. It may sound good but you have to keep it in perspective.
36I found one Men’s T-shirt for $56 in the color maize in a size medium: http://www.billyreid.com/product/make-cornbread-not-war.html
I’m inspired to think about how to get me one that will actually fit me.
37Wait Ralph. Don’t give up so fast. I’ll go. I love bluegrass.
38Marge, you are thinking of a Bajo Sexto. the dobro is just a guitar with a steel face to change the sound and it is played with a slide rather than fingering individual strings. But the right had has to have picks on each finger because you use them all.
No I don’t play, I’m a professional audience member (in training). and yes I attend Old Settler’s regularly.
And where IS daChipster?
39Marge, if they were coming here, I’d just invite y’all on over.
40Okay, I’m turning in. I’ll check back in the a.m.
41Camping? did I mention camping out at the Allegheney County Fairground with 10,000 hippies. That’s not hyperbole.
42You cannot scare me with camping. I’ve done more than my fair share of camping and backpacking. I’ve camped at Old Settlers a couple times. A lot of the fun is listening to everyone playing all night or until there’s terminal droopy eyelids.
43Old settlers has 3 or 4 thousand people on their busiest days. This city goes from zero to 8000 on Thursday then adds 4 to 6 thousand over the weekend.
So anyway, check your calendar for the Targhee Bluegrass Festival (http://www.grandtarghee.com/summer/music-festivals/bluegrass-fest.php)and the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival (http://www.bluegrass.com/folks/)on back-to-back weekends in August. Those are the next ones I will attend that are not sold out. They are both smaller festivals at beautiful venues. Give it some thought.
44I just glanced at the websites and bookmarked them. I’ll take a look at them. I’ve never been to them. Thanks for the links.
45I woke up this morning thinking about the fun party on here last night. Gotta go get ready to go get trained. Banjos. Music. Sweat. Well, two out of three ain’t bad. Y’all have a good day. I’ll check back in later with a virtual T shirt saying MAKE CORNBREAD, NOT WAR. I love it. And the neat thing about virtual whatevers is, you can wear, eat, build, fly them without a budget if you have a good imagination. Plunk plunk!
46Have fun at the training, Marge!
47Y’all are so much fun I can’t stand it! 🙂 thanks for the humor that makes this toothpulling BS bearable and really keeps me hoping that more people will join us and we WILL prevail at the polls!
48On my way to Tyler to Chamblee’s Rose farm (very good stuff!! Beautiful stock!) no music that I know of but lotsa flowers, the Rosevine Inn BnB and a nice picnic lunch before we bring 3 dozen rose bushes home 😉 Anyone know any good restaurants up that way?
I just discovered what passes for a fish taco in Maryland. It’s two fish stick wrapped in a tortilla with shredded carrots and mayonnaise.
Suddenly I missed Texas!
49Well, Ralph, you know where we are, sort of, more or less. Bring your banjo or movies. We can weep and wail while we have a beer.
50Today I was in a coffee shop and met a table full of youngish middle aged guys, sitting there drawing. I’m going to go over to the more recent one for my rant.