The Thursday Morning Jolt: almost too much to handle. It features the discussion of whether Michigan should be considered a Romney-Santorum tie, what to make of the brokered-convention, unknown-figure-rides-in-to-save-the-GOP theories, and then this outrage that broke last night:
Barack Obama: Join My Fight to Demand the Koch Brothers Tell Us Stuff!
At 9:13 Eastern, Barack Obama โ presumably, one of his staffers โ tweeted, โAdd your name to demand that the Koch brothers make their donors public.โ
The Obama campaign message is: โAmericans for Prosperity, the special-interest front group run by the oil billionaire Koch brothers, is claiming that its donors are โtens of thousandsโ of folks โfrom all walks of life.โ Weโre asking them to prove it by disclosing their donors to the public. Demand the truth by adding your name.โ
Mister President, with all due respect, who the heck (not my first choice of words) are you to demand private citizens engaged in free speech disclose their donors when they are not required to by law? Who made you king?
Thatโs none of your darn business, and the government has no business snooping around in the financial information of those who disagree with its current head of state.
Also, Mr. President, tell the flunky who wrote that petition that you canโt โaskโ and โdemandโ at the same time.
Oh, and the Koch brothers are โoil billionairesโ the way youโre a multimillionaire recording artist. Hereโs the summary from Forbes: โKoch Industries owns a diverse group of companies involved in refining and chemicals; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; minerals and fertilizer; fibers and polymers; commodity and financial trading and services; and forest and consumer products.โ
To summarize, President โIโll Use SuperPACs After Allโ is demanding Americans for Prosperity turn over a list of donors that no law requires.
As Obama said to a House Democrat who didnโt vote the way he wanted, โDonโt think weโre not keeping score, brother.โ






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