Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has taken to the floor of the Senate to denounce Republican benefactors Charles and David Koch as "shadowy billionaires" who "rig the system" with massive political contributions.
It's a charge that one pundit terms an act of "hypocrisy."
Reid is "a thug and a bully who takes advantage of the way the U.S. Constitution immunizes him for any damage he may do to the reputations of others," writes Peter Roff, a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report.
"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."
Reid needs Democrats to hold onto the Senate in November if he is to remain majority leader.
"This means Reid needs to find deep-pocketed friends of his own, such as Tom and Jim Steyer, billionaires who stand to lose if the Keystone XL pipeline ever actually gets built."
Tom Steyer made a fortune as a hedge fund manager and advocates for alternative energy sources. He funded the creation of the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy at Stanford University.
Jim Steyer is an author and environmentalist who teaches at Stanford.
The conservative group American Commitment said in a release that the Steyers have pledged "$100 million to liberals if they will promote [Reid's] lockstep anti-American energy agenda."
Roff observes: "It's easy to tell the billionaires backing Harry Reid and other liberals are the bad guys — because 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."
He adds that Reid and other liberals' 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.
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