This is what plutocrat flop sweat looks like:
The network of groups affiliated with billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch will spend more than $400 million on conservative causes and candidates in the 2018 midterm election cycle.
Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips said Saturday that the investment would be the network’s largest election cycle investment ever — 60 percent greater than the 2016 presidential cycle — as Republicans seek to protect majorities in the House and Senate against stiff political headwinds.Of course, these are the same ultra- reactionaries that astroturfed the "Tea Party" movement back when America elected its first blah president.
While Democrats are frequently outspent in campaigns, this infusion of billionaire bucks in a midterm election is beyond the pale, and demonstrates how desperate Republicans are to hold on to their Trump- cosseting majorities in Congress. That infusion, and many millions more to come in right- wing contributions, is likely to flood us with lies, distortions and misdirections between now and November -- with little or no correction by most of our quivering media.
Fortunately, we don't have to spend half a billion dollars to win an election cycle when we have the best motivators ever: Putin's plutocratic pal Donald "Rump" Trump and his party- before- country, coin- operated pack of jackals in Congress.
(Image: Visual approximation of Charles and David Koch, courtesy of Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche.)
