Funny thing dbo, With all the railing on the Koch Brothers and blaming them for all of the worlds ills, outside of this blog, they have about as much name recognition as the Everly Brothers. Not sure the diatribes against the Koch Brothers are getting the traction you would have hoped for.

Brive By

Rocco is correct. I worked as an engineer for Bechtel Power and know of Koch by working at Bechtel.

It is surprising that many people do not know who the Bechtel family is, considering they built Hoover Dam, a high % of nuclear power plants (worldwide), mid-east pipelines, airports, even the Saudi city of Jubail, etc. so yeah, even less people know about the Koch's.

drive-by-observer

Are the Koch brothers 'in'? I'll give what they are.....

Of course, more than likely behind the curtains.

Koch Execs Respond To Prank Call: We Will Not 'Back Off'
[snip]
"We will not step back at all. We firmly believe that economic freedom has benefited the overwhelming majority of society, including workers, who earn higher wages when you have open and free markets. When government grows as it has with the Bush and Obama administrations, that is what destroys prosperity."

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/koch_execs_respond_to_prank_call_we_will_not_back_off.php

HaaHaa The real name of "Americans for Prosperity" should be "Billionaires for Control of the Government by the Wealthy."

Big difference- Don and Phil are human beings. (and have musical, tallent, to boot)

So the Everly Brothers are behind the ills of the world? That sweet harmony is a welcome antidote to the sour discord dispensed here. So, screw the other brothers (you to Soros, you hear me?) who seem to be so important to so many here, and crank up "When will I be Loved?" or your fave, and give it a rest...

OR rhe Everly brothers.

OR 'loyal Minions'

Ain't this a bitch??

Beverly, People are suffering and dying in Libya . I watched an interview with Anderson Cooper with a woman was trapped in Tripoli and my heart broke for her. These people need help. But all you can talk about is the Koch brothers.

Bev doesn't have a clue. At least the US Government leased a ferry boat that wasn't big enough. Don't use the Navy that's stationed in Spain or Italy, that would make too much sense. Like the recent crisis, Obama will get a "Do over" and everything will be good.

Liberian patriots????

They're LIBRARIANS, LIBRARIANS! Get your facts straight...:)

dangerfield

Liberian patriots????

They're LIBRARIANS, LIBRARIANS! Get your facts straight...:)

Sorry spellcheck picked it up instead of Libyans. Probably, I didn't notice and had Liberia in the back of my head.

I think the least we could do is set up no-fly zone. This man is crazy. I would be happy to donate $ for food and medicine. My thoughts and prayers are with the people.

Obama is working on defining his policy for the situation, and he'll be sure to have one, right after the crisis has passed. Until that time, he'll pass the time with the following:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/02/25/obama_first_lady_get_their_groove_on_to_motown_hits.html

No Joe and Joanna..

Yes you are both Correct. but his Loyal Minion will be at the Dew Drop in Getting Drunk over all of his Failures this Week. Espceially his Silence on Libia.. Come Monday if he actually comes up with a Plan. They will be telling us all what it is and thats what its been all along...

Here's the new Obama press secretary trying to explain to the press Obama's policy on Libya. The poor guy, Jay Carney, didn't have a chance.

But I bet if you asked him something about MoTown hits, he'd know a lot about that!

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/02/23/press-briefing-press-secretary-jay-carney-2232011

Q Can you articulate a policy that the Obama administration has for the sweeping wave of protests that are breaking out in North African and Middle Eastern countries? Obviously, as has been said by your administration many times, nobody could have predicted that all this was going to happen. But certainly the President and administrations long before this President have been articulating the need for democracy and political reform. Is there a plan in place here?

MR. CARNEY: There is a policy, Jake, and we’ve been very clear about this. And what is important about this policy is that it does apply to every country in the region. First of all, violence against peaceful protesters is unacceptable. The rights, the universal rights of the citizens, the peoples of these countries, must be respected: the right to peaceful assembly, the right to free speech, the right to access to information. And the need for reform is paramount. These are principles that the President has enunciated when he’s talked about every country in the region that’s experienced unrest.

Q Those are certainly the principles that he has consistently articulated, but it’s not really necessarily a policy for what to do in this country, what to do in that country, this country. Egypt has a functioning military; Libya has a complete vacuum, a lack of infrastructure. Is there a policy for not just beliefs that the President holds or America holds, but steps that the country will take, given unrest in various countries?

MR. CARNEY: Well, the principles guide the policy. And you are right to note that each country is different. The President has made that point. Every country is different; every country has a different tradition, different institutions and a different relationship, in some cases, with the United States. But it is important that those overall principles guide our actions.

"Espceially his Silence on Libia"

You must listen to Hanity. This is all he can talk about, but never mentions the fact that Obama HAS to wait unti all the Americans are safely accounted for....

*yawn* indeed.

DBO,

You mean the ones that were Stuck on a Ferry for 2 Days because of his Failed Policy on the Rental of a ship to get them out . You mean the ones that were in Harms Way for 2 Days beacuse of his NON POLICY. Nice try. but if he had Listened to Glenn Beck who Predicted that there would Be uprsings all over the Middle East. Perhaps he could have told them to leave 3 Weeks ago...............

I mean do you think that perhaps Saudi Arabia will be next. Perhaps he should tell them to get out now? Just saying

YAWN.........................

You mean the ones that were Stuck on a Ferry for 2 Days because of his Failed Policy

"You're gonna need a bigger boat!" - Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) Jaws (1975) - He could have been talking to Obama.

I guess all the other countries rented out the bigger boats for their people to get out of Libya. Else saving on the cost of the boat was part of Obama's idea of cutting costs.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360120/Libya-unrest-Hundreds-US-citizens-STILL-stranded-Obama-pressure-act-grows.html

I wonder what the MoTown gig at the White House cost?

LOL JoAnna..

Nice..........................

"You're gonna need a bigger boat!" - Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) Jaws (1975) - He could have been talking to Obama.

I know...he can invade! Right? Just invade the damn country. Hell, there's oil there, right?

Yes...invasion...that'll make you folks in the cheap seats happy, right?

Steve, the ferry rescuing our fellow citizens, was held up due to very bad weather. For a fellow who has many opinions on how things should be done, you really need to keep up.

A cheap shot such as this has no merit, the weather has nothing to do with policy but you knew that, didn't you.

OH. yes. you mean while other countries with Smaller Budgets could rent Bigger boats to get out of gthe Country Safely in any Weather. Our Incompetent in Cheif Rents a Row boat. Go figure.

Da noid and Gingerbread. Should you be over At the DUE DROP INN with the Rest of the Drunks. but really Dont drink to much i would hate not to have you around come Monday to Defend this INCOMPETENT half white man in the White house..

Poor Steve, your hate is showing and therefore your anger drives you to write drivel. You are a pathetic lonely and bitter person.

I had a great time with my friends at the Dew Drop Inn, I only wish it wasn't a virtual good time. The good will it engenders is priceless.

Life is all about how you live it, you choose how that will be, every morning you get out of bed. I choose to be positive and nothing you say or how you insult me or others, can change that,

Hahah. What hate would that be Gingerbread? What in my post is hateful? What isnt true about my post.

Ahhhh Yes we get it. Posting the Truth is Hateful to Democrats/liberals/ progressive..

Gingerbread...

Oh yes. that Virtual World you live in. No wonder you are not Connected to REality. You and the rest of the libbies live in LALA land...

But Please. Keep up the Drinking.

Poor Steve. The view must be pretty good from the cheap seats.

You remind me of the old Russian story of the peasant who envies his neighbor's cow. "I hate that he has a cow and I have none. I want his cow to die!"

You, Steve, are a sad representative of the kind of "leadership" we are getting from the current crop of Republicans. Quick to criticize. Slow to offer alternative solutions. I guess it is easier to curse the darkness than to light a candle.

Shouldnt' you be at the Dew Drop in Getting Drunk by now..............................

YAWN

Yawn...

and you why aren't you out with the Rest of yoru Drunken Friends at the Dew Drop inn. or in the Tree house.

The Tree house is for Tea-baggers, you know? My friends are into real history not fiction.

Actually, if you folllow Steve this afternoon, even though he SAYS he doesn't drink, he sure sounds like he's tuned up on something. SOmething that's made his posts pretty dull and flat.

"Shouldn't' you be in bed instead of making ZZZzzzzzs?"

....or at least, whacking his mole.

Yawn..

...................... Drink up my Liberal Hatemongers. Drink up. you can come back Next week without a Memory and Claim you never said anything Hateful.

Drink up Drink up.. Crazy Drunks..

Libya, the country that is slaughtering it's citizens, is on the Human Rights Committee of the UN.

Tell you anything, like how absolutely worthless the UN is?

bob: Libya, the country that is slaughtering it's citizens, is on the Human Rights Committee of the UN.

The UN will pop off a sanction or two against Libya in a couple of weeks. The UN sub-committees are working on those sanctions, but are taking the weekend off. They're probably at the Dew Drop Inn hanging with the people most like them. But they'll get back to the grind first thing Monday morning, around 11:30am. They'll have some Blue Helmeted troops in there by, ooh, maybe June.

JoAnnaSmith,

And didn't I see/hear somewhere that the Mr. Motown wants to expand our involvement in the UN?

Maybe he can get Hezbollah, Libya's old Human Rights seat.

Hezzbolah, they still around, Bob ?

Dauuuuuuum, i thought Ronnie Raygun whipped thier A$$ back in the 80'z!

Nevermind, I remember now, he brought America's Surviving Marines Home from Lebanon instead of sending in other's to Finish Off Hezzbolah!

LOL, Rick, a little quiz for you, what counrty supports Hezbollah?

LOL backatcha there Paul, is that the country that Iran-Contra Affair cameout of? Are you saying Paul that Ronnie Raygun killed his own Marines to pay back the Ayatollah's for holding 52 American hostages until after the 1980 federal elections? Daum, dig up his bones & lets Investigate this a lil further.

Paul, you're a military man(thank you for your service), tell me did Raygun tuck his Tail & Run after that Marine barracks explosion or Not?

Comeon, it's the weekend, tell me some revisionist history!

I'm up early waiting to call your state to wish my Daughter a Happy Birthday.

Are you kidding? Everyone knows the truth about Ronald Reagan...he was the greatest President EVER!!!

Reagan, as we all know...

...never negotiated with our adversaries. (A Lie)

...never retreated from our enemies. (A Lie)

...reduced the size of government. (A Lie)

...lowered taxes. (A Lie)

...ran an honest administration that was never involved in any scandals. (A Lie)

...was a true fiscal conservative and never raised this nation's debt. (A Lie)

Well Rick, Happy Birthday to your Daughter, though I have one also..............

"Are you saying Paul that Ronnie Raygun killed his own Marines to pay back the Ayatollah's for holding 52 American hostages until after the 1980 federal elections?"

I don't know Rick, that's a Paul's tale there.........What I know from how Hezbollah they use VBIEDs and we didn't do the proper force protection to stop them. Why they pulled out, I don't know, I was in 9th grade and the Army was not part in my life. I know force protection is totally different now.

DaNoid,

Your Great Leader Obama is calling himself the next Reagan, so is your above post true?

Really?

Of course, you'll get me a source for that...and it will, of course, clearly demonstrate that he uses those words, yes?

Da Noid,

Great points. Thanks