Why the Kochs Want to Make Chris Christie President

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AlterNet / By Adele M. Stan

Why the Kochs Want to Make Chris Christie President
Neither Romney nor Perry has done the one thing that truly excites the Koch brothers and their fellow deep-pocketed Christie fans: take on the public sector unions in a big way.

September 27, 2011 |


When Texas Gov. Rick Perry, currently the frontrunner in the Republican presidential nomination contest, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made a pilgrimage in June to a Colorado gathering of wealthy right-wing donors convened by billionaires Charles and David Koch, one man clearly impressed the brothers much more than the other.

Introducing Christie, who delivered the keynote address to the Koch Industries gathering, David Koch gushed. "With his enormous success in reforming New Jersey, some day we might see him on a larger stage where, God knows, he is desperately needed," said Koch, according to secretly recorded audio files of the event obtained by Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog.

Yet Christie, foe of teachers and their unions, had made it plain months before in no uncertain terms: he was not running for president. "Short of suicide, I don't really know what I'd have to do to convince you people that I'm not running," Christie told a group of reporters in February. "I'm not running."

His protestations aside, a new push for a Christie candidacy by a handful of high-flying Republican political donors -- including Koch, the moneybags behind the Tea Party aligned group, Americans for Prosperity, and countless other right-wing organizations and efforts -- has the political world aflutter at the prospect of the pugilistic former prosecutor on the debate stand. Republican luminaries including Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol have suggested Christie enter the presidential contest, and even Karl Rove has publicly mused on that possibility. Further stoking the speculation, Christie last night delivered at the Reagan Library a speech that sounded for all of the world like the rationale for a Christie presidential candidacy. ..............(more)

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1. There is a deep streak of malice toward Americans in the Koch brothers.

They not only want all the money and control. They want to crush the life out of the average American. They want to have slaves that bow before them when they pass. They want a police state that kicks your head in if you ask for a pay raise. "Please Sir, may I have more." is all they want to hear from the masses of Americans.

I think the Koch brothers are evil.

[tcaudilllg]

8. I agree. I think it's the stalking horse.

[Fuddnik]

2. Christie will work for food.

[maxrandb]

4. From David Letterman

Top 10 changes if Christie is elected President

"The American Taxpayer will have to pay for the President's 2nd seat on Air Force One."

[madokie]

3. Know your koch's

http://old.mediatransparency.org/reprints/bobdolekoch.htm

scumbags bigtime

[Lynx]

5. a song for the occasion

Can he prance up a hill? No! No! No! No! No!
Can he dance a quadrille! No! No! No! No! No!
Does he fit in my coupe? By himself he's a group.
Could he possibly sit up on my knee? No! No! No! No! No!
He's too fat for me!

I don't want him
You can have him
He's too fat for me.
He's too fat for me. He's too fat for me.
Oh
I don't want him
You can have him
He's too fat for me
He's too fat for me.
I get dizzy
I get numbo.
When I'm dancing with my Jum-Jum-Jumbo.
He's a twosome
He's a foursome

IF he'd lose some I would like him moresome

[applegrove]

6. Koch brothers use 'the corporation', a tool created to allow for upward mobility that is lacking in

pure capitalism, to fund politicians and think tanks to undo 'the union, another tool created to allow for upward mobility pure capitalism fails at. The first helps the middle class and rich people get richer, the second helps poor people and middle class people get richer.

If this is not class warfare I don't know what it!!!

[SnakeEyes]

7. Do we have solid evidence of a connection

between Christie and the Koch brothers?

[katty]

9. christie is the perfect blowhard for koch $ interests-first say...

no, no, no I am not running-then boom, he becomes the frontrunner. he's jeb bush w/out the stigma of the bush name.