Does Anyone Listen to Harry Reid?

Guess what? Most of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s constituents don’t listen to him. They at least don’t listen to his silly rants about how the Koch brothers control the universe.

Sen. Harry Reid (Reid.Senate.gov)

The Washington Post hit Las Vegas to do an informal survey, and found the vast majority never heard of David and Charles Koch, whose only crime is donating to causes that Reid doesn’t agree with.

  

It wasn’t Reid who led the charge but Common Cause, the left-wing group that calls itself non-partisan and for good government. Check out my piece on the group for the Capital Research Center.

 Common Cause is going after sitting Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, claiming their speeches to the Federalist Society somehow violate the Judicial Code of Ethics.
“Common Cause’s focus on the Supreme Court grew out of a landmark campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that in early 2010 lifted the ban on corporate and union spending on political campaigns,” a Common Cause press release says. “The ruling sent a flood of corporate and undisclosed money into the mid-term elections, drowning out the voices of ordinary Americans.”
So how is a Justice’s speaking to a group of lawyers at the Federalist Society a scandal? Common Cause explains that by use of Sen. Harry Reid’s favorite bogeymen: “Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who sided with the majority in that case, have ties to a major beneficiary of the decision, Koch Industries, one of the largest privately held corporations in the nation,” the release continues.
Common Cause consistently attacks the Koch brothers simply for contributing to pro-free enterprise causes that Common Cause doesn’t approve of. The traditional notion that the antidote to speech you don’t like is counter-speech in the public arena seems a foreign concept to Common Cause. If its view doesn’t win, that can only mean someone else must have had an unfair advantage.