Most of Reid’s headlines from last week were related to a campaign finance controversy. Reid paid his granddaughter, a jewelry designer, some $31,000 in campaign funds in 2012 and 2013 to create holiday gifts for his donors.It goes without saying that nothing is a “gift” if you use someone else’s money to buy something for them. That’s called being a cheapskate. But being cheap isn’t against the law, and neither is employing family members as part of a campaign. A testy Reid said he’d done nothing wrong, then all but admitted as much when he announced he’d written a personal check to reimburse his campaign. If it were that easy for him to come up with the money, why didn’t he use personal funds in the first place?What’s especially galling about Reid’s campaign finance blunder, however, is the fact that he has spent much of March hammering the industrialist/philanthropist Koch brothers as “about as un-American as anyone that I can imagine.” Over what? Using their own money to fund groups that criticize Obamacare, Reid and help elect Republicans. Reid is so mad at the Kochs, whose companies employ tens of thousands of people, that he had his own PAC fund a counterattack campaign smearing both GOP candidates and the brothers.
And the lame excuse he gives for FHer-care's failure - that "people are not educated about how to use the Internet" - is given the lie by all the clearly-below-genius-types I see passing by my office window all day every day, eyes glued to their mobile-device screens. Then there's his pathetic attempt to walk back his accusation that individuals with personal stories to tell about FHer-care's failure were liars.
He's been at this for a long time. He tried to use his faux-sacntimonious rhetoric to derail the US-led international coalition's deposing of Saddam Hussein over a decade ago.
How do FHers sleep at night?
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