Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., must be so confused right now. Well, probably not.
President Obama plans to nominate Victoria Hughes to chair the Corporation for National and Community Service, a “key” administration post, the White House announced Thursday.
Hughes is not only a former employee of the Heritage Foundation, the noted conservative think-tank headed now by former Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., but she at one time also worked for Koch Industries.
That’s Koch as in Charles and David Koch, the libertarian-leaning billionaire brothers against whom Reid and the Democratic Party have waged an all out war in the past few years.
Reid’s crusade against the brothers has reached such a pitch that a few noted figures have called out the Nevada senator for engaging in distasteful “obsession.”
“In a panic over tight races, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has decided to deploy the class warfare strategy of Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and blame the rich for America’s continued economic stagnation,” former Education Secretary Bill Bennett said in an op-ed this week. “Reid has developed a particular obsession with attacking David and Charles Koch, two private citizens and successful American entrepreneurs and employers.”
Needless to say, the White House announcing Thursday that it plans to align itself with a former Koch employee raises some interesting questions.
For starters, does this mean that we now get to refer to the Obama administration as a “Koch-affiliated” group?
