Harry Reid

Settle down, Dingy.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he’s not afraid of the big, bad Koch brothers, and he’ll do his damnedest to reveal them as a pair of profiteers bent on “buying America.”

The Nevada Democrat has launched a personal campaign in recent days aimed at discrediting billionaire oil magnates David and Charles Koch, and the multimillion-dollar ad campaigns they fund to take down Democrats.

Asked at a roundtable discussion with reporters Thursday if he was at all worried about reprisals from two billionaires with a reputation for bare-knuckle tactics, Reid’s response amounted to: Come at me, bros.

“I wish they would hire some private detectives to go after me. What a boring time they would have,” Reid said. “I am one of the most boring people in the world. I don’t care about being investigated by the best of them.”

It’s not that people haven’t warned Reid that there could be consequences.

“I’ve been told by lots of people: ‘Don’t pick a fight. They’re wealthy, they are very vengeful, don’t do this. You’re making a mistake.’ But without being overly dramatic about this … I’m not afraid of them,” Reid said, suggesting they couldn’t hit him where it really hurts, in his home state.

“My goal in Nevada is to get one vote more than 50 percent,” Reid said. “I can’t please everybody, so if they want to come to Nevada and tell everybody in Nevada what a bad guy I am, some people agree with them already. So let them try to get over 50 percent.”

Reid has said repeatedly on the Senate floor over the last week that the brothers are trying to buy America. Some estimates put their spending against Democrats at $30 million for this election year alone. Reid quipped earlier this week that the GOP is “addicted to Koch,” a pun he said came from his wife.

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