Fun fact of the day.
Via National Journal:
On Feb. 26, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor and declared that billionaire Republican businessmen Charles and David Koch were “un-American.” He’s barely been able to stop talking about the “Koch brothers” ever since.
On March 4, Reid declared that Senate Republicans were “addicted to Koch.” On March 13, Reid mentioned the “Koch brothers” in a floor speech 25 times. This week, he said Republicans should wear Koch insignia on their suits—like NASCAR drivers. […]
The “Koch brothers”—who run Koch Industries, the Kansas-based firm that Forbes ranks as the second-largest private company in the United States—went unmentioned on the House and Senate floors between February 1998 and December 2010.
But in March 2014, their names were called out 79 times—and no one cited them more than Reid. Already, the Koch brothers have been name-dropped 38 times in April. […]
The volume of the Democrats’ Koch brothers messaging is cranked so high that its rise rivals congressional mentions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, even amid the incursion into Crimea and the international standoff over Ukraine. In fact, so far in April, Sunlight’s data show that “Koch brothers” has been said more than “Vladimir Putin.”