GOP Takes Up Russia-Aligned Attack On Soros

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico Magazine


How Russian propaganda on the Balkans found its way onto congressional letterhead.

By ISAAC ARNSDORF, ANDREW HANNA and KENNETH P. VOGEL March 22, 2017

A group of congressional Republicans is teaming up with Russia-backed politicians in Eastern Europe with the shared goal of stopping a common enemy: billionaire financier George Soros.

Led by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, the conservative lawmakers have signed on to a volley of letters accusing Soros of using his philanthropic spending to project his liberal sensibilities onto European politics. As Lee and other senators put it in a March 14 letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Soros’s Open Society Foundations are trying “to push a progressive agenda and invigorate the political left.” It’s an accusation that’s being fomented and championed by Moscow.

Soros, who survived the Nazi occupation of his native Hungary and fled after World War II when it was under Soviet control, has been long a bête noir of the Kremlin, which sees his funding for civil society groups in former Soviet satellite states as part of a plot to install pro-Western governments. For years, those complaints had generally fallen on deaf ears in Washington.

While Republicans have long regarded Soros as a mortal enemy when it comes to domestic politics (where he has spent tens of millions of dollars backing Democratic candidates and liberal causes), their politics were more aligned on the international stage. Soros’s efforts to boost democracy and root out corruption in former Eastern Bloc countries dovetailed with traditional Republican foreign policy objectives.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/george-soros-russia-republicans-214938

[Cosmocat]

1. I mean ... just ... wha ????

These people are truly deranged.

[Chasstev365]

2. Oh for Fucks Sake

Can't they just for ONE FUCKING TIME ADMIT THEY ARE IN THE WRONG???

Pathetic losers!

[DURHAM D]

3. Un F*ckin' Believable

[turbinetree]

4. This what turncoats do that wear flags on the left lapels and they embellish talk out of the sides

of there mouth about who and what are the virtues of be "patriots" to whom should now be the question?

They are just like the Tories way back, if you think about it, there allegiance is not to there own Country but to a foreign state (Crown) --------------amazing.

They then come out from under a rock and "align' themselves with a oligarchies and the Russian mafia, thinking in there delusional way, that "one" man is the problem and he gives to "liberal" causes to help "all, while on there "patriotic team" of BS, they have a sexual predator running around and his accomplices more than likely committed Treason----------what exactly am I missing here, on what the word "patriot" means, the republican version or the version of the democrat.

Republican version:

traitor
ˈtrādər/
noun
a person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc.



I think I will side on the Democratic version:

pa·tri·ot
ˈpātrēət/Submit
noun
1.
a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors

[secondwind]

5. how low can these folks go? seriously!

[Demsrule86]

6. GOP...Putin's puppets go on the attack...good little puppies....

The Kremlin owns the GOP.

[rockfordfile]

7. un-American republicans

[DK504]

8. I am so confused.

These whiny traitorous bastards are decrying something all their 1%er friends do. So all the Fascists that fund every little election from public school superintendent to President. The Kock suckers come to mind, it's okay if you are republican. A democrat however, it's the downfall of all civilization.

How the hell does this always miss media outlets attention?

[BumRushDaShow]

9. What is this obsession that they have over this guy? It's abnormal.

[dhill926]

10. he's a traitor to their class....

[BumRushDaShow]

11. There are much richer "traitors to their class" than Soros.

Hell, they could go after Bloomberg, but he laughs in their face.

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. Difference is Soros puts his money where his mouth is

He funds all kinds of pro-Democracy groups around the world

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Bloomberg funded candidates here who wanted gun regulation

(mostly Democrats).

And if you use that criteria, I expect money from the top couple on the Forbes list do go to such orgs (whether we hear about it or not).

Problem is that billionaires like the Drumpfs and Kochs and Adelsons and their ilk are considered trash by the other billionaires.

[haele]

14. Soros is a WWII Hungarian survivor/refugee with a knack for currency and and hedge funds.

He tends to practice a softer capitalism with a socialist/environmental heart. Prefers stable markets to bubbles. He's still a shark though, like Buffett is, and the less regulation, the better.

He helped tank the British Pound during the eighties, because he was opposed to the bubbleicious free-market economic philosophy the British Oligarchs were pushing as bad for global business. Which made him anathema to PNAC and the Republican U.S. investment/venture capital "gurus", so he became their boogieman. Though he doesn't play much with commodities, and not much in the US, so honestly, he has less influence here than most Republicans like to pretend.
He's more focused on the EU and maybe west/central Asia. And he's been avoiding Russia since Yeltsen took over; rightly treats the Russian Oligarchy like a group of Mobsters, and Putin as an economic enemy.

Haele

[BumRushDaShow]

17. I know who he is but that's sortof my point

Their obsession is ridiculous considering that as much as the current GOP crop drops his name because they just parrot whatever the RW gasbags utter (like them often blurting out "Saul Alinsky" as some sort of "scary" name), they are no more at that level of money-handling than the man in the moon. Their use of his name as a meme is well past the expiration date.

[lark]

15. These days Repugs love corruption and increase it exponentially when they are in government.

No wonder they dislike Soros, besides just wanting to make Pootie and his puppet like them.

[haele]

16. Damnit, just when I was thinking about quitting my day job and become a professional protester...

Here they go and start vilifying my future potential employer...
Those $10K an event checks for full-time "Specialist Protest Technicians" from the Soros Foundation I was going to retire on is probably going start triggering IRS audits
Guess I got to go back to being a contractor for the Gummit.

Haele