organizations like ultraviolet to harness the energy to make the viral moments we saw. sandra: we saw shauna thomas and while she acknowledged some of the protestors were normal people who were mad she did point out that what she saw were also people who were organized and paid. she made several examples of that. that s the great honest shauna thomas. somebody who i have admired her work for a long time. the paid protestors soros stuff republicans like because it we don t have to listen to these people because they re all pawns in the left wing conspiracy and soros baid. democrat said it s all koch brothers money. it s questioning the motives of the other people. if republicans kid themselves if they believe the energy is not real and those people aren t out there and won t have consequences going forward not
2009, 2010 did foreshadow victories for republicans in the house and later the senate. obamacare still passed. that s a very good point. and the reaction to obamacare i think was in large part why they reaped the electoral whirlwind. you have republicans not sure how this is going to play out. sort of paralyzed, do we do something, do we not do something. they want to see if this has staying power. they want to see if it s real. most republicans i talk to think it s gined up, george soar os money, planned parenthood, this isn t real grassroots. i remember republicans eight years ago democrats saying this is all koch brothers money, it isn t a phenomenon. only time will tell. you can t fake the passion we re seeing. only time will tell if those activists are engaged in the long run and organizing the way the tea party d. the tea party had local chapters. they had people who stayed involved. it was a long-term if he nonl non. pea what are you hearing?
succe succeed, and hoping that people aren t covered in the way that it s supposed to be. you know, senator mitch mcconnell, governor, got four pick noek opi no pinnochios for claiming 280,000 people got cancellation notices. the law helped 370,000 kentuckyians get coverage. is this all they can do is make wild claims and hope they don t get called out for them? well, sure. and again, because they ve got so much money behind this, koch brothers money, ul sorts of money, they re going to try to make these wild, inaccurate claims, throw them up there and hope that they fade. talk about them enough they will stick. and it depend on us to step forward. and not just the people running, like in kentucky, governor brashear, who s got a lot invested because his state health exchange is one of the most successful in the country. he s got to speak out, even though he s not on the ballot and say they re lying to you.
joining me now, e.j. deion, eej, thanks for being here. you write about how president obama needs to fight back. i want to read this to the audience. going on offense means first building on what senate majority leader reid is taking on against the koch brothers and other right wing millionaires trying to buy themselves a congress. it is also about drawing a sharp line between the interests and policy goals of those fronting that money and the rest of us. the koch brothers dark money machine is powerful. can the democrats fight back, e.j.? well, they can t beat it if they don t which which is why i think they did need to go at it. and going at them serves a number of purposes as once. first of all, it gets people
basically taking a page from the obama play book. and their groups of undisclosed donors are throwing millions into this year s midterm elections. they ve spent $2 million so far in michigan, more than $3 million in louisiana, $8 million in north carolina. so far they ve poured a whopping $30 million into races all across the country. but today democrats are fighting back. we learned a democratic political action committee is planning a $3 million ad campaign to challenge the koch brothers in five key states. the democratic senatorial campaign committee launched a web site dedicated to following the koch money. and senator harry reid recently ramped up his attacks, accusing the kochs of terrible dishonesty and calling them as un-american as anyone he can imagine.