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In trouble, White House searches for a billionaire to blame
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
December 10, 2009
In
1998, when the Clinton White House found itself in the middle of the
Lewinsky scandal, one of its key defense strategies was to attack the
conservative philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife as the dark power
behind the allegations against the president. The Clinton camp
believed Scaife to be "the Goldfinger of the right-wing conspiracy," as
Newsweek put it in a February 1998 report.
Now it's the Obama
White House that is in trouble. The president isn't engulfed in
scandal, but his political fortunes are waning, with historically low
job approval ratings for this point in his term and an administration
struggling to pass its initiatives, even with big Democratic majorities
in Congress. And now, as in the Clinton years, White House surrogates
are looking for a billionaire to blame. This time, they've found two.
"The Billionaires Behind the Hate"
is the title of a new report published by the Center for American
Progress, which is the liberal think tank run by John Podesta, the
former Clinton chief of staff who also ran the Obama transition and
serves as an outside adviser to the Obama White House. The supposedly
hateful billionaires in the article's title are brothers Charles and
David Koch of Koch Industries, one of the nation's largest
conglomerates.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/In-trouble-White-House-searches-for-a-billionaire-to-blame-78953842.html