God Bless the Koch Brothers!

According to most entrenched and committed liberals in the United States, including the diminished mainstream media, the Koch Brothers are the greatest evil since the Death Star and Darth Vader, and they represent everything that is wrong with democracy.

More accurately, they are two old white men from Kansas with a lot of money, and a libertarian streak which rubs liberals, progressives, and statists the wrong way. God bless the Koch Brothers! The New Yorker published an article declaring "The Koch Brothers' War with Obama". The first picture caption of the article reads:

He and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes.

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Libertarianism is on the rise, from the decriminalization of controlled substances like marijuana, to the expansion of concealed carry laws, to the tax cut and spending restraints in statehouses throughout the country. Libertarianism is on the rise, and not a moment too soon, since President Obama is more like the Evil Empire of Star Wars mythology, expanding a death-like grip of more government and greater regulations over all Americans. One quote from the New Yorker article cannot be overlooked:

Rob Stein, a Democratic political strategist who has studied the conservative movement’s finances, said that the Kochs are “at the epicenter of the anti-Obama movement. But it’s not just about Obama. They would have done the same to Hillary Clinton. They did the same with Bill Clinton. They are out to destroy progressivism.”

God bless the Koch Brothers! Congressman Henry Waxman slammed the Koch Brothers by arguing that the Koch Brothers' influence in Congress was hurting the rest of the country. Waxman criticized Koch Industries for science denial, partisanship, and the rising power of special interests. Waxman then denounced the Koch Brothers because they would profit from the rollback of EPA regulations. Frankly, the vast majority if Americans would profit from not just the rollback but the demise of the sclerotic, frustrating, hyper-bureaucratic EPA, which has made it nearly impossible for businesses to expand, and even legitimate homeowners to build on their own property. God bless the Koch Brothers! The Koch Brothers also support the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, as do other business interests, labor groups, and even the State Department, which has found that the pipeline would have a minimal adverse effect on the environment. Henry Waxman criticized their interest in the project. At the time that Congress was investigating whether to approve the project or not, the now retiring Congressman was looking for any strawmen to distract detractors from his decades of crony political maneuvering, along with the ongoing failures of ObamaCare, Cap and Trade, and the failure of nineteen green tech companies: "I'm sorry Solyndra happened." Despite Waxman's attempt to draw the Koch Brothers into a Committee-subpoena drama, Waxman retracted his outrageous claims of cronyism. God bless the Koch Brothers! The same LA Times which insists on drawing the Koch Brothers into the miasma of political contributions and corruptions, none of which is substantiated, is going bankrupt. The Koch Brothers considered purchasing the newspaper and reviving its coverage. With their conservative understanding of how business and markets work, plus their appreciate for libertarian values, their leadership of the paper would have saved the moribund publication. Ultimately, the Koch Brothers decided not to buy the LA Times, because they did not see the paper as a worthy investment. By choosing not to purchase the paper, the brothers further consigned the LA Times to its disintegrating irrelevance as a trusted or respectable news source. Either way, God bless the Koch Brothers! During the October 2013 government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blamed the oil magnates for instigating the stand-still. "By shutting down the government. . . we're satisfying the Koch brothers. . ." Refusing to endure these infantile attacks, the Koch Brothers punched back: “A great deal of what you read and hear about Koch Industries is erroneous or misleading,” wrote Philip Ellender, the president of government and public affairs at Koch, in a letter to senators on Wednesday. Not content to blast them over the shutdown, which he instigated, Reid has recently blasted them with the hollow slander that they were "un-American" for a series of anti-ObamaCare ads. The Americans for Prosperity are producing and disseminating these ads, with the financial help of the Koch Brothers. These advertisements feature individual Americans who have lost their health insurance or pay higher premiums because of ObamaCare. People throughout the country are suffering. Any person, any agency who will take the time and trouble to take to task Congress, specifically President Obama and every legislator who supported ObamaCare, deserves all the support and praise one can muster. If the Koch Brothers have advanced the cause of #MakeDCListen, if they are investing their funds to bring down liberal-elitist statist, government overreach, it they are not un-American, but very much American, and embody all that makes this country great: free markets, free enterprise, free people, the rule of law, and respect for the individual. God bless the Koch Brothers!