Front Page – Above the fold:

Covert Operations

The billionaire brothers who are

waging a war against Obama.

Kudos to the Sunday Republican Newspaper for reprinting this story by Jane Mayer, first published in the Aug 30 edition of The New Yorker.  This article exposes the Koch brothers for their role in swaying elections and influencing legislation by using their bottomless pit of billions:  

The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry-especially environmental regulation. These views dovetail with the brothers’ corporate interests. In a study released this spring, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the top ten air polluters in the United States. And Greenpeace issued a report identifying the company as a “kingpin of climate science denial.” The report showed that, from 2005 to 2008, the Kochs vastly outdid ExxonMobil in giving money to organizations fighting legislation related to climate change, underwriting a huge network of foundations, think tanks, and political front groups. Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies-from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program-that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/repor…

It shows their connection to the Tea Party through the Americans for Prosperity organization, heck, it shows the connection to the Americans for Properity organization.