About a month ago, Democratic Senator from Nevada Harry Reid went on attack against known conservative super-supporters: The Koch Brothers. If you are unfamiliar with the Koch (pronounced "coke") Brothers, they are two of the richest people in the world, and they aren't shy about putting their money to use, namely supporting political candidates who are likely to drink their kool aid; preferably out of the dixie cups which they make. Because Charles G. and David H. Koch are in fact real people, no matter how distant and aloof they may seem, Harry Reid's personal (and sudden) crusade against them seemed to have hurt their feelings, prompting Charles to write a seemingly heartfelt op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. However, if you watch the video below, you'll see why I said "seemingly".
Now, since one of my goals on this blog is to present both sides whenever possible I decided that I should try to post a video of someone defending the Koch Brothers and their actions. This is surprisingly hard to find as it seems the internet isn't fond of the Koch Brothers one bit. After some searching I found the following video of Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana at a town hall style meeting on March 18, 2014. In the video Vitter is responding to a women's concerns over whether or not lobbying (and more specifically the Koch Brothers) has too much of an effect on our government.
Before you point to this as proof that the Koch Brothers are just extremely successful American businessmen whom all the regular peasants are jealous of, I would first like to dig a little deeper. One of my favorite resources for doing just such is a site called OpenSecrets.org which is "the nation's premier research group [for] tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public
