Koch Me If You Can

Let’s put a face on some of the biggest donors for the Republican/Tea Party. Here are the real rulers of the party: The Koch brothers. David and Charles are head of Koch Industries of Wichita Kansas, a chemical, textile, trading and refining conglomerate.

These boys are the wheeler-dealers who keep the money flowing to the GOP (Greedy Obstructionist Pinheads) which appears to entitle them to run rough-shod over governmental regulations. They remind me of another pair of crooked brothers: Frank and Jessie James except they don’t use six-guns when they rob the government of taxable income so that law abiding citizens have to pick up the tab. 

They picked up the mantle from dear ole dad, Fred Koch, who was an early adviser to the founder of the John Birch Society, which fought against the civil rights movement and the United Nations.  Talk about the apple not falling far from the tree and rotten to the core. They would like to abolish Social Security, the Federal Reserve System, welfare, minimum wage laws and federal agencies -- including the Department of Energy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Here are the latest allegations against the Koch’s according to a report coming out in November’s issue of Bloomberg Markets Magazine.

• Koch Industries made improper payments (described by the former compliance director who discovered them as "bribes") to win business in six countries over eight years, a possible violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. One criminal law professor called the findings a "smoking gun.” The company described the payments as "activities constitut[ing] violations of criminal law."
• Koch Industries sold millions dollars worth of refinery equipment to Iran after President George W. Bush declared the nation was part of the “Axis of Evil.” The company claims these sales were legal at the time, and says it has since cut ties with Iran.
• Koch Industries allegedly pilfered 1.95 million barrels of crude oil pumped from federal lands by falsifying purchasing records, a Senate investigation found. One former worker said the company routinely incorrectly measured the oil, calling this practice the “Koch Method.”
• Koch Industries ignored federal regulations for pipeline safety — resulting in the deaths of at least two people in a pipeline explosion in Lively, Texas in 1996.

These two boneheads are probably the largest contributors to the Republican/Tea Party in the country and have been foaming at the mouth for Corporate Chris (I have a few big ideas but mostly I have a BIG appetite) Christie to jump into the 45^th running of the President’s cup.  The Koch brothers have a anti-labor and anti-regulatory agenda and Christie would have fit this plan to a T, but it seems that Corporate Chris didn’t get the memo laying out the Sarah Palin plan on how to be a half-assed governor and has decided to finish his term as Governor of New Jersey.

 Just another example of how money is corrupting the political system in America when you have creeps like this pouring cash into campaigns for their own self serving reasons.

The rats are jumping from the sinking ship.  More of Michele ( Where did everybody go?) Bachmann’s staff has hit the door as her gaffe-riddled wacko presidential campaign limps down the road toward oblivion.  


Texas Governor Rick (I’m ambidextrous. I can piss off both the Right and the Left) Perry’s campaign seems to be picking up momentum.  Of course things always go faster downhill.
 

Willard (Why do you think I go by Mitt) Romney is pretty much holding his own right now.  I get that, I mean who else would want to hold it.


Harold (Who said pizza and politics don’t mix) Cain seems to be gaining some support.  I think his new slogan “A pizza in every pot” or is it “Pot in every pizza” is starting to get some attention. 



 Stay tuned for future adventures.