...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.
Kochtopus training program on how to fool, manipulate and control the GOP/teabagging fringe and grow frog candidates.
A Republican campaign consultant who has done research on behalf of Charles and David Koch said of the Tea Party, "The Koch brothers gave the money that founded it.
It's like they put the seeds in the ground. Then the rainstorm comes, and the frogs come out of the mud-and they're our candidates!"
Burnt Orange Report: Meet the GOP/Tea Party Billionaire Puppet Masters