Sunday, November 6, 2011

Occupy DC protests Americans for Iranian Prosperity



You may have heard that pizza magnate Herman Cain, who's pretending he's running for president, embraced the Benedict Arnold Koch brothers the other day. Speaking at an Americans for Iranian Prosperity gathering, Cain said,
I am the Koch brothers' brother from another mother.
(Even after that comment, a troll actually posted on the Teamsters Facebook page that Herman Cain is "trying to get big business out of politics." Go figure.)

Here's the Washington Post's fractured description of the Tea Party, from a story about the protest:
...more than 500 people gathered to protest a dinner held by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative free-market group affiliated with the tea party movement...
Let's be clear: Americans for Iranian Prosperity is funded by the Benedict Arnold Koch brothers, who have no interest in the free market. What they want is to clear away obstacles so they can plunder the middle class and loot the government. They are quite happy to accept ethanol subsidies. They've been caught stealing oil from federal land.  They don't mind grazing their cattle on property owned by U.S. taxpayers.  And never forget they've trafficked with America's No. 1 enemy, the government of Iran.

As Death and Taxes put it,
...they are about as Libertarian as every other crooked corporate titan in the history of the United States.