Tea Party. Billionaires' plot against Obama. Part II

In a statement, Koch Industries said that the Greenpeace report “distorts the environmental record of our companies.” And David Koch, in a recent, admiring article about him in New York, protested that the “radical press” had turned his family into “whipping boys,” and had exaggerated its influence on American politics. But Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said, “The Kochs are on a whole different level. There’s no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation. I’ve been in Washington since Watergate, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times.”

Tea Party. Billionaires plot against Obama. Part I.

Midterm elections that Democrats lost in November of 2010 and lost control over the House of Representatives (lower chamber of the U.S. Congress) were caused by emergence of a rising power at the American political scene and this power is the Tea Party. This Party, which borrowed its name from the history of American independence movement, has united the very same “One-storeyed America” that Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov used to describe 75 years ago.