There's a genuinely scary article...

...in The New Yorker this week about the money that's behind the tea party movement. "Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama" is about Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, the second-largest private company in America.

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.

But take heart, centrists, because despite all their billions, the Koch brothers have been unable to prevent the passage of the stimulus bill, health care or financial regulatory reform.