In the greatest libertarian drama since John Galt shattered a mirror with the intensity of his stare, the venerable Cato Institute--I think that's actually it's full name, The Venerable Cato Institute, like Stately Wayne Manor--is fending off the pawing advances of the Koch brothers, who intend to abduct this idea factory and make it their ivory slave. Pam Martens offers edification at Counterpunch on Cato's so-far winning campaign to portray itself as a squirming underdog being muscled by brutes.




Cato's protestations of independence ring false because, as Martens details, the incestuousness bred by corporate donors such as the Kochs turns the intellectual lobby of capitalism-in-the-raw into one big shiny self-ratifying, propaganda-belching organism.




The Republican Party should just change its name to the Koch Supremacy and be done with it.