Bush & Company

The insidious reach of the radical Right libertarian Koch brothers of Koch Inductries, Wichita, Kansas---philanthropism to the arts and medical research cloaking their real goals---was revealed in February 2011, to be behind Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker's assault on collective bargaining in his state (for the sake of the budget, he said) which burgeoned nationally, and the attempt to make clownlike Herman Cain president, touches upon other sectors, as well, notably the proposed Keystone Pipeline project, questioned by President Obama on environmental grounds and the few temporary jobs it would create, and higher education, Koch's endless resources now funding 150 colleges and universities with contracts that determine hiring of professors, curriculum and ideologies to be forwarded.

Moreover, the brothers' relentless push for impractically low personal and corporate taxes, minimum industrial and environmental regulation and dismantling of needed social programs makes them perhaps the most dangerous force in the nation today.

Unless stopped, their nefarious influence will ultimately control every facet of American life, including academic freedom.

Our greatest blight, the brothers Koch,
Unlike most of our gentlefolk;
Once and for all, their covert skill
Has been uncloaked and yet they still

Can bend the spineless to their will
(Their noxious sway no one foresaw?)
And surely will persist until
The legislators on The Hill,

To bring that power down to nil,
Devise and vote yea to a bill
Signed by the president into law.