Don't really get the left's concern about them, to be honest. There are big fundraisers on the left and on the right (Koch Bros., meet Soros). I think partisans on both sides feel that generally, this is a bad thing, except when it's not. Democrats like that Soros money (although he hasn't been donating to candidates lately), and Republicans like that Koch money. This isn't a partisan problem - money is corrupting both sides of the equation.
The left is happy for some reason that the Governor Walker of Wisconsin accepted what turned out to be a prank phone call from one of these Koch brothers, while apparently refusing to talk to the union he was attempting to bust. This proves...I don't know what. That Walker takes phone calls from (a) people who give him lots of money and (b) who he has spoken with before. OK! It's not much of a surprise that he wasn't taking direct calls from the union, considering that he is trying to break them up. Compromise is not Walker's goal. Is that why liberals are gloating? Newsflash: lots of people don't like unions, public sector ones especially. I think those people are wrong, and should be responded to on the merits. But the whole Koch thing is a distraction.
Conservatives do this too with Soros. I don't get it.
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