. . UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS : LAW: CASES: Why Would the Koch Brothers Want to Refine Cato Institute? . . Why Would the Koch Brothers Want to Refine Cato Institute? Posted by Ezra Kleinat 02:37 PM ET, 03/09/2012 Washington Post Wonk Bloghttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-would- the-koch-brothers-want-to-refine-cato-institute/2012/03/09/ gIQAxKWe1R_blog.html
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/835nw29 . .It seems that the effort by billionaires Charles and David Koch to take control of the libertarian Cato Institute is going poorly.
. snip .The Koch brothers have long supported Cato, which they helped found in Washington in 1977. Recently, however, they have come to consider their creation politically unreliable. In a meeting with Robert Levy, chairman of Catos board of directors, they expressed their intention to remake the institute into a party organ that would aid their effort to unseat President Obama. To do so, however, they need control of the board. They intend to get it by suing the widow of William Niskanen, a recently deceased board member, for control of Niskanens shares.
.Whether they can pull off this coup is for the courts to decide. But the bigger question is: Why in the world would they want to?
. snip .I find much of Catos hard-line libertarianism to the point of purging Will Wilkinson and Brink Lindsey, libertarians who explored making common cause with liberals on select issues naive, callous and occasionally absurd. And yet, its among a handful of think tanks whose work I regularly read and trust.
.Thats because Cato is, well, the foremost advocate for small-government principles in American life. It advocates those principles when Democrats are in power, and when Republicans are in power. When I read Catos take on a policy question, I can trust that it is informed by more than partisan convenience. The same cant be said for other think tanks in town.
.The Heritage Foundation, for instance, is a conservative think tank that professes to pursue goals similar to Catos. Where Catos motto is individual liberty, free markets, and peace, Heritages mission is the advancement of conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
.In practice, however, whatever the Republican Party wants, so does Heritage. In 1989, Heritage helped develop the idea of universal health care delivered by the private sector through an individual mandate. In the early 1990s, it helped Senate Republicans build that concept into a legislative alternative to President Bill Clintons proposed reforms. In the early 2000s, Heritage worked with then-Governor Mitt Romney to implement the plan in Massachusetts. Then, when Obama won office and Democrats adopted Heritages idea, Heritage promptly fell into step with the Republican Party and turned ferociously against it.
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