You might know of Jim Messina for his service in the White House — he was the guy who offered jobs to people to get them to back out of Democratic primaries. He was the backroom guy trying (not very successfully in the case we know of) to affect political outcomes behind closed doors.

Messina is now President Obama’s reelection campaign manager, and he got in a little back-and-forth with the Koch Brothers recently. He wrote a fundraising letter accusing them of “jacking up” gas prices for profit. They wrote back a scathing reply which called out the Obama White House for singling out and smearing private citizens for the crime of participating in the political process — something this White House has been doing ever since the President of the United States trashed the secured creditors of Chrysler in a major nationally televised speech.