Fascinating column by David Brooks in today's New York Times. He deflates somewhat the myth that Barak Obama's war chest comes primarily from small donors. He is beating John McCain steadily with large contributions from individuals who work for large corporations.

This graff caught my eye:

When you break it out by individual companies, you find that employees of Goldman Sachs gave more to Obama than workers of any other employer. The Goldman Sachs geniuses are followed by employees of the University of California, UBS, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, National Amusements, Lehman Brothers, Harvard and Google. At many of these workplaces, Obama has a three- or four-to-one fund-raising advantage over McCain.

And then Brooks, the op-ed page’s mild conservative commentator, finishes with this eye-raiser:

Over the past few years, people from Goldman Sachs have assumed control over large parts of the federal government. Over the next few they might just take over the whole darn thing.

Anyone have any examples? I’m curious.