When The New York Times reported last week on a new attack book about Barack Obama, it cited a critique by Media Matters for America, the liberal watchdog group. Which is just the way David Brock envisioned it would work when he founded the group in 2004, with funding from liberal philanthropists.

Millionaire Susie Tompkins Buell is a candidate’s dream, the sort of contributor who’s willing to give again and again and again.

“I get worked up and ask, ‘What can I do?’ and the first answer is always to give money,” Buell told The New York Times in 2004.

Buell is worked up again - this time over the prospect that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton might not get the Democratic presidential nomination.