Let’s see if anything is missing here. This is taken from the Wikipedia entry on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC):

The House Committee on Un-American Activities became a standing (permanent) committee in 1945. Representative Edward J. Hart of New Jersey became the committee’s first chairman. Under the mandate of Public Law 601, passed by the 79th Congress, the committee of nine representatives investigated suspected threats of subversion or propaganda that attacked “the form of government guaranteed by our Constitution.”

What’s missing? The political party to which Representative Edward J. Hart of New Jersey belonged. For that, you have to go to the next level where we find:

Edward Joseph Hart was an American DEMOCRATIC PARTY politician who represented New Jersey’s 14th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1935-1955.

So we are seeing nothing new here these seventy odd years later. It’s the same party bringing it all back again.

The modern progressive movement admires their predecessors’ stand against McCarthy so deeply that references to that inauspicious period of American history are regularly deployed in liberal publications and media outlets.

Those noble principles apparently go right out the window when Democrats face what increasingly appears to be a catastrophic political landscape heading into the 2014 midterm election cycle. Political handicappers beginning to suggest Republicans have better than even odds of recapturing the upper chamber of Congress in November as Democratic officeholders struggle to defend the political millstone that has become of the Affordable Care Act. Rather than surrender to their fates, Democrats have taken to identifying their own shadowy boogeyman wrecking America from within.

So it is to be the Koch Brothers who will be used as the focus, under the Alinskyite prescription of personalising the enemy which is the approach one takes when supporters are generally not very bright and abstract thought eludes them.

And to go back just a bit, the predecessor to HUAC was the Dies Committee

On May 26, 1938, the House Committee on Un-American Activities was established as a special investigating committee, reorganized from its previous incarnations as the Fish Committee and the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist or fascist ties. It was chaired by Martin Dies Jr. (DEMOCRAT-TX), and therefore known as the Dies Committee.

In 1946, the committee considered opening investigations into the Ku Klux Klan but decided against doing so, prompting known anti-black committee member John E. Rankin (DEMOCRAT-MS) to remark, "After all, the KKK is an old American institution."[12] Instead of the Klan, HUAC concentrated on investigating the possibility that the American Communist Party had infiltrated the Works Progress Administration, including the Federal Theatre Project and the Federal Writers' Project.

Investigating communists was an afterthought when the Democrats refused to investigate the Ku Klux Klan! What a shameful history the Democrats have but what is even more shameful is the way history is distorted to make it seem that it was all Republican and all by themselves. And the interesting part about Dies is that he was as much an anti-communist as Joe McCarthy. He is saved from modern contempt on the left only because of his party affiliation.

[The Mediate story on McCarthyism and the Koch Brothers is via Instapundit]