Malkin: Left-funded GOP 'Main Street' Groups

"What do George Soros, labor unions, and money-grubbing former GOP representative Steven LaTourette all have in common?" asks Michelle Malkin. "They’re control freaks. They’re power hounds. They’re united against tea-party conservatives. And they have all operated under the umbrella of D.C. groups masquerading as “Main Street” Republicans."

The New York Times shed light on LaTourette’s tangled web of Republican-establishment outfits last week. But that story just scratched the surface. As the paper reported, the Main Street Partnership is a nonprofit group that charges members up to $25,000 per year to rub elbows with Washington’s rich and powerful. The Main Street Advocacy Fund and the Defending Main Street super PAC are political satellites planning to amass $8 million to bolster Republican liberals and moderates facing tea-party challengers in 2014. ...

The Times notes that “corporations and lobbyists” fund the Main Street Partnership. But far-left donors provided seed money for these affiliated K Street fronts.

Malkin tracks the money — $50,000 from George Soros, $400,000 from two labor unions — that has funded the center-left "pro-bailout, pro-debt, pro-amnesty, anti-drilling" plans of these Main Street groups that include GOP Senators John McCain, Mark Kirk and Susan Collins.

Along with the anti-tea-party U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the “Main Street” fat cats and union leaders have banded together to help President Obama push through amnesty for illegal aliens. The payoff: cheap labor for big business, cheap votes for the Democratic party.

There’s nothing principled about their agenda. It’s not about “common sense.” It’s about the Benjamins. These statists in populist clothing are running a Washington incumbency-protection racket. Same as it ever was.

UPI reported this week on a Rasmussen Reports poll indicating "just 8 percent of likely voters think Congress is doing a good or excellent job" while "66% rate its performance as poor." Perhaps voters are better at sorting the good guys from the bad than D.C. lobbyists think.