Defending Main Street a New Center-Right, Pro-Business Alternative to the Tea Party?

This sounds like just what America needs as an antidote to the Tea Party sickness.

But there's also Defending Main Street, a new GOP-leaning group that's halfway to its goal of raising $8 million. It plans to spend that money on center-right Republicans who face a triumvirate of deep-pocketed conservative groups — Heritage Action, Club for Growth and Freedom Works — and their preferred, typically tea party candidates.


Hopefully, they can get a few hedge fund billionaires to open their wallets to support this kind of group. I mean the Tea Party seems directly against their interests.

Call it the wrath of establishment Republicans and corporate America, always considered the best of friends. Since the Republican takeover of the House in 2010, they've watched the GOP insurgents slow a transportation bill and reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, block a treaty governing the high seas and stand in the way of comprehensive immigration legislation.

The final straw was the bitter budget standoff that partly shuttered the government, precipitated by Republicans like Amash and Bentivolio who enlisted early in the campaign demanding that President Barack Obama dismantle his health care law in exchange for keeping the government operating.

I think I might look into this Defending Main Street and send them a few bucks to get rid of the Tea Party rot that is affecting the GOP.