Club Clubs 'Anti-Free Speech' GOPers

The Club for Growth is the best ally Nancy Pelosi could hope for -- at least on the 527 bill.

The Club -- among the most feared and effective conservative interest groups -- is on a tear.

The Club's government affairs director, Andy Roth, put all his energy into the bill's defeat. And the Club, like most other grassroots/grasstops conservative groups, keyvoted the legislation, too.

BTW: Also doing lobbying (behind the scenes): what's left of the America Votes coalition, which doesn't want to be turned into an ACT-like "George Soros" bugbear for Republicans.

In the end, the efforts came up nine votes short. The GOP leadership held open the vote until they corralled enough yays. Prospects in the Senate are murkier.