The Club for Growth has released their "Freshman Vote Study" of how the new GOP congressmembers have been living up to Tea Parties ideals (clubforgrowth . org/freshmanvotestudy).

As it turns out, dragging the U.S. where most people really don't want to go is very difficult: 36 out of 87 Republicans who were elected in 2010's landslide sided with the Club 2/3 of the time or less.

The biggest transgressor was David McKinley of West Virginia: he only sided with the Club's position 37% of the time. He failed to "Cut energy subsidies", "Strike funding for NLRB", "Cut Amtrak grants", "Cut most continuing appropriations spending 5.5%", "Roll back most spending in the bill to 2006 levels", "Limit Davis Bacon", support free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea, and several more.

Even borderline-crazy extremist Allen West of Florida wasn't extreme enough for the Club: he only sided with them 64% of the time.

Meanwhile, good-on-immigration Lou Barletta of Hazleton, Pennsylvania fame only sided with the Club 47% of the time. One of his sins was failing to "[c]ut Botanic Garden funding by $3 million".

The Club for Growth can generally be considered to be on the side of the high immigration Right; compared to the costs of illegal immigration, $3 million is pocket change.