Tea Party Vows Future Fights as Republicans Assess Damage
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With each pull of a lever of power, Republicans sapped their own strength.
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio may have had little choice in the fight over Obamacare other than showing his unyielding faction of Tea Party members what their strategy would bring, right up to the point of a potential economic calamity, said Mike Murphy, a Republican consultant who has advised several presidential campaigns.