This week, John Boehner took on the tea party and steamrolled it.
It was a cathartic experience for the Republican House Speaker, who finally stood up to the movement that has been pushing him around for three years, recently coercing him into shutting down the government for 16 days in a fanciful quest to defund Obamacare.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=208530