The bottom line? Republicans lost. Republicans won.

It never does good thing for your party when you wet your pants and flee in terror, as House Speaker John A. Boehner (R.-Ohio) and his “leadership team” ultimately did.

That said, notwithstanding declamations from the puppet press to the contrary, the showdown will probably help Republicans in the 2014 midterm elections. Why?

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