One of the big questions coming into the new Congress was how would the existing GOP power structure in the House assimilate the big tea party freshmen class.
Brian Beutler reports for us on some very important developments over the last couple of days that don’t bode well for Speaker Boehner, who is trying to hold his caucus together by satisfying the tea party desire for spending cuts without embracing a politically ruinous budget that would make a government shutdown look like child’s play.
