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No matter what happens to House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) effort to pass his bill through the House, the fight to bring conservatives on board for a debt-ceiling increase will be remembered as the moment when the top blew right off the boiling hot kettle of long-simmering tension between Tea Party purists and the old guard. This week the fight broke out into the spotlight from behind closed doors and Republicans began to eat their own again with gusto. It's angry and on the record. And Boehner's warning to holdouts in the House GOP to "get your ass in line" or House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) order to "quit whining," earlier this week weren't even the beginning of it.

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