WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican Kings — who, for different reasons, voted against party leaders’ last failed attempt to prevent President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul from taking root — personify a growing split within the GOP over both ideology and strategy.

“It’s a temporary alliance,” New York’s Peter King said upon finding himself teamed with 11 other House Republicans in voting against Speaker John Boehner’s bill that conditioned keeping the government open on delaying the “Obamacare” law’s requirement that millions of people start buying health insurance.