Conservative firebrands want scalps, not hollow victories

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Ornery first-term Republican senators and bomb-throwing conservative activist groups are locking horns again with the Republican establishment.

Tea Party firebrands want to defund Obamacare by threatening to shut down the government at the end of the fiscal year. Other Republicans decry this as irresponsible.

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