House GOP’s ‘War of the Roses’

Published March 4, 2015 10:00am ET



House Republicans, who seemed so happy together when they started the session in January, now appear to be trapped in a bad marriage filled with distrust, miscommunication and mutual accusations.

With the very public defeat for conservative House Republicans who wanted to defund President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, the family dysfunction has boiled over into a public scene — and many Republicans say they’re fed up with uncompromising insurgents for disrupting the party’s unity.

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