With his hands pretty much tied, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is walking proof that GOP moderates will have to yield to radical groups in order to accomplish anything. Although the speaker always knew defunding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is basically impossible, he has deftly given Tea Party Republicans a chance to fail at that very effort.  And fail they will. 

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