Fiscal Crisis Sounds the Charge in G.O.P.'s 'Civil War'

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, during a news conference with conservative Congressional Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Cruz and Lee stand as the Senate?s dynamic duo for conservatives, crusading against President Barack Obama?s health care law while infuriating many congressional Republicans with a tactic they consider futile, self-serving and detrimental to the party?s political hopes in 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, during a news conference with conservative Congressional Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Cruz and Lee stand as the Senate?s dynamic duo for conservatives, crusading against President Barack Obama?s health care law while infuriating many congressional Republicans with a tactic they consider futile, self-serving and detrimental to the party?s political hopes in 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

After the budget standoff ended in crushing defeat last week and the political damage reports began to pile up for Republicans, one longtime party leader after another stepped forward to chastise their less seasoned, Tea Party-inspired colleagues who drove the losing strategy.

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