GOP Crazies Sink Boehner

John Boehner couldn't get enough votes to pass his fiscal-cliff “Plan B” —which would have protected all but the richest Americans from tax hikes—so he had to pull the measure from the floor.  The speaker may bow to his own crazies, but the president shouldn’t, writes The Daily Beast’s Robert Shrum. Plus, John Avlon on how the GOP imperiled Boehner’s speakership, and more coverage of the fiscal-cliff countdown.

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