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For weeks, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) tried to be the kind of speaker he wanted to be, with dreams of negotiating a big budget deal with President Obama. On Friday, he became the kind of speaker he had to be, yielding to rebellious tea party conservatives and altering his bill to raise the debt ceiling to avoid a humiliating defeat.

But that was hardly a resolution of the crisis. It was a victory ? on his fourth try ? that underscored the gap between the parties, as the bill was immediately scuttled in the Senate.

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