WASHINGTON — With tea party-backed first-termers calling the shots, House Republicans snatched political defeat from the jaws of victory in a year-end showdown over Social Security payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits.
ANALYSIS: Isolated on payroll-tax cut, House GOP blinks
Saturday, December 24, 2011 | 4:06 p.m. CST
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