"We almost won. But then you heard the bones breaking, with the arms that were twisted."

“We almost brought the rule down,” Bachmann said Thursday. “We almost won. But then you heard the bones breaking, with the arms that were twisted. But we almost won.”…

Scalise – a former chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the House GOP’s right plank — didn’t bring the hardline members into the fold with the spending bill, multiple GOP lawmakers said. That irritated conservatives even before the funding language was unveiled nearly a week later.

One Republican member said: “One of the reasons everyone is so pissed is they never reached out.”

“On the immigration debate [in July], they only listened when the bill was falling apart,” Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) said. “We ought to be doing things differently. They ought to be listening to all people … So I’m very frustrated.”