National Republican leaders are toasting primary season as a smashing success over activist conservatives that has put the hard right on the ropes and given the Washington GOP the slate of candidates it wanted for 2014. Those victories, however, have come at a staggering cost — and Republicans are painfully aware of the price of putting down…

$23 million for two years worth of control of one of the two parties of the world-empire, my my.

The Avengers had a $100 million marketing budget.