[DemforBush]

I guess I’m surprised that that Breitbart’s writers are surprised that McCarthy had a hand in this. I mean, party Whips *do* tend to be the guys who keep tabs on individual members, and dole out party discipline to an extent (though less so in our system than in the UK, etc.) It makes sense that he would be the one Boehner went to for drawing up the list.

Not saying I *like* it, mind you. Just sayin’ that it isn’t surprising McCarthy was the go to guy here.

[StAnDeliver]

"I guess I’m surprised that that Breitbart’s writers are surprised that McCarthy had a hand in this. I mean, party Whips *do* tend to be the guys who keep tabs on individual members, and dole out party discipline to an extent (though less so in our system than in the UK, etc.)"

But McCarthy had made nice-nice with Tea and Tea allied freshman; in retrospect, in exactly the same way Steny Hoyer herded the Blue Dogs into a pen, and we all know what happened to the Blue Dogs in 2010...