Noah Rothman: McCarthy and McConnell pursue sharply different leadership strategies with the Republican conference. McCarthy treats his members with kid gloves. McConnell rules with an iron fist.
to force Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to resign by holding up civilian nominees to Pentagon posts and for Hawley’s support for Scott’s challenge to McConnell. Both McConnell’s and Hawley’s offices deny that the senator’s departure from Armed Services is the result of reciprocity. If that’s true, however, it still suggests that Hawley is willing to do what must be done to restore collegial relations with the minority leader.
Such a gesture would hardly be remarkable. Indeed, this is how effective and competent congressional leaders preserve good working order. Senate party leaders lack any enumerated constitutional authority. Leadership’s authority is largely a function of party politics, and the privileges that flow from that office to individual members are leadership’s prerogative.
Unlike McConnell, McCarthy sacrificed his ability to wield some of these tools. To secure the speakership over the objection of a few recalcitrant Republicans, McCarthy gave in to a number of demands. Most of changes sought by the mutineers were designed to make the body more small-d “democratic,” which perhaps sacrifices some discipline but only in service toBut that’s not all to which McCarthy agreed.
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