There's an important detail to understand about #USPolitics : the Senate leaders don't have nearly the power we're told they do.

However, you can see the alignment of interests to promote that myth: the leader gets a feather in his cap while other senators get to duck responsibility for their (in)actions, blaming those pesky leaders.

Today's drama in the #House over #McCarthy strikes me as members of the lower chamber trying to glom onto their own version of that myth, just in a stupider way, as befitting a lower chamber.