Outside the Beltway

Quote of the Day, Party Discipline Edition

Alex Knapp · Friday, February 18, 2011 · 1 comment

“My preference, I suppose, would be for parliamentary leaders to actually physically whip members of congress into line (willingness to withstand lashing being a decent proxy for preference-intensity) but barring that the House’s tradition of iron-fisted rule-based discipline is a great model.”
— Matthew Ygelsias