circumstances. we made it through is what an ally close to mccarthy said. that was saying a lot considering everything going on this week which was basically the extremist part of the conference. you know, causing mccarthy a lot of problems, reminiscent of what john boehner was dealing with the rise of the house freedom caucus. i will spoil one of the great lines that michael steele gave to us. encapsulating what mccarthy successfully did. if your job is moving the minority in the house to the majority, you need to focus on addition, not subtraction. that means keeping all the frogs in the wheel barrow, even though some of them are pretty ugly. i think that's what you saw mccarthy trying to do this week. the uglies being some of this pretty violent and horrific rhetoric not being condemned. whether these tactics are good