That’s not useful. Now he gets to crush the careers of those who votes against him. They’re finding themselves out of committees, they’ll soon find they can’t get any legislation sponsored and they will not be invited to cosponsor. And 1 year from now they’ll find themselves opposed in the primaries by people with surprisingly deep pockets and thick rolodexes.
Congress is specifically setup to run like an old boy network. He’s not nettled, he’s empowered. By crushing these guys he gets to show others the price of rebellion. He just gained more ability to make the party vote as a block. It was a good attempt, they almost pulled it off, but they didn’t. And now the emperor is stronger and his opponents are weaker.
Someone like that deserves to be shamed. Is this the only vote that can “set him in a corner with a dunce cap”?