He made commitments to do what House Republicans demanded in the way of action, reform and transparency. But, according to Russ Vought, he broke specific commitments not once, but twice, and in fact sided with Democrat traitors to block promised legislation. "No significant policy priorities have been achieved. None."
The significance of his ouster: No establishment pol from either party thought a party leader would ever be held to account for his business-as-usual treachery. Corrupt McCarty was, and this has sent shockwaves through corrupt Washington.
"In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. "
-- James Monroe, speech to the US Congress on December 2, 1823