Kevin McCarthy Eyes the Exit

New York Times: “Over the past two months, McCarthy has given the life of a rank-and-file member a hard look and discovered it to be a painful existence…”

“These days, Mr. McCarthy, famous for his preternaturally sunny California disposition, has been hard to cheer up… He has also struggled to make peace with the idea that it’s time to go, even as California’s Dec. 8 filing deadline to run for re-election draws near and his colleagues expect him to leave.”