Excellent! He may be a good guy, but he was already knee-capped in his ability to be an effective Speaker.
Washington (CNN)House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has dropped out of the race to succeed House Speaker John Boehner, in a shocking move that reflected his inability to gather the support of the Republican caucus.
Word from a family member that works in the House is that he lost support for a couple reasons:
He wasn’t quite crazy enough for the ultra right;
He told the truth about Benghazi, and didn’t buy into the far rights set of “facts”.