Kevin McCarthy is gone! What's next?

But he deserves no praise.

The normally rational Times columnist Gail Collins, writing Tuesday about Speaker Kevin McCarthy: “Now if he gets tossed out as House speaker by the right wing, he’ll go down in history as the guy who sacrificed his career for the common good.”

Well, he was just tossed out. But Kevin McCarthy has as much to do with the common good as the lizard my cat ju…