After losing the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Richard Nixon held a news conference.

It became known as the last news conference.

It set in motion a tradition that henceforth, when people are retiring from politics under duress and stress, their true

character and personality shows up and shines through. And yesterday, it was the case for

Kevin McCarthy, defenestrated and humiliated after 269 days of craziness

as the Speaker and Name Only of the House of Representatives. Kevin McCarthy unveiled himself

the way that political narcissists do.

There's always a tell, and it's the use of the word I.

I, I, I, I.

Now, Kevin McCarthy's last news conference held more grievance and more ludicrous moments than can be counted in this short

response. But we'll do a few, at least do our best to try to capture the essence of it.

Let's start with Kevin McCarthy speaking to, yes, America's children. To any child that are listening and who are coming to visit the Capitol,

this is a place I want you to visit.

I liked opening the Capitol back up again.

I liked taking away the metal detectors.

I liked committees being able to work.

I like people being able to visit.

I hope you like being able to be back in like people being able to visit. I hope you liked being

able to be back in. I think it was important that members actually show up to work as well.

You know, to paraphrase Lou Gehrig, he said, I might have been given a bad break, but I truly still consider myself to be the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

There's no other country that you could rise to be the 55th speaker, not get an internship, and be able to fight for the American public.

Self-awareness, it is said, is a gift.

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