(Kenny Holston | The New York Times) House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after the House passed the debt limit bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 31, 2023. McCarthy's enthusiasm for the actual vote-counting, handholding work required of his position, and his lack of both Gingrichian egomania and get-me-out-of-here impatience, was key to the debt-limit deal, Ross Douthat writes.