Speaker Kevin McCarthy is having a tough week as he realizes that maybe Nancy Pelosi really was a disciplined genius by comparison. “It’s hard to pass anything in this place,” McCarthy joked to reporters, as news that the continuing resolution deal hammered out over the weekend by Republican leaders was facing serious headwinds from the far right. “We started out in a five-seat majority. I got one member who’s now resigned, we’ve got a couple of members who are out as well. Anything we do is pretty tough.”