Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy is not getting a lot of sympathy from some people in his hometown of Bakersfield, California, as he prepares to quit Congress a year before the end of his term. McCarthy became Speaker after a lengthy series of votes in January and was forced out by House Republicans in early October. On Wednesday, he announced he will leave Congress at the end of the month. In an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal, he wrote “I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways. I know my work is only getting started.” “I will continue to recruit o…