I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and all the while I assure he and anyone who will listen that I am very sympathetic of his plight and I am willing to do everything I can to help.
McClintock criticizes government policies hindering job creation in the energy sector.
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In this country, we don't have Americans--or old Americans or new Americans; we just have my fellow Americans.
When we were at the Yuma border a year ago we talked to a group of rank and file Border Patrol agents and one thing I said is, look, we are the Congress. We cannot enforce the laws. We write laws so what laws do you need us to write?
Even if this was not happening, the mere perception of it is enough to destroy public confidence that the vote will accurately reflect the will of the American people.
Of course, the leftist lawfare didn't start here. I think it started when the Democrats used the IRS to target Tea Party volunteers for harassment and intimidation in advance of the 2012 Presidential election.
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