Tom McClintock: “This is not a matter of special protections for journalists or public officials. This is a matter of the Fourth…”

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?

These are people who promised their constituents not to raise their taxes. And those five no votes just voted for the biggest tax increase in American history.

Yet, you did so anyway after you were warned by the case manager.

You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You shall now give way to better men.