Tom McClintock: “If we thin the forests, they are healthy; if we fail to thin them, they are ravaged.”

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.

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?

What I'm hearing back is you don't do anything. You shrug your shoulders and then send another batch of kids out to another group of sponsors' homes.

In this country, we don't have Americans--or old Americans or new Americans; we just have my fellow Americans.