If higher and higher spending and bigger and bigger deficits and massive government stimulus spending was the root to prosperity, I would have thought that the George Bush administration would have ended with a new golden era for the American economy.
McClintock questions the effectiveness of government stimulus during Bush's presidency.
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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?
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.
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