Tom McClintock: “The sheer size of spending is unprecedented, both in its amount and as a percentage of GDP.”

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.

Americans are sick and tired of being treated like second-class citizens in our own country.

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