Jack Kingston: “If this newfound embracing of reform by the liberals in this House were so genuine, where was it during their long years…”

“If this newfound embracing of reform by the liberals in this House were so genuine, where was it during their long years of domination of this institution, their complicity with the forces of big government and the forces that would always use the same tired equation, the answer of tax-and-spend, tax-and-spend, tax-and-spend. Where was that commitment? And make no mistake. If we retreat, one can imagine a new liberal majority coming to this institution, having learned its lesson in what through misleading claims and the politics of fear and the complicity of many liberals in the journalistic endeavors might wish to take place here, they would turn on this institution and that notion of reform in a heartbeat. Their notion of reform would be as the actions taken by ancient Rome against the Carthaginians.”