To Representative Tom McClintock
Dear Representative Tom McClintock, You won your reelection and you probably feel pretty good, as you should. It was a tough race, harder than any since your first. I am …
After Action Memo
My neighborhood near Yosemite is pretty much decorated with handwritten signs thanking firefighters. They saved our community. They saved my house. This is my sign. We weren’t here …
Where Does He Get This Stuff?
Maybe our Congressman figures if he says nonsense to a Hard Right Fake News outlet nobody will notice. A couple of days ago he said this to Breitbart: “Now Jerry …
You Are Ordered to Appear
There are two obvious ways all citizens are expected to participate, but only one of them is compulsory — voting you can do or not; skip a jury summons and …
What Would Abe and Teddy Do?
A Democratic Member of Congress told me one recent day that his work load was a lot lighter because the in-charge Reeps don’t believe in government and consequently don’t do …
Stay Someplace Else in Las Vegas
Wanna know what happens next? Ask Michael Eggman. He’s right over there buried in money. Last election, 2016, Democrat Eggman mounted a credible run at Republican Congressman Jeff Denham of …
McClintock to Amtrak: Drop Dead
A few days ago while you were paying your taxes (or not, if you are perhaps quite wealthy or a large corporation), our Congress guy, Tom McClintock, was snuggling up …
Why Is Tom McClintock Helping Panama?
People as far away as Panama probably now know that the 2017 Republican tax cut worked spectacularly well if you were a large corporation or very wealthy. Panamanians would know …
Sorry About Nixon
Once upon a time there were two candidates in the general election for an important office and, as happens, feelings ran high. Not just as to between the two general …
Logging & Dams
Tom McClintock believes in 1) logging, and 2) dams. He’s the ideal Nineteenth Century guy; cutting down trees and damming rivers worked for California in 1880 so what could be …
Has Been
Fifteen years ago Tom McClintock — “anti-tax, anti-big government, anti-abortion, anti-gun control, anti- illegal immigration, anti-gay marriage” (said the LA Times) — was a rising star, a hot ticket on …
He’s Gonna Cut SS & Medicare
Sometime very soon our Congressman, Tom McClintock, will vote to cut Social Security and Medicare. It is what he believes and what he has promised. And after nearly ten years …
Is Arnold Schwarzenegger wrong? We should ask Congressman McClintock.
The Governor/Movie Star said the other day on CNN that his party, the Republican Party, McClintock’s party, is ‘dying at the box office.’ Presumably McClintock doesn’t agree. So let’s review …