Tom McClintock may have barely squeaked out a win in a congressional district where Republicans hold a 15-point voter registration advantage. But he is clearly savoring his new speech-making perch in Congress.
McClintock, of Northern California's 4th Congressional District, is aggressively attacking Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on global warming. And the man who loves to quote historic figures from Churchill to Jefferson is now quoting himself to take on President Barack Obama's economic agenda.
On Schwarzenegger, McClintock arose to demand that the federal government hold firm against California's efforts to impose stricter emissions standards for automobiles.
"I rise to urge the president not to waive the federal law on emission standards that is currently protecting Californians from Gov. Schwarzenegger's crusade to save our planet by destroying our economy," McClintock said, adding: "So I would respectfully suggest to the president that California's economic folly is not something that he should be copying."
McClintock also attacked both the Bush and Obama administrations for pushing hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending to bail out the economy.
"This proves what I like to call 'McClintock's Second Law of Political Physics,'" he said, adding later, "The more we spend on our mistakes, the less willing we are to admit them."
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