“Some people have said Rep. Tom McClintock is defensive, thin-skinned and humorless,” writes Dan Morain in this morning’s Bee.
“They’re wrong, I think. He is witty and loves practical jokes. Why else would he take time from his busy schedule to play a prank on someone like me?
“It all started a few weeks ago when I wrote a column that began: ‘Never one to build bridges, Rep. Tom McClintock has spent the better part of 30 years in office deriding the government that gives him his paycheck.’
“McClintock penned a straight-faced response, which my boss printed on these pages. I would have thought that would have ended the prank. Cut-up that he is, though, McClintock wrote a 1,200-word satire, hilariously titling it, “Deconstructing Dan Morain.”
“I recall English classes in which students much smarter than I deconstructed great authors. How silly to think anyone would deconstruct a hack like me. But there I was, deconstructed by the important, busy and, yes, funny Tom McClintock, on the front page of his tax-supported congressional Web page.
“‘Morain obviously believes the role of a Congressman is to plunder the national treasury,’ the congressman wrote, as if it were true. ‘Indeed, it is precisely this philosophy that now threatens to bankrupt our nation.’
The rest of the article is here.
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I read McClintock’s response to Dan Morain, and rather liked what he wrote on his House web-site. Basically, he pointed out that his constituents elected him as a conservative Republican, and he acts as a conservative Republican, and then spelled out why conservative Republicans do what they do.
I did not vote for McClintock when he represented me in Congress because he did not reflect my views on health care and immigration. But I always appreciated that he was a straight-shooter. Love him or hate him, what you see is what you get. Wish some of the GV politicians were as straight-forward about explaining themselves!
Tom McClintock puts a whole new meaning to the term, “Same Schtick, Different Day”….(and district)
My big beef with Tom is he has spent his entire career in government representing districts that he has no loyalty. The big knock against him in the state legislature from his So California district is he didn’t live there and for four years he didn’t live in CA 4th. When a representative and their families don’t have to use the schools, pay the local taxes, drive on the roads, or even bump into their constituents at the store the idea of citizen legislature loses great meaning. When that sort of disconnect is present true representation is hard to find.
I second Tony’s remarks about Tom.