Tom McClintock, R-Calif.
You again seem to try to take us, those you work for and represent, back to school. However, you have missed some history lessons and an important read/speak/write lesson: Context.
First, let me respond to part of your lesson presented on the house floor regarding H. Res. 489. If you indeed believe that what unites us is "respect for the rule of law, and the uniquely American principles of individual liberty, constitutionally limited government and personal responsibility," I ask you to call on these principles in your assessment of our president. Can you in all candor say that he models or mocks these things you, and I, hold dear? If not . . .
As I have previously written to you, as a member of your constituency, I am convinced that we are suffering from a so-called leader who does not act in concert with the principles we espouse. Not a day goes by that a majority of Americans can see and hear and read evidence that contradicts what does unite us. I do not address how he hurts many of us. Save that for next time, or re-read my last messages.
It is long since due that you stood up and led, rather than followed, in a fight to preserve what you have tried to remind us of. Let your actions follow your words, your lesson, your reminder to all of us . . . not to say that all of us needed that reminding.
I agree with the conclusion to your remarks; except they are not in essence a reflection of what recently transpired to prompt H. Res. 489. The issue was not and is not patriotism.
This spin of yours asks the question whether you have evidence that the people the president was referring to are unpatriotic. If they are or were, perhaps we could learn the lesson again from you--your words would then not be just wasted hot air. However, people who have lived as long as you and I have know that "go back to where you came from" is at the least intolerant and more precisely and barefacedly--in this case--racist.
I suggest some homework for you in case you come up short trying to discover unpatriotic actions or words by the so-called "squad" your president has singled out. There are members in the body of which you are also a member who have at hand chapter and verse in the history of racism and civil rights and civil speech in this country. Talk with them. Go to school, unless you already have learned and rejected this more accurately contextualized lesson. (If that be the case, you are lost and without sanity, credibility, integrity.)
Belly up, bud. It is long overdue for you to exercise your individual liberty, enforce our system of constitutionally limited government and take personal responsibility to remedy a situation that we have endured for far too long. Step into the middle of the aisle and call for a stop to this aberrant cancer in our midst. You know what I am talking about and don't need a lesson from me.
Comment. I don't think he has the intellect or integrity to represent me. For the context for this message to him via his website, see his remarks about "the Squad", July 2019.
See also
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/19/715266657/republican-rep-tom-mcclintock-discusses-mueller-report?t=1564314344841
Hopeless to try to get him to do his job.
