Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-CA 25th District) ceased to by my Congressman when I escaped the far outlying suburbs of Los Angeles 6 years ago, but I still get his constuent emails. About 2 hours ago, he sent the following:
What We've Achieved...
With all the frustrating gridlock in Washington, it is important to remember what we've achieved in our battle for a more effective and efficient federal government:
• For the first time since the Korean War, total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row.
• The most significant spending reductions in modern history – more significant than Ronald Reagan and more significant than BillClinton and Newt Gingrich.
• The Budget Control Act (BCA) was the largest spending reduction bill of the last 25 years (and perhaps ever) - $630 billion in savings over five years all from the spending side.
• The BCA was the largest deficit control bill since 1981 not to contain a penny in tax increases.
• Successfully protected 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase on a permanent basis, and ensured that almost all of the Bush tax policy was made permanent, including the death tax and lower rates on capital gains and dividends.
I will continue to keep you updated on information and developments coming out of Washington.
Sincerely,
Buck
Setting aside the question of whether or not the content of his email is accurate, doesn't it seem like he's sort of saying "
well, I know we haven't really acheived anything with this latest attempt of ours to... whatever it was we were trying to do, but look at all the stuff we did do"? You know, the kind of thing one says when one is getting ready to give up?
At any rate, fingers crossed.