Are all the phone calls and emails from his Sixth District constituents complaining about the activities of Elon Musk and his DOGE boys getting to Congressman Cline?
After making several calls to Cline’s office (202-225-5431) about Cline and others in Congress relinquishing to an unelected billionaire their responsibility to control spending, one constituent received the following letter:
Quite a change in tone from the long-winded and unpersuasive letter defending Trump, Musk and DOGE that many of us received earlier in the month. This was the letter he posted on his X account, where he whined that he was “fed up” with hearing from people in his district about Musk and DOGE.
But think of this latest letter as an effort to quiet the deluge of negative feedback Cline is receiving from constituents, and not as any change in Cline’s sycophantic approach to the Musk-Trump administration.
Just today he posted this on his X account:
In other words, keep the calls coming.
Cline Watch 
A few thoughts in response to this Cline Watch post…
It’s disappointing to realize that Mr Cline apparently thinks his constituents are not interested enough or intelligent enough or curious enough to read or communicate on the X platform. Were it not so, he might not casually reveal what he’s fed up with what we think is important enough to say to the person elected to speak for us in the US House of Representatives.
Comments by an elected official such as the one cited in the opening paragraph of this post suggest that America First/MAGA/Freedom Caucus politicians treat X as their exclusive sandbox for expressing thoughts that are offensive to constituents and other citizens who are not aligned with these ideologies or are otherwise independently minded.
American democracy and its foundational constitution are likely the biggest DEI experiment in human history.
“I value your thoughts and will take them into consideration should legislation concerning this matter come before me in committee or on the House floor” is a meager demonstration of “I value your thoughts.” It’s tantamount to saying “If your concern happens to drop in my lap in the course of performing my congressional duties to the minimum degree, I’ll give it a listen.” If that consists of representing our district, we could find thousands upon thousands of fellow citizens who would be capable of representing us with equivalent—or greater—effectiveness.
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