Rumble in CA11

78-year-old former California congressman Pete McCloskey is running to unseat House Resources Chairman Richard Pombo. It's sort of personal. McCloskey is a pro-environment Republican who helped write the Endangered Species Act in the 1970s. Pombo is an anti-environment whackjob Republican who has vowed to "update and modernize" the Act (if you know what I mean). Besides being generally in favor of liquidating the national and global environment.

McCloskey wants to start a series of debates with Pombo, but Pombo's office says "Pombo does not intend to participate in debates until he is facing a worthier opponent....'We might as well debate Austin Powers'... 'They're both stuck in the 70s.'" (AP via SF Chronicle).

Uh huh...stuck in the 70s...kind of like Pombo's tacky moustache... (above)