There is something wrong – something terribly wrong – with the people in Orange County, California. This once solid bastion of conservatism has now elected the two sinister Sanchez sisters, Linda and Loretta, to Congress.
This morning we had the story of Linda Sanchez complaining that despite a $174,000 annual Congressional salary, she was so strapped for cash that she would be unable to live without her paycheck during a government shutdown.
Not to be outdone, her older, even more sinister sister Loretta now checks in with her own tale of woe.
Michael Liu: Representative Sanchez? Representative Sanchez? All right, to both of you, are you proud about the way this process has been going as people watch the two of you now debate some of the issues?
Sanchez: They’ve cut things like, I worry about wildfires in my district, they’ve cut the funding to that…
Grimm: If I can, if I can…
Sanchez: As the summer season comes up…
Grimm continues to struggle to get a word in.
Sanchez: They’re really cutting important issues; things that happen in our national forest…
Grimm: Because we’re broke. The one thing that my colleague has failed to say…
Sanchez: We’re broke because of Bush.
Grimm: We’re broke because of Bush?
Sanchez [talking over Grimm]: Broke because of Bush. Broke because of Bush. Broke because of Bush.
Grimm: You can continue to blame Bush, but President Bush is no longer in the president and hasn’t been the president for a couple of years now.
National forests in her district? We’re very familiar with her district and can’t figure out where they might be. CA-47 is as urbanized as a district can get. According to Wikipedia, “California’s 47th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California based in Orange County. The district covers the cities of Garden Grove and Santa Ana and parts of Fullerton and Anaheim, and includes Disneyland.” The closest thing to a forest in the 47th are the plastic trees on the Matterhorn ride at Disneyland.
Oh, one other thing. If there were a wildfire, which is highly unlikely in Orange County in April, it would be handled by city and county firefighters who are unaffected by any federal shutdown.
Apparently, “Sanchez” is the Spanish word for “liar.”
H/T: NewsBusters.org, Wikipedia
