A Pay Check for Me, But Not for Thee - Congresswoman Refuses to Give Up Pay Check During Shut Down

A federal government shut down is all but certain.  The new house rules do not allow enough time for the house to vote on a new piece of legislation to fund the government for the balance of the fiscal year and the senate will not vote on the house bill that passed 45 days ago.  Many federal employees will not get paid during this shutdown.  The men and women who are serving in our military will have a check cut from DoD on Saturday that will pay them for the first week of the month and will not be paid again until the federal government re-opens.  We have families that have loved ones serving in Afghanistan risking their lives and they will not paid.  Many of these families do not live on base.  They have mortgages to pay, food to buy, and need gas in their cars.  The president has stated he will not sign a bill that will continue to pay the troops and fund the wars.  Some members of congress have said they will forgo their paychecks while this is going on.  Congresswoman Linda Sanchez doesn't agree.  She lives paycheck to paycheck.  On a salary of 174,000 per year.  That is almost 4K per month after taxes (depending on the rate she pays, I deducted 46% for federal and state, after all she is from CA and they pay high taxes).  Poor baby, the military families would love to make that kind of money.  Oh, and that doesn't include her husband's income. CA's 39th must be so proud. 

Border Protection is The Berlin Wall? Sanchez Seems to Think So

Congresswoman Sanchez sits on the border security committee.  Well, want to take a guess why we can't built? 

Build the fence, secure the border, than you will find that many will go along with immigration reform.  It really is not that difficult.

Jon Stewart on Rick Sanchez

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Quote of the Day - Debra Saunders Edition

Meanwhile in California, GOP gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman is getting grilled because she didn't assume that her immigrant housekeeper was a liar.


In 2003, the Social Security Administration sent Whitman and her husband a letter that indicated the Social Security number given by Nicandra Diaz Santillan did not match her name. Rather than interrogate Diaz and demand another look at her papers, the couple asked Diaz to clear the problem up. I mention this simply as the latest example of the double standard when it comes to issues involving minorities: No matter what they do, conservatives can't win and liberals can't lose.

Debra Saunders San Francisco Chronicle on Rick Sanchez calling a liberal a bigot

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CNN Fires Rick Sanchez - Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

CNN has released a statement saying that Rick Sanchez is no longer with the network.  This coming from after Sanchez was interviewed and called Jon Stewart and Colbert bigots.  He tried to soften his words even after the interviewer gave him the chance to change the subject but Sanchez wasn't having any of that.  He kept it going and now he no longer has a job. 

The man has a complex, he thinks everybody is not only after him, but they do it because he is Hispanic.  He doesn't seem to realize that it may have something to do with him. 



If you listen to entire thing instead of just this clip he actually said that he thought of other people's feelings before reporting anything. Was he being fair to other hispanics when he called them sellouts for working for Fox?

Funniest Line of the Day - Linda Sanchez Edition

Linda Sanchez, Congresswoman from California, on the Arizona law on illegal immigration.  When all else fails, cry racism. 

“They’re not accidental or one person’s crazy idea, There’s a concerted effort behind promoting these kinds of laws on a state-by-state basis by people who have ties to white supremacy groups,”

“It’s been documented. It’s not mainstream politics. (Legislators) are being approached by folks, who are front organizations for white supremacist hate groups. They propose the language of these bills and get people to carry these bills in the state legislatures,”