Orange County's Best and Brightest (NOT!)

Congresswomen Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana), who narrowly beat out Bob Dornen in a fraudulent election some years ago, thought she was going to make a big splash in a Defense Department hearing a couple of days ago. She was going to confront the dreaded Secretary Rumsfeld and make him look like a fool. Well, maybe not. Here's the exchange that made the TV news shows that night (from Best of the Web Today):

Sanchez: Unfortunately, as I said, this committee has had a hard time assessing where we really stand with the Iraqi army as an effective fighting force. Over the past year, we've received incredibly widely fluctuating estimates of that. And I think you have a real credibility problem on this issue.

Rumsfeld: Fluctuations of what?

Sanchez: The fluctuations of--the numbers that you bandy around about how many troops we really have out there that are Iraqi police, et cetera, et cetera. . . .

Rusmfeld: Now, you say we bandy around numbers. They're not my numbers. I don't invent them. They come from Gen. Petraeus. . . .

Sanchez: I have Petraeus's numbers. They're different than your numbers, by the way.

Rumsfeld: Well, what's the date? They aren't different because these came from Petraeus. He may have two sets of numbers, but they are not different if the date's the same. The date on my paper here is Feb. 14. What's yours?

Sanchez: Dec. 20.

Rumsfeld: Not surprising there's a difference.

Can't we run anybody in the central Orange County district that can beat this ninny?