Apoplectic Dem. Congresswoman: Gov't Shut Down is 'Like Bombing Innocent Civilians

“It’s time that the District of Columbia told the Congress to go straight to hell,” a fiery Eleanor Holmes Norton (D -DC) told MyFoxDC.

Norton represents the District of Columbia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D -DC) was on fire when she spoke to FOX 5 Morning News Thursday about how Washington, D.C. residents are being treated as work to avoid a government shutdown continues.

“We are absolutely outraged. This is the functional equivalent of bombing innocent civilians,” she said.