Oh, Sheila
When last we saw Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee in action, she was pimping her Michael Jackson congressional resolution at his Staples Center memorial orgy.
The race-baiter from Texas met with constituents and demonstrated her responsiveness to the public by…interrupting the town hall to take a cell phone call.
HELLO?!?!
From the Houston Chron:
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee assured a sometimes raucous crowd at a town hall forum Tuesday that she is listening to their concerns about health care reform legislation.
At the same time, the Houston Democrat denied she had attempted to dodge opponents by giving short notice and not widely publicizing her town hall meeting after other Democrats in Congress confronted angry crowds at similar gatherings with constituents across the country. Sparks and physical confrontations at one meeting last week made national headlines.
More than 100 people attended Tuesday’s forum at a Fifth Ward community center.
When the meeting was late starting, the crowd became rowdy with one spectator loudly asking, “Who is against the public option of socialized medicine?” after which hands began to shoot into the air. Then someone who favored the public option yelled, “The free market has failed!” which drew a chorus of “boos.”
Several law enforcement officers then arrived and stationed themselves around the room.
“We need to make sure we get on national news,,” Lee quipped, quelling the crowd by having a college opera student sing the national anthem. Occasional chastising punctuated the rest of the meeting, some comments accusing her of wasting time when introducing a state politician who had joined the crowd and other jeers when she talked on her cell phone while a constituent posed a question to her.
“In Congress, we have to multi-task,” she explained.
Yep: Avoiding questions, not reading bills, and trying to stifle dissent all at once takes a special kind of public servant.
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LMAO, I was just listening to Tammy Bruce talk about this.
Of course she doesn’t care about her constituents. Why should she? If you don’t vote for her you’re a RACIST!!!!
/sarc
Allo! Allo! Is this the person to whim I am speaking please!
Cripes this is something else.
Shelia phone Racist
That she deigned to offer a Royal Audience to the peasants should be enough for them, in her mind.
Powerful is the mental cocoon that enables those most in need of a dose of humility to double-down on arrogance instead.
It was Michael Jackson on the phone.
Yes, it is important to be able to waste taxpayer money several different ways at one time, eh Ms. Lee?
Time for new employment for Sheila. What’s up, Texas? Stop foisting this elitist cow on Americans.
Too much?
DEAR DEMOCRATS YOU’RE PUSHING TOO HARD!
“…I never got an invitation…”
That’s because she doesn’t care what you have to say white boy!
Did anyone check to see if she actually had a call? I think it’s a Fisher-Price phone…
It has been proven that multi-tasking does not save time. One is better off paying attention to what is at hand and completing it before moving on to another task. Now I know why nothing is getting done in Washington.
Whether it’s de Toqueville who said it or somebody else I strongly disagree.
I deserve better than this. On the cell phone like a teenager in the mall…
When is this beeeee-aaaach up for re-election? This video is a goldmine for whomever runs against her.
That’s a good point spaceycakes. I sometimes kid around with who ever I am having a conversation with, I will hit my volume control to make my cell ring. Then I will say “I have to take this I am waiting for a very important call” the person I am with will say “Oh go ahead”. Works everytime.
Translation: “If we had a few more hands, then we could more effectively serve [ourselves], by sticking them in more pockets than we are now able.”
“Thank you for your sensitivity towards those who do not look like you…” Jackson says in response to a question about government trust. This wasn’t a race related question, but Queen Jackson had to inject race…out of touch much?
She had the phone on voice record. She babbles to herself and then plays it back like a psychosis conversation. “I love you Sheila. I love you too Sheila. Don’t let the people get you down, sista. Oh, no I won’t. I’ll get all crazy on them if they do.” City subsidized street people in Seattle and San Francisco would understand this Jackson-Lee phone etiquette.
please, please, please tell me Ragspierre was there…
With any luck, I’ll get to meet her at tonight’s town hall.. She so well represents me.. Sorry rest of the country..
Her challenger is John Faulk assuming he wins the primary again. (Not sure if he will be opposed)
She answered, because the caller id display was “Mother Ship”.
#13 Sorry, but her district is deeply in the Dem tank, and they see her racism more as a qualification for her office than as a liability.
Under various civil rights laws that have been passed since the 1960s, states, counties and cities/towns in the former Confederacy have had to reserve “safe” seats for racial minorities by carefully drawing the districts, or face review by a Federal judge which can include the judge drawing districts to match his/her needs.
For example, Irving, TX, chooses its city council by at large voting. Recently, a Hispanic candidate who could not win an election found a Hispanic federal judge, who ordered Irving to change its system to voting by precincts to guarantee the small part of South Irving that is majority Hispanic gets to elect a Hispanic councilman.
When the Republicans finally got to reverse the gerrymandering done by decades of Democrat rule of the state legislature, they had to be careful to leave “safe” Black and Hispanic districts gerrymandered, or face likely lawsuit, and possible re-districting done by a Federal judge, possibly a Clinton or Carter appointee.
So Sheila Jackson Lee is in a safely Black district, and holds her seat for life.
What a minute. Wasn’t Obama professing a belief in the free market just yesterday when he was arguing that we need competition among insurance companies to bring costs down? I don’t see how you reconcile the views of Obama and his supporter.
Talking on a cell phone while a constituent is speaking….what.a.tool.
I thought the sign in sheet for a town hall meeting was an interesting concept. I wonder if the list was faxed to the Snitch Czar afterwards.
On the other hand, it works both ways. Hey, Obama, have sign in sheets at your town hall meetings and make the list public. Then we can decide if your meetings are filled with astroturfs and plants.
Won’t do it? Didn’t think so. The most transparent administration ever, not.
How absolutely IGNORANT of her. Who is running against her? lets send this piece of nastiness home to think about the way she treats her bosses.
I cracked up when I saw this! Hilarious. Yesterday, Michael Berry was filling in for Mark Levin. Michael is from Houston and says that Sheila Jackson Lee is, essentially, a funeral groupie. She makes her staff give her a list of upcoming funerals when she’s in Texas so she can crash them, feign sympathy for the family and use the microphone to pimp her pet projects to her constituents. Talk about a captive audience! She’s brilliant, I tell you…BRILLIANT!
Sheila Jackson Lee Town Hall 8-11
by David Jennings · 08/12/2009 1:58 pm
Up popped a girl that said she was in the eighth grade and told Rep. Jackson Lee that it was hard out in the real world for people like her just beginning their lives. She explained that she had been shopping for insurance for her and her 9 month old boy and that, thus far, she hadn’t found anything “worth her money”. I wanted to puke, knowing that there was a 100% probability that Medicaid had already payed for the birth of that child and for all of the other expenses involved. Instead of bemoaning that fact, Rep. Jackson Lee consoled and empathized with her, saying that was exactly the type of thing that needed to be fixed. Puke again.
She reminds me of that other “brain surgeon”, Cynthia McKinney.
this is what 80 i.q. gets you when you are a loud mouthed racist black female who CAN’T BE CHALLENGED ON ANYTHING. PC gives us these morons, because no white person can say stfu and blacks don’t know she’s an imbecile. i know i’m a racist. but in my lawyer suit a few years ago i asked a sociologist on the stand if you were facing the death penalty for murder, wouldn’t you throw a few question on an i.q. test if the state forbad you to fry the “mentally challenged”. this compassionate moron looked at me and said how would they do that, they are mentally retarded. i asked her to ask me three questions that were typical, and voila, i proved i am mentally retarded in open court, so my racism is legally excused.
Don’t forget “looking for the spot where the astronauts landed on Mars.”
Who says affirmative action recipients aren’t skilled?
People please! You’re being much to hard on Sheila. Give her some credit for not being behind the wheel while on the phone.
Yes, taking the call was poor form on her part.
It’s illegal to drive and talk on the phone for a reason. Can someone please explain to me how is it ok to be this rude? How was the local congresscreep able to pay attention to her constituent and talk on the phone?
Perhaps she should master the walking/chewing gum thing first? Oh, wait, how about learning to read and understand proposed legislation, THEN cast a vote?
I see she didn’t wear her red suit. Nobody there that she wanted to grab their attention and impress, I guess.
Interesting: if you go to her house.gov website and click on Healthcare – Part I or Healthcare – Part II this is what you get:
The requested page could not be found
Especially when she touts:
She’s not my rep but I don’t have much better with Gene Green.
Can you hear me now??
This is the behavior you get when ignorant people decide to elect pond scum to the house of representatives.
Too rude and arrogant to even be funny.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Politicians can’t get much colder and unfeeling towards their constituents than that.
She is TYPICAL of our elected reps, sad to say. How come some of our fellow Americans actually believe that if you hold high office you are somehow “smart”? She epitomizes everything that is wrong with our so-called elected reps today.
jamesgreenidge–oh no, it’s definitely not funny.
mrcakes would’ve had to restrain me if I had been there…
Always fake drama–always.
Oh, also–there was a woman at the townhall that lied about being an MD–must watch video.
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Shaila Lee Jackson is one of my state’s so called “representatives” and is a disgrace to Texas.
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However, she fits right in with the rest of our “democratic” / liberal / socialist / statist / marxist / communist congress as they make themselves rich at our expense.
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I nominate her for the CYNTHIA MCKINNEY MOST WACKED OUT PRIZE. However, she will have to work hard to “nose out” SanFranNan for first place.
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John Bibb
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No time to listen to the concerns of the cancer survivor, but will make time to go to LA for the Jacko memorial, and to propose a resolution to memorialize this pedophile in Congress.
sheila, multi tasking, bet she can’t even spell the term. arrogance from a gutter dweller making herself seem important, after all she was elected by her equals.
I checked her phone records: She was ordering a pizza…..
What has failed is a federal government that has become so all-encompassing that it has crushed the free market in America. I got into it the other day with an ignorant “you’re afraid of Change” Obama-follower who railed about “what good have rich white people done the past 200 years?” and how bad it was for the middle class because of these “rich white people.”
As best I could, I informed this person that BEFORE 200 years ago, there was NO SUCH THING AS A MIDDLE CLASS, and that it was because of free market capitalism that a middle class came to BE. I went on to inform this ignorant person that before 200 years ago, every man, woman, and child was ruled by the dictates of kings and czars, but it took the founding of OUR COUNTRY to show the way of a government BY, FOR, and OF the people, and it shouldn’t matter what the color of their skin was.
This person’s response to what I said was general admiration and no refutation whatsoever. It gave me hope that at least SOME of the Obama crowd can be reached.
Sheila talked about “making amends” due to some of the heinous acts by our Federal government in the past—well, she can start by GETTING THE HELL OUT OF OUR DAILY LIVES AND BUSINESS! We don’t need for them to “make amends” by taking MORE control of our lives than they already DO.