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1. #1
   On August 12th, 2009 at 2:35 pm, JHSII said:

   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

2. #2
   On August 12th, 2009 at 2:36 pm, stillontheroad said:

   Allo! Allo! Is this the person to whim I am speaking please!

   Cripes this is something else.

3. #3
   On August 12th, 2009 at 2:39 pm, Wade said:

   Shelia phone Racist

4. #4
   On August 12th, 2009 at 2:39 pm, Regulus said:

   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.

5. #5
   On August 12th, 2009 at 2:41 pm, Paul Revere said:

   It was Michael Jackson on the phone.

6. #6
   On August 12th, 2009 at 2:43 pm, dan708 said:

   “In Congress, we have to multi-task,” she explained.

   Yes, it is important to be able to waste taxpayer money several different ways at one time, eh Ms. Lee?

7. #7
   On August 12th, 2009 at 2:45 pm, GDSuffern said:

   Time for new employment for Sheila. What’s up, Texas? Stop foisting this elitist cow on Americans.

   Too much?

8. #8
   On August 12th, 2009 at 2:46 pm, Laree said:

   DEAR DEMOCRATS YOU’RE PUSHING TOO HARD!

9. #9
   On August 12th, 2009 at 2:50 pm, spaceycakes said:

   “…I never got an invitation…”

   That’s because she doesn’t care what you have to say white boy!

10. #10
    On August 12th, 2009 at 2:52 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Did anyone check to see if she actually had a call? I think it’s a Fisher-Price phone…

11. #11
    On August 12th, 2009 at 2:53 pm, Jarhead said:

    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.

12. #12
    On August 12th, 2009 at 2:55 pm, Drained Brain said:

    “In a democracy, people get the government they deserve…”

    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…

13. #13
    On August 12th, 2009 at 2:59 pm, ErinF said:

    When is this beeeee-aaaach up for re-election? This video is a goldmine for whomever runs against her.

14. #14
    On August 12th, 2009 at 3:01 pm, Jarhead said:

    On August 12th, 2009 at 2:52 pm, spaceycakes said:
    Did anyone check to see if she actually had a call? I think it’s a Fisher-Price phone…

    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.

15. #15
    On August 12th, 2009 at 3:05 pm, right_on said:

    “In Congress, we have to multi-task,” she explained.

    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?

16. #16
    On August 12th, 2009 at 3:11 pm, AmericaFirst said:

    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.

17. #17
    On August 12th, 2009 at 3:11 pm, spaceycakes said:

    please, please, please tell me Ragspierre was there…

18. #18
    On August 12th, 2009 at 3:14 pm, Zippy_Slug said:

    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)

19. #19
    On August 12th, 2009 at 3:16 pm, Flyoverman said:

    She answered, because the caller id display was “Mother Ship”.

20. #20
    On August 12th, 2009 at 3:17 pm, Vic said:

    #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.

21. #21
    On August 12th, 2009 at 3:34 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    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.

22. #22
    On August 12th, 2009 at 3:39 pm, BuckeyeSam said:

    Then someone who favored the public option yelled, “The free market has failed!” which drew a chorus of “boos.”

    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.

23. #23
    On August 12th, 2009 at 4:07 pm, Southpaw said:

    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.

24. #24
    On August 12th, 2009 at 4:53 pm, Jaded said:

    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.

25. #25
    On August 12th, 2009 at 4:57 pm, denver republican said:

    “In Congress, we have to multi-taskI’m a dumb-&%$#,” she explained.

26. #26
    On August 12th, 2009 at 5:29 pm, vickisoup said:

    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!
    

27. #27
    On August 12th, 2009 at 7:14 pm, prendad said:

    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.

28. #28
    On August 12th, 2009 at 7:15 pm, zorro said:

    She reminds me of that other “brain surgeon”, Cynthia McKinney.

29. #29
    On August 12th, 2009 at 7:29 pm, cheapseat said:

    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.

30. #30
    On August 12th, 2009 at 8:31 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Yep: Avoiding questions, not reading bills, and trying to stifle dissent all at once takes a special kind of public servant.

    Don’t forget “looking for the spot where the astronauts landed on Mars.”

    Who says affirmative action recipients aren’t skilled?

31. #31
    On August 12th, 2009 at 9:23 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    People please! You’re being much to hard on Sheila. Give her some credit for not being behind the wheel while on the phone.

32. #32
    On August 12th, 2009 at 9:30 pm, zyzzyg said:

    Yes, taking the call was poor form on her part.

33. #33
    On August 12th, 2009 at 9:35 pm, JustAThought said:

    …she talked on her cell phone while a constituent posed a question to her.

    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?

    “In Congress, we have to multi-task,” she explained.

    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?

34. #34
    On August 12th, 2009 at 11:36 pm, atxcowgirl said:

    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:

    Thank you for taking the time to visit my official website. This website serves as a virtual office. Here you can stay informed about what I am doing in Washington, access information about bills and legislative issues, learn about the services that are available to constituents of the 18th Congressional District, and keep in touch so that I may better serve you. I hope you will find this website useful and informative.

    She’s not my rep but I don’t have much better with Gene Green.

35. #35
    On August 13th, 2009 at 1:11 am, ronbotex said:

    Can you hear me now??

36. #36
    On August 13th, 2009 at 9:40 am, prendad said:

    This is the behavior you get when ignorant people decide to elect pond scum to the house of representatives.

37. #37
    On August 13th, 2009 at 10:37 am, jamesgreenidge said:

    Too rude and arrogant to even be funny.

    James Greenidge
    Queens NY

38. #38
    On August 13th, 2009 at 10:57 am, DBNinKY said:

    Politicians can’t get much colder and unfeeling towards their constituents than that.

39. #39
    On August 13th, 2009 at 11:44 am, FirstSkirt said:

    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.

40. #40
    On August 13th, 2009 at 12:19 pm, spaceycakes said:

    jamesgreenidge–oh no, it’s definitely not funny.

    mrcakes would’ve had to restrain me if I had been there…

    Always fake drama–always.

41. #41
    On August 13th, 2009 at 12:52 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Oh, also–there was a woman at the townhall that lied about being an MD–must watch video.

42. #42
    On August 13th, 2009 at 12:57 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    Shaila Lee Jackson is one of my state’s so called “representatives” and is a disgrace to Texas.
    ***
    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.
    ***
    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.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

43. #43
    On August 13th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, Lucifer Jones said:

    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.

44. #44
    On August 13th, 2009 at 3:24 pm, no2pcbs1 said:

    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.

45. #45
    On August 13th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, LOBOMAN said:

    I checked her phone records: She was ordering a pizza…..

46. #46
    On August 16th, 2009 at 2:51 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    Then someone who favored the public option yelled, “The free market has failed!”

    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.

47. #47
    On August 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    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.