Texas’ national treasure speaks on history and the current state of government spending.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) urged her colleagues to reach a compromise to prevent spending cuts through sequestration, arguing that government programs are already as lean as they can be.
“We’re at the bone almost, and sequester, that is across-the-board cuts, will literally destroy us and put us in a recession,” she said on the House floor Wednesday.
She called on Republicans to meet Democrats at the negotiating table and rejected the idea that President Obama delivered a partisan State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Our Houston dynamo’s understanding of economics, and history, needs a little work.
“I stand here as a freed slave because this Congress came together. Are we going to be able to do it today to free America?”
Congress didn’t “come together” to free the slaves. Southern members of Jackson Lee’s Democratic Party seceded from the union to preserve slavery, triggering a civil war. Republican President Abe Lincoln freed the slaves, in whose number Lee never numbered as she was born nearly a century too late, via the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Lincoln’s proclamation was eventually added to the Constitution in the form of the Thirteenth Amendment, after Democrat actor John Wilkes Boothe assassinated Lincoln, in December 1865.
Not that the Hill bothers to correct Rep. Jackson Lee, who also thinks the US won the Vietnam war, and that NASA has landed humans on Mars.
someone please give her the biggest live microphone you can find. She needs lots more national exposure….she could be the next presidential candidate…..
The problem is that there are a lot of idiots who would believe anything she says. They don’t know history, economics, or anything else either.
How does she remember to breathe?
She has instructions tattooed on her ankle:
As beholden as she is to handouts from The Man, I submit that she is a slave. Not freed.
Bingo.
Excellent comment, thank you.
– Dorner.
Are you sure Sheila represents Texas? She sounds just like some of the clowns that my beloved Florida sends to Washington.
So after the Sun King spends over an hour smacking around the Repubs during the SOTU, they send out sweet, sweet Sheila to call all Repubs slave owners? Why, sure, belly up to the bargaining table!
Racially gerrymandered district. Makes you wonder about the caliber of people she ran against…
She’s not a freed slave, she’s still in chains and just an overseer on the Massah’s liberal plantation. Let her depart from the liberal line like black conservatives have done and let’s see then…not that she’s capable of the minimal thought required to want true freedom for everyone not just privileges for herself.
Shelia Jackson Lee is the poster child for gerrymandering – she is an absolute disgrace to the people who voted her into office. Would someone please tell her to shut up and sit down. She is that special kind of stupid.
I am in no way defending SJL. I have the unfortunate pleasure of having her represent me in Congress.
However, I do want to clarify a few things here. There were many issues why the South wanted to leave the union. Slavery really wasn’t one of the main reasons. The big reason was the tariffs that the North wanted to impose.
It should also be that Lincoln didn’t truly free the slaves. West Virginia broke off from Virginia and joined the union as a SLAVE STATE and the Emancipation Proclamation did nothing ending slavery in WV.
The 13th Amendment passed after Lincoln’s death. Also, the Spielberg movie got very wrong was the idea of how much Lincoln fought for it. At the meeting the movie portrays, Lincoln actually told the South he would drop the 13th Amendment if they would reenter the Union peacefully.
There is also a problem comparing Republicans and Democrats from that era to their current manifestations. A Democrat from that era would most likely be a Republican today and vice versa. (With some notable exceptions)
There was also a major political shifting during the Election of 1896 and also with the rise of the Progressive Era.
I realize that her brain is petrified but I did not know that she was that old.
The real question is, could this creature be any worse than obama.
The answer is that she would be a major upgrade.
This political creature is in so far over her had that she is in danger of drowning in her own excretement.