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Former Examiner reporter Mark Twain was a keen observer of the foibles and peccadilloes of America’s elected representatives. In his autobiography, he said: “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
Twain, of course, never met Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, and based his opinion upon the caliber of politician on the national stage at the end of the 19th century. But we can reasonably assume that his views would hardly be attenuated by watching Rep. Lee in action. The Houston Democrat has represented Texas’s 18th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 1995. And her oddball public statements have almost become legendary.
On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Rep. Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong. She has also urged better relations between the U.S. and Venezuela, which she describes as a friendly nation. She said the U.S. should reconsider its ban on selling F-16 fighter jets and spare parts to that country.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (Photo: debbieschlussel.com)
This week, Rep. Lee gave a speech at the NAACP convention, and told an enthusiastic crowd that the Tea Party participants were nothing more than Ku Klux Klan members without their robes:
All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing [applause], uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party. Don’t you be fooled. [voices: "That's right.", applause] Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down the aisle and speak as a patriot because you will not speak loudly about the lack of integrity of this movement. Don’t let anybody tell you that those who spit on us as we were walking to vote on a health care bill for all of America or those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids were too tight in her hair had anything to do with justice and equality and empowerment of the American people. Don’t let them fool you on that [applause]….
Certainly the folks in Houston thought they were getting an intelligent, educated representative, when they elected Lee to follow in the footsteps of Rep. Barbara Jordan. Lee obtained a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1972, followed by a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1975. Jackson Lee moved to Houston after her husband, Dr. Elwyn C. Lee, took a job at the University of Houston. Her husband now Vice President of the University of Houston. With her Polysci degree from Yale, you’d think she would know that the K.K.K was founded by southern Democrats.
And, while we’re on the subject of just how stupid Sheila Jackson Lee really is, we recommend readers take a look at Rep. Lee’s recent speech to the Congress concerning the present level of cooperation between “North and South Viet Nam:”
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Comments
Wow.
Just wow.
Many members of the Tea Party and the Republican Party ARE the KKK without their robes!!!!
Yvonne,
DEMOCRATS started the KKK. Get some facts before you run your mouth, please.
I admit that I did not read the article, I just came by to answer the question in the headline. I base my answer not on the article, but based on years of observation of Congress in general and in doing so, viewing Ms Jackson Lee on numerous occasions. The answer to the question...
"Is Sheila Jackson Lee really that stupid?"
The answer is a resounding ...YES!
SJL is indeed as boneheaded as she appears in her video clips, and she's racially biased, to boot. Having said that, her constituency in Houston loves her because she lives up to the low standards that they continue to set for her. Houston has a talk-radio host named Michael Berry that does an excellent job of keeping the world informed on her shenanigans. Give him a listen sometime on http://www.ktrh.com/pages/michaelberry.html
God, forbid you read six whole paragraphs!
Can we see HER school records?
can i get some grape juice, soda, or some orange juice please.
It's soder. : )
Hahahahaha! I don't care who ya' are, THAT's funny!
We will see if she is elected next time. It came out that voter fraud of more than 30,000 votes were cast by home which had 6 or more voters at a single residence. What about other kinds of fraud? I think she will be defeated in 2 years, overwhelmingly.
Sometimes, I really want to ask her husband if he is ever embarrassed by her statements
Of course he is! that is why no one had ever heard from him.
She's a real piece of work and an embarrasment to our city and state.
Having been living in a suburb of Houston for just under 50 years, I have observed everyone who has occupied that seat since I became politically aware during Barbara Jordon's time as a Congressperson. I spent my youth in that district and was a screaming liberal union member before my awakening during Reagan's term in office.
After Barbara Jordan, Mickey Leland who's only real clain to fame is that he was killed in a plain crash in Africa. He was a marxist who would have loved the current political climate. After Leland died, the district gave us Craig Washington who would have been just as famous as the Congresswoman due to his stupidity.
Washington was such a piece of humanity that Queen Shiela beat him in a democrat primary where all she had to do was show his lack of concern for the district. Now Queen Shiela has been a boil on the butt of the Texas Congressional delegation for almost 20 years because the democrats refuse to offer a candidate with an ounce of active gray matter between their ears.
The Congresswoman will go down as the worst Texas Congressperson in history without a doubt. We in Texas claim to have the biggest and best of everything (and we do), but that includes moron congresspersons like Queen Sheila.
What an idiot!!!
Unfortunately, I was redistricted (gerrymandered) into her district in 2000. I am very sad to say, she is my Congresswooooooman. She has to be the worst person in Congress and she is absolutely horrible to her constituents. I cannot fathom why they keep re-electing her. That is as embarrassing a fact as she is embarrassing to the city of Houston.
What a complete moron! And I resent the racist comment about all Tea Partiers being KKK members. Had that type of statement been made by a white person you know Quanell X would be all over the air waves demanding a public apology and that they resign from their seat. I am so sick of the double standards! Open your eyes and wake up.. it's 2011!
she is the butt of so many jokes here in the Houston area. She gets elected because of her innercity base from the east side. We've actually come to the realization that she is harmless and more valuable as a piece of entertainment, abeit embarrassing for us here in Texas. I'm just irritated that she gets that nice salary and all the benefits....but ultimately she can't do any harm as long as she's the butt of everyone's jokes and nobody takes her seriously!
SJL is an embarrassment to Texas. The UH and it's school is a hotbed of blue collar working class people that have changed Houston in a good way. She on the other hand stands for stupid and longevity. She does not and has not cut it for a long time. She's nothing short of an IDIOT.
There is only one reason why see gets elected.
PART #
They killed a hell of a lot more whites, and at that a hell of a lot more Southerners than Yankees. The Yankees knew that they would have serious trouble if they abused Southerners again, so they were kept in check. After Reconstruction, the KKK was disbanded officially by the very man who founded it. Therefor the KKK ceased to exist. Any organization that existed after 1877 is not valid, is not the KKK, and slaps good Southern people in the face by their sickening and slanderous use of Confederate symbols.
PART TWO
The original KKK was founded by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest to combat injustice against Southerners by occupying Yankees and their cohorts that included carpet bagger's (jerks from up north who came here to financially prey on the South) and Scalawags (Southerners who turned for their own benefit). Yankees did indeed purposefully pit black against Southerners by putting them in positions of power in the spirit of retaliation. Therefore, there were lynchings of blacks after the war by the _REAL_ KKK. But the _REAL_ KKK was not a white supremacist organization.
PART ONE
Author: get your facts straight. The modern and currently existing loosely affiliated groups of terrorist and traitors that call themselves the Klu Klux Klan are NOT the original KKK. The original KK was indeed founded by Southern Democrats. But don't be a history twisting idiot. That is for liberal neo-commies to do. Speaking of which, the Democrats were at that time conservatives, and the Republicans were liberal and incredibly corrupt and setting to ruining the nation and profiteering on the wounded South.
To answer your question "Is Sheila Jackson Lee really that stupid?", the answer is YES!!!!! And to call her stupid is an insult to the word STUPID. Mr. Lee must have feel like hanging himself every time his pride-and-joy opens her mouth. Good graces....
Gerrimandering is what keeps people like her in office.
Harris county was one of the only counties in Texas that voted for the traitor in chief. Is it a shock this complete idiot has a place there too?
My father was from Alabama, my mother from Florida; and back in the day when the Repubican party was one to be proud of, in the days when that bigot racist George Wallace was a Democrat, my parents were Republicans. But racist southern Democrats started shifting to the Republicans once Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So what used to be the hateful Democrats now became Republicans; and now, in more recent years, the Republican party allowed itself to be hijacked by Bible-thumping bigots. My whole family is Democrat now that the haters have moved to the other side of the room.
Looks like you underestimated the stupidity of the voters in the 18th Congressional District.
I think she belongs to the same race-mongers as Al Sharpton, the Revvverrand Jackson [which he isn't] and numerous others ...that defy true wisdom and logic. gheezzz !
She is retarded.
An IQ (Them be YT demon tests) I would guess in the low 80's.