Jackson Lee Steps Down From 2 Leadership Posts After Lawsuit. Democrats are eager to complain about anything the Republicans do but are rife to admit to any wrong doing on their part. When is Kamala Harris’ going to be investigated over the $400,000 California paid out for a sexual harassment claim during her watch as AG?
Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas is stepping down from two leadership positions following a lawsuit from a former employee who says her sexual assault complaint was mishandled.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, accuses Jackson Lee’s office and the foundation of retaliation after the woman was sexually assaulted by a foundation employee in 2015 and threatened to sue.
We knew sooner or later someone would say it. It was just a matter of who and when.
We knew sooner or later someone would say it. It was just a matter of who and when. The results are in and those of you who had Sheila “Today we have two Vietnams side by side” Jackson Lee (D-Mars) in the pool, come claim your winnings.
The Hill has the story:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race.
“I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president,” said Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. “Why is he different? … In the minority community that is question that is being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully? Why has the debt limit been raised 60 times? Why did the leader of the Senate continually talk about his job is to bring the president down to make sure he is unelected?”
We realize the Democrats don’t know much civics – for example, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-Fantasyland) thinks the 3 branches are President, House and Senate – but the debt ceiling debate is a legislative issue to be decided between the Democrat and Republican legislators, not Obama and the raaacists.
As for the leader of the Senate thing… Harry Reid did work tirelessly to bring President Bush down, but they were from different parties. But since President Obama is from Harry’s party … maybe Harry’s just a raaaaacist.
The Texas Democrat, who attempts to soften her public image by advocating for the visually impaired, has a completely different attitude when it comes to her own staff.
To paraphrase an old saying, there is none so blind as Sheila Jackson Lee.
The Texas Democrat, who attempts to soften her public image by advocating for the visually impaired, has a completely different attitude when it comes to her own staff.
Sheila Jackson Lee taunts Mona Floyd by asking, "How many fingers am I holding up?"
The Washington Times reports on Jackson Lee, which rhymes, coincidentally, with hypocrisy:
…a former top aide to the Texas Democrat, said the lawmaker’s public support for the disabled was nowhere to be found in her own congressional office when it came to the aide’s vision impairment. Mona Floyd, who served as the congresswoman’s legislative director, has monocular vision. She said she was told by Mrs. Jackson Lee in a private conversation within weeks of the hearing, “I don’t care anything about your disability.”
Our liberal friends may choose to interpret “I don’t care anything about your disability” as meaning “I choose not to judge people by their physical disabilities.” But they’d be wrong.
Another time, when Ms. Floyd, a lawyer, brought up her disability, she said another staffer told her the congresswoman had said, “I don’t give a damn about her disability.”
Harsh, Ms. Jackson Lee, harsh.
The accusations were outlined in a sharply-worded lawsuit filed recently in federal court in Washington, which seeks unspecified pay and compensatory and punitive damages. According to the complaint, Ms. Floyd, who did not return phone messages this week for comment, received reasonable accommodations for her vision disability when she went to work for the congresswoman in August 2007. But Ms. Floyd said in the court papers, the congresswoman became dismissive when she returned in February 2010 to become Mrs. Jackson Lee’s legislative director.
Short of starvation, we cannot think of a condition that would induce us to take a job with Sheila Jackson Lee.
“The representative regularly made these types of derogatory comments about the speed of Ms. Floyd’s work, which the representative knew was a result of her vision impairment,” the lawsuit said.
Despite her visual impairment, we trust that Ms. Floyd now sees Sheila Jackson Lee for what she really is.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said that investigators needed to analyze Christian militants in America because they too might try to “bring down the country.”
We haven’t heard a peep from the inimitable Sheila Jackson Lee for a few weeks and have to admit that we’ve missed the Texas Democrat’s unique brand of lunacy.
Well, never fear. You know she can’t keep from spouting off for too long. Like she did, for example, during Rep. Peter King’s House hearings into radical Islam.
CNS News graces us with Jackson Lee’s latest:
At a congressional hearing on Muslim radicalization in U.S. prisons, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said that investigators needed to analyze Christian militants in America because they too might try to “bring down the country.”
In an exchange with witness Patrick Dunleavy, the former deputy inspector of the criminal intelligence unit, New York Department of Correctional Services, Rep. Jackson Lee mentioned the case of a man who blew up an abortion clinic and proposed that this perhaps was an attempt to undermine U.S. law that allows a woman to procure an abortion.
“As we look to be informational, we should include an analysis of how Christian militants or others might bring down the country,” she said during the hearing. “We have to look broadly, do we not?”
Absolutely. We don’t know about you, but we’re sick and tired of those suicide bombing Baptists killing innocent women and children. We’ve had it with Methodists creating mayhem in the streets. And we look forward to the day when crazed Catholics stop flying airplanes into buildings.
Sheila Jackson-Lee answers the question, "What's your IQ, Congresswoman?"
Congratulations, Congresswoman Jackson-Lee. Your latest stupidity trifecta has now officially been completed.
CNSNews has the idiotic info:
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing about the individual mandate to buy insurance, Jackson-Lee said, “I would make the argument, one, that it [the individual mandate] is an incentive to do right – that it is not penalizing you because a penalty is punishment, and you’re not punished if you have health insurance, in fact.
“And so, you are in fact incentivized to have health insurance rather than take the negative, which is to suggest that because you have a penalty you’re being punished,” she said.
Jackson-Lee is incorrect, however, as the language of the law clearly states the following: “If an applicable individual fails to meet the requirement of subsection (a) [have government-approved insurance]… there is hereby imposed a penalty with respect to the individual, Section 5000A of the law reads.”
Another section of the health care law, entitled “Payment of Penalty,” stipulates that if an individual fails to carry a government-approved health insurance policy for any month during the year, they must pay a maximum penalty of $750.
In keeping with Jackson-Lee’s theory, we would like to announce she is smart, not stupid.
Sheila Jackson Lee is on the warpath. She’s not pissed off about any issues she should be pissed off about. No, she’s pissed off about one of Pepsi’s Super Bowl commercials.
Sheila Jackson Lee is on the warpath. She’s not pissed off about the deficit nor about our national bumbling during the Egyptian crisis nor about our porous border nor about any of the other issues she should be pissed off about. No, she’s pissed off about one of Pepsi’s Super Bowl commercials.
In fact, she’s so pissed that she took to the floor of the Unites States House of Representatives to excoriate Pepsi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dFuWADnpIg
It’s a commercial, Sheila. It’s a commercial for fizzy sugar water. It has nothing to do with selling good nutrition. That commercial would star Michelle Obama.
Of course, as we always feel obligated to point out in every Sheila Jackson Lee story, this is the woman who once asked a NASA administrator if a Mars rover would be able to take a photo of the American flag that Neil Armstrong planted.
Genius. Pure, unadultered genius.
By the way, here’s the Pepsi commercial that has Jackson Lee’s panties in a wad.
“What we will be doing is ignoring the people’s business of creating jobs and frankly putting ourselves in the role of a clogged toilet,” said Sheila Jackson Lee.
Some readers may say we’ve gone too far by calling Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee a piece of crap. But we’d say our only mistake was in cleaning up our language. Trust us, we’ll remedy that situation at the end of this story.
Sheila Jackson Lee is a one-woman Dumb-A-Thon
TheHill.com has the details:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said Friday that House Republicans were blocking the proper functioning of the lower chamber by debating a bill instructing committees to give closer scrutiny to regulations.
“What we will be doing is ignoring the people’s business of creating jobs and frankly putting ourselves in the role of a clogged toilet,” said Lee. “That means we are doing nothing. We are stuffed up.”
This is, of course, the same Sheila Jackson Lee who once asked a NASA administrator if the Mars Pathfinder had taken a photo of the flag planted there by Neil Armstrong. The same Shelia Jackson Lee who said that South Vietnam and North Vietnam are two separate nations now living peacefully side-by-side. The same Sheila Jackson Lee who once took a cell phone call in the middle of her own town hall meeting.
It’s no wonder Sheila Jackson Lee is concerned that Republicans are turning Congress into a toilet. You always fear a toilet when you have shit for brains.
Fox News host Neil Cavuto spent eight minutes with the Sheila Jackson Lee, the incredibly dense Democrat Congresswoman from Texas. Eight painful minutes trying to convince her that her defense of ObamaCare was flawed.
Pity poor Neil Cavuto. The Fox News host spent eight minutes with the Sheila Jackson Lee, the incredibly dense Democrat Congresswoman from Texas. Eight painful minutes trying to convince her that her defense of ObamaCare was flawed. Eight minutes Cavuto will never get back.
Cavuto and Jackson Lee disagree, but keep in mind that she once asked a NASA administrator if a Mars rover would be able to send back photos of the place where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted the American flag.
She’s a sharp one, that Sheila Jackson Lee.
NOTE: The freeze frame may make it look like these are the same videos, but they’re not. Watch both for the full, glorious display of Jackson Lee’s genius.
Stunning stupidity. Incredible ignorance. And a remarkable willingness to call damn near anything racism. Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson-Lee ably demonstrated all three on poor Ed Schultz’ MSNBC program.
Stunning stupidity. Incredible ignorance. And a remarkable willingness to call damn near anything racism.
Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson-Lee ably demonstrated all three on poor Ed Schultz’ MSNBC program.
Please allow us to introduce Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee to Sergeant Schultz. Since you both know nothing, you should get along just fine.
Special Ed was on one of his nightly rants about the unfairness of Rush Limbaugh’s success and how it can only be attributed to raaaaacism when he asked Jackson-Lee this question:
“Congresswoman, is there anything the African community can do about this? The comments speak for themselves.”
“I’m always committed to the First Amendment because as you well know,” Jackson-Lee responded. “You’ve been called Sergeant Schultz. I don’t know that to be your name. I’m a little sensitive to what that is to garner. Is that because you have a name that may be ethnically connected to being a Sergeant? I’m not sure what that is. I find that insulting as well.”
Would it be racist to point out that Sergeant Schultz was a character – a white German character – on the 1960s TV show Hogan’s Heroes?
Would it be racist to point out that Sergeant Schultz’ most famous line was “I know nothing” and that even if that is true, he’s a genius compared to Jackson-Lee?
Would it be racist to point out that it’s pronounced Lim-bah, not Lim-bow.
Seriously, Congresswoman, you should at least be able to pronounce the name of the guy you want to boycott.
Here’s lunatic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (S-Tx) sleeping like a baby during a speech by Keith Ellison (M-Mn), America’s first Muslim Congressman. Ssssssh. Don’t wake her up. She does far less damage when she’s asleep.
Here’s lunatic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (S-Tx) sleeping like a baby during a speech by Keith Ellison (M-Mn), America’s first Muslim Congressman.
Ssssssh. Don’t wake her up. She does far less damage when she’s asleep.
Sheila Jackson Lee has said some stupid things during her time in Congress, but she topped herself on Thursday when she said, “Today we have two Vietnams side-by-side.”
Sheila Jackson Lee has said some stupid things during her time in Congress, but she topped herself on Thursday when she said, “Today we have two Vietnams side-by-side.”
Lee was apparently preoccupied back in the 70s and didn’t hear the news that there is no more “North Vietnam” and no more “South Vietnam.”
And just wait until she hears about East Germany and West Germany.
