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...
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.
"May I ask them to take some cotton out of their ears, because in actuality, the president extended his hands of friendship," she said. "I don't want to hear the fact that the president is divisive. The president is leading, and he's led well."
Jackson Lee suggested lawmakers should take inspiration from President Lincoln’s leadership during the Civil War.
"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?"
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Never seen a slave- free or not- dress like this one. Wonder how much that cinnabun cost her to keep up? Most in Houston do not like her one bit, and she is the butt of so many jokes.
ReplyDeleteI'm embarrassed to say she represents Houston!
DeleteShe only represents PART of Houston
DeleteThe Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln was back in 1863. If only Sheila Jackson Lee knew how to read, she could've been freed earlier.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not mistaken, she is 187 years old, so maybe she's telling the truth!
DeleteShe looks pretty good for a 165-170? year old woman.
ReplyDeleteWonder what keeps her looking so young.. must be the B.S.
ReplyDeleteWow, has it ever crossed her mind that the Republicans were responsible for the freeing of slaves? The democrats were okay with letting it go on. Why should the republicans bow to a party that has repressed people???? She should understand history a little better before she pops off at the mouth. We all have principles and if she can't understand giving in to a smothering Pres, for it to all be his way she doesn't understand where he is going with everything, She can be a welfare slave now.
ReplyDeleteBreaking News: Sheila Jackson has been freed from her captors.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't want to hear "the fact" that Obama is divisive.
So she recognizes the claims of him being divisive as "fact"
Open mouth, insert foot
This is an insult to actual slaves that the men who gave their lives to free them.
ReplyDelete"I don't want to hear the fact that the president is divisive."
ReplyDeleteSo she does not want to hear a fact. She claims herself it's a fact.