Who Paid for Sheila Jackson Lee's Visit to Michael Jackson'’s Funeral?

CommentaryMagazine.com ^ | 07.26.2009 - 1:13 AM | James Kirchick -

[TexasCajun]

The most bizarre moment of the Michael Jackson memorial a few weeks ago at the Staples Center in Los Angeles had to be the rambling speech delivered by Sheila Jackson Lee, the joke of a woman who happens to represent part of Houston in the United States Congress. (At the time, Roll Call reported that Jackson Lee “has a history of making cameo appearances at funerals” and that her staff used to “cull the obituaries” to “find funerals” for her to attend.) There she announced that she would introduce a resolution on the House floor listing every single one of Jackson’s charitable contributions and lauding him as a “world humanitarian” (his generosity to various teenage boys was presumably excluded). Fortunately, Speaker Nancy Pelosi recognized that even this would be too much for the American people to take and put the kibosh on Jackson Lee’s scheme

[sportutegrl]

Love the pix of NOW demanding emergency contraception. Someone should tell them that you can’t get pregnant unless you have sex with a guy.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Is this a funeral?!

Liberalism digs our graves.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[GAB-1955]

Heck no! I want my astronauts to be competent and stable people.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[nufsed]

She has to go to Mars to retrieve the US flag she said the Apollo astronauts left there.

[theymakemesick]

DO NOT get between a reporter's camera and Sheila Jackson Lee!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Like her?

[GAB-1955]

I strongly disagree with you. We have a long tradition of electing jackasses to the House of Representatives. Sheila Jackson Lee's (literally) asinine behavior is a grand American tradition, including such gems as Preston Brooks, James Traficant, Gary Condit, Michael Myers, and many, many others. You don't have to fool all the people all the time... just the people in your district.

[bgill]

Taxpayers pay for her chauffeured one block commute from home to her Capital Hill office. Never mind that it's against the law for her to use public funds for that. She's banned from Continental Airlines for yelling and causing such a ruckus with her “don't you know who I am!” at the attendants for not giving her a first class seat when she'd paid for coach, um, make that the entire row because she was too good to sit by commoners. She's been voted the meanest congress person. She complains hurricanes don't get enough black names. She ranted about Texas not having any black colleges when right down the road from her Texas home is the predominantly black university of Prairie View A&M which admitted blacks 130+ years ago in 1878.

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2006/11/page/2/

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000%5C000%5C000%5C867aejst.asp

http://media.www.pvpanther.com/media/storage/paper286/news/2006/11/01/CampusNews/The-History.Of.Prairie.View-2438619.shtml

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“I love her hairdo!... a thing of beauty! :)”

LOL!!!

(laughing too hard)

[GAB-1955]

Like her?

Depends. :)

[GOPJ]

Why do I suspect the press - who would barbecue Palin if she did this - will collectively “yawn”?

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Oh thank you so much!!!

Looter Guy is also Peeping Tom Guy?

Too funny.

Thank you again.

You made my morning.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Oh wait!!!

I had not noticed he had stolen her cell phone or whatever it is.

A nasty Looter Guy indeed.

Thank you again.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

It was another beer. :)

[zeaal]

There are two things I don’t understand: 1) How the good people of Houston can continue to send this woman back to D.C. election after election and 2) How do people continue to live in Dallas and not demand changes at the corrupt Dallas ISD (they pay tons of property tax to the ISD)? Just can’t figure out either of those.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“She has to go to Mars to retrieve the US flag she said the Apollo astronauts left there.”

Yeah...what a brainy woman.

I have forgotten subject matter, but she also said that so and so had taken a 360 degree turn. She meant “180” degree turn.

Is this the same idiot who got on a plane at National (I know, I know, I just prefer “National”), decided she had to exit the plane for whatever, and when she tried to get back on they blocked her from getting on?

She kept screaming that she had left her purse on the aircraft. Hence, her purse was taken to the pilot who opened his window and dropped her purse on the tarmac then left.

I wish I had kept the story. It was too funny and fun.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Oh!!! : )

[Sunshine Sister]

I they were smart they would do Michael like John Wayne’s family did him. Burial location undisclosed and no marker for 20 years. The man got to rest in peace for a long time.