Posted on 12/20/2011 2:29:05 PM PST by ColdOne
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said Tuesday that President Obama "absolutely" should use his executive power to continue the unemployment benefits and payroll tax cut extension and said she hoped to discuss the option with the White House later in the day.
"It is extraordinary, don't get me wrong. But I'm feeling the pain of the constituents I left [at] home," Jackson Lee said, speaking on the progressive Ed Schultz's radio show. "I consider this a crisis. I consider leaving Americans without unemployment insurance for January and February a crime. I consider not extending the payroll tax cut ... a crime."
Jackson Lee slammed the move by House Republicans to call for a House-Senate conference as a "ridiculous procedural calamity."
House Republicans called for a vote on the motion Tuesday, which passed without any Democrat votes.
"This is what got thrown in our face, not even the right to regular order," Jackson Lee said, blasting House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for not bringing to a House vote a Senate-passed bill that would have extended the payroll tax cut for two months.
"I hope Speaker Boehner will put aside the special-interest shackles, the backsliding, backstepping of his caucus," she said.
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We could solve world overpopulation...
We could solve world hunger...
We could solve the US political dysfunction...
Just sayin’
Thanks to activist Judges she is in a protected district.
No matter how stupid she is she will be re-elected.
“Lee tried to denounce the Tea Party as racist at an NAACP meeting, but in the middle of it she forgot the word for sheets, and condemned them for wearing, “uh, clothing with a name.” Which is exactly how most of the rest of Congress refers to her.”
LOL! I’ll remember that one.
She’s pandering to her anointed hero Barrack!! </sarc>
Too bad our friend Michael Berry is “out of the office” or Queen Shelia would be his topic of conversation for tomorrow.
~ Larry Elder, "The Ten Things You Can't Say In America"
Sheila’s alter ego is Cynthia McKinney.
Just imagine if congress-morons Sheila Jackson Lee and Hank Johnson were to hook up and produce a kid or two. The stupidity factor resulting from such a joining would be off the charts.
That one left a mark alright!
LLS
Is she still taking the tax-payer paid limo the 3 blocks to work every day?
0dumbo should flap his ears to fly to Mars and straighten up that flag we planted there too, Sheila.
Lee has called for improved relations between the United States and Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, which she characterizes as a friendly nation. Toward that end, she has called for the U.S. to lift its ban on selling F-16 fighter jets and spare parts to Chavez.
Not only stupid but dangerous.
The woman is an idiot. By the same logic Obama could dissolve the legislature.
She is trying to appeal to her vase. She makes good money she could care less about them but she somehow fools them into thinking she cares.She is as big a con as the devil himself.
I'm sure Roosevelt knew he wouldn't last 5 minutes if he did this.
I meant appeal to her base lol not her vase.
How does the “payroll taxcut” help the unemployed?
Amazing how the Democrats are exploiting this gimmick.
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