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I refer you to Pundit Review's retrospective

3. Georgia's Aisle Bird – Right There!! (Neil Boortz, 9/21/01) There she was, the ridiculous Cynthia McKinney, right there on the aisle for Bush's speech last night. It's really become somewhat of a joke.

OK – what's an aisle bird? This is someone who makes sure they get a seat on the main aisle of the House chambers in Washington when the president is scheduled to make a speech. They know that the president will walk down that aisle before the speech, and walk up that aisle after the speech – and be on every broadcast and cable network while he does it. If you can be sitting right there, you will be seen shaking hands with the president and holding a little discussion with him as he walks buy.

OK, here's the hard part. To get a seat on the aisle you have to show up at the House chamber at lease five hours before the speech begins. That means Cynthia (who is a Democrat from Georgia, by the way) had to show up at around 4:00 Thursday afternoon and just sit there (you can't send an aide) and wait for five hours. As long as you're going to be on Capitol Hill, you could be spending this five hours in your office doing what the taxpayers pay you for. The taxpayers don't pay you to plant your ass in the view of television cameras for a presidential speech. I believe this is about the ninth time the "Cutest Little Communist in Congress" has staked out that seat. That's a lot of wasted hours for a little tube time.

Congressperson Lee only went along to keep McKinney company from time-to-time and took up the mission when McKinney was kicked to the curb by the voters.