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August 13, 2009
Jackson Lee: I Was Framed
Lies, damn lies...and really, really stupid lies.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, told CNN she had dialed into a Congressional hotline to get more details about a question that was being asked by a constituent at the town hall in Houston on Tuesday. House Democratic aides have set up a health care war room located in Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's, D-Maryland, office that is designed to help lawmakers answer questions about the legislation.So, the call was completely innocent, but the video was maybe doctored. Good grief. My three-year-old daughter's excuses for her bad behavior are more convincing, if only because the kid's first instinct is not to blame some dark conspiracy."It appears on the video — maybe it's a doctored video — but how I explain it is this: First of all, I take calls from my constituents, but that was not a call that I took," Jackson-Lee said. "I dialed the hotline number to get a better answer."
"It was not disrespectful because I was seeking information for the very town hall I was in," she said. "No offense was intended."
Watch the video for yourself. Is that a woman looking for "a better answer," or someone who just doesn't give a rat's rear end about the concerns voiced by her constituents?
Posted by slublog at August 13, 2009 09:21 PM
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Our dad said it best, "they don't care and they hold us in contempt"
I'm paraphrasing slightly but the point stands, once most politicians get to office, they no longer listen to the people, until it's election time of course.
Lee is no exception, she probably didn't want to be there, and it showed. Ignoring a question to answer a phone? Tacky. I don't see her as a Congresswoman much longer.
Posted by: coldmexican at August 13, 2009 11:11 PM
Our dad said it best, "they don't care and they hold us in contempt"
I'm paraphrasing slightly but the point stands, once most politicians get to office, they no longer listen to the people, until it's election time of course.
Lee is no exception, she probably didn't want to be there, and it showed. Ignoring a question to answer a phone? Tacky. I don't see her as a Congresswoman much longer.
Posted by: coldmexican at August 13, 2009 11:27 PM
Not disrespectful? She didn't say "excuse me" or "could you hold on a minute, I'm trying to get an answer to your question" - she just started talking on the phone. At times she turned her back on the person in the crowd. As for claiming that she was calling the hotline to get an answer, what was the question? The person in the crowd hadn't finished talking yet, so how did she know what to ask the hotline?
It's just another example of how they (and I include politicians from both sides of the aisle here) truly think they are above us (regular citizens). They're above us, more important than us, and they spend time listening to us at their whim.
Posted by: Jason Baugher at August 14, 2009 01:17 PM