CBC recommends Sheila Jackson Lee for DHS
Yes, you read that right, the Congressional Black Caucus has recommended Sheila Jackson Lee to the President to fill the gap that will be left when Janet Napolitano leaves her post as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to an article sent to us by ROS from the Washington Times;
A letter dated July 25 and signed by Rep. Marcia Fudge, Ohio Democrat and caucus chairwoman, urges President Obama to consider Miss Jackson Lee for the position, calling the Democrat a “voice of reason” that the agency could stand to gain, the Houston Chronicle reported.
“Representative Jackson Lee would serve as an effective DHS Secretary because she understands the importance of increasing border security and maintaining homeland security,” the letter reads.
Yeah, because she thought her home planet, Mars, was where the Apollo mission left a flag, so she knows a lot about geography and borders and stuff. I think she complained because there weren’t any hurricanes with names of African-American women. Whatever that means. So she really has the important issues at the top of her agenda.
Personally, I learned while living in DC, if a woman spent more time on her hair than she did in the gym, there’s some drama coming.
By the way, the above photo is an actual TAH file photo. I took it when the IVAW was trying to convince Congress to defund the war in Iraq in 2008 – she was one of their greatest defenders, so yeah, she knows all about homeland security.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Wouldn’t that be “CBC”? Instead of “CDC”?
Just when you thought that J-Nap was as bad as it got….this fuckin’ lunatic???? Really???
As I said in another thread to MajMike about this, does the CBC hate the country this much or are they just trying to rid themselves of her? (And I rather like the CDC typo–Center for Disease Control. It fits beautifully.)
Could be worse….
http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Government/2012/04/23/rep_cynthia_mckinney.jpg
Well the only solace is that it is a reccomendation from some of her fellow Lunatics, not an actual proposal by the President…. No way in hell he could be that dumb to think she is capable, or that she would get past a confirmation hearing in the Senate.
Her record is too filled with ethics violations along with her apparent insanity that is ignored by the sheeple of her district, but would those be harder to ignore in a Senate Hearing.
PNag–CDC/CBC are one and the same, since Allen West got redistricted out of a seat, the CBC are all Dems.
Queen Shelia more insufferable than she already is? Whoda thunk it?
@3 I agree, Sheila Jackson Lee is indeed a disease on the face of our legislature, a more insidious virus I can’t imagine.
However instead of recommending the peter principle promotion, I would prefer the CDC concentrate on eradicating these types of viruses that infect a mind so deeply it can no longer function with reason or logic.
The same woman that thought that the Apollo mission landed on Mars….yeah, she’s qualified. Especially when it comes to “Homeland Security”.
Let’s look at a snapshot of her voting record…
AGAINST THE ANTI-TERRORISM ACT OF 2001;
AGAINST THE POST-9/11 ANTI-TERRORISM MEASURE KNOWN AS THE PATRIOT ACT;
AGAINST ALLOWING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO USE ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE TO INVESTIGATE SUSPECTED TERRORIST OPERATIVES;
AGAINST A BILL PERMITTING THE GOVERNMENT TO COMBAT POTENTIAL TERRORIST THREATS BY MONITORING FOREIGN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS WHICH ARE ROUTED THROUGH THE UNITED STATES;
AGAINST REQUIRING HOSPITALS TO REPORT (TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT) ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO RECEIVE EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT;
AGAINST THE REAL ID ACT, WHICH PROPOSED TO SET MINIMAL SECURITY REQUIREMENTS FOR STATE DRIVER LICENSES AND IDENTIFICATION CARDS;
AGAINST SEPARATE PROPOSALS CALLING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOME 700 MILES OF FENCING TO PREVENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ALONG AMERICA’S SOUTHERN BORDER;
AGAINST A PROPOSAL TO GRANT STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS THE AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE, IDENTIFY, AND ARREST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
And those are just the ones relating to “Homeland Security”.
@5, 10-15 years ago I would have said no way this is considered serious, but today? I don’t put anything past this President…just one more way to give the finger to the Senate and the American people.
She is a proven idiot. Sorry, was that racist???
rb325th: ‘No way in hell he could be that dumb to think she is capable’
RB, I know that you’re an optimist, but even I am not THAT optimistic. Bodaprez is exactly that stupid. How many times does he have to prove it to us?
“Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.”
Sheila Jackson Lee
July 2010
Congresswoman representing the 18th District of Texas, downtown Houston
Member of the Progressive Caucus
Member of the Congressional Black Caucus
Yep, she’s qualified….
So, who is running for the “Bubba white boy” caucus or the “Latino Knights Rights” caucus??
I suppose that if you oppose that candidate, the “R” word would be flung at you. (Redneck/recidivist/rube)
She’s Houston’s Kwame Kilpatrick – just hasn’t been caught yet.
Even if Barry thought the nomination was a good idea, there’s no fuggin’ way she’d get confirmed.
If she did, that’d be the last straw. I’d have to move out of the country.
This is an extremely bad idea.
I can only imagine Obama knows that, but we will see…
However, if she is overlooked, she will stir the pot over race.
Scary proposition.
I guess skin color qualifies you for the position?
Very sad, indeed.
This story is from “Duffelblog…right? Hello? RIGHT??? please?????
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@9 – no, she’d be an idiot whether she was white, purple, or polka-dotted. If she ever tried to get elected from any other district thn the one she has, she’d be one of those historical footnotes like “and the loser in this election was…”
@9 – Given the status of race relations that has diminished in this country lately – yes… your last comment was racist.
Keep in mind that whenever you disagree with people of color or object to their position or their stance on something, it is considered racism now.
Just an observation on my part.
Hurricane Shanwanaquawana?
I’m unlucky enough to live in SJL’s district, and believe you me, she’s a classic BO clone through and through.
This broad running DHS? I can’t think of anyone who is LESS qualified to be involved in national security than her. Her idea of “National Security” is that all her cronies get their place at the government trough. ARRRHGH!
At least it would get her fat arse out of Houston, though…
@#5, RB, don’t be too sure that Baracka couldn’t be that dumb. This is the guy who actually told the NYT that “First of all, as the economy got stronger during the course of my presidency, I had always committed to a responsible reduction in the deficit. I think that was the smart thing to do, the right thing to do, and good for our growth.”
I guess that I slept through our economy getting stronger, and the deficit getting cut from less than $6Trillion to $17Trillion and climbing.
@8 Thank you Mk75Gunner for the update on her rampant stupidity. Are you f@cking KIDDING ME! She is the dumbest of the dumb in congress and the CBC. The POTUS will affirm her before her old seat is cold. My 8 year old nephew knows more about this nation than she does (geography, where Apollo actually went, we have only ONE Vietnam now, etc., etc.,) I know politics are an ass holes game but this is an out and out racist appointment to appease the blacks. Can you imagine the state of affairs in HLS after she takes over and comes up with something like, “well Texas and California were part of Mexico once, I think!” What a liberal ass hat play this was. I am so pissed I need brain bleach to cleanse this notion out of my head. So we have digressed from Tom Ridge to this ass wipe. The future f@ck-ups for HLS are too much to even contemplate. I am writing my congressman next and offering my nephew as a candidate. At least he has A’s in geography, world history and American history. I know I have rambled on but the idiocy of this is something I can’t wrap my head around. She reminds me of the GA. congressman John Lewis who said “a hundred million slaves had been thrown overboard and sharks still to this day patrol the slave trade routes”. Same uninformed, pull it out of my ass sh!t we will get from Sheila Jackson Lee.
“The Fifth Amendment speaks specifically to denying someone their life and liberty without due process. That is what H.R. 2 does and I rise in opposition to it. And I rise in opposition because it is important that we preserve lives and we recognize that 40 million-plus are uninsured. Can you tell me what’s more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their Fifth Amendment rights, their Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the right to equal protection under the law?”
Sheila Jackson Lee on efforts to repeal the ACA aka Obamacare
Yale University 1972
University of Virginia Law School 1975
Can you imagine that this idiot is a lawyer? Any respect I ever had for any of these institutions of higher “learning” left long ago and this just confirms my disdain for them.
@25. There are many idiots with law degrees. Speaking of Joe Biden, where has he been lately?
@2/17AirCave, Joe’s on the balcony looking for a shotgun target.
@21 “Hurricane Shadonkadonk”
~facepalm~
I approve of this recommendation. Maybe, just maybe, we get someone so dumb, so incompetent, so horrible, so inept at their job there is no other recourse but to shut down the DHS. We can only dream, right?
@30 – I’d tend to think you’re right, but mediocrity, corruption, maintaining the status quo and running American institutions and agencies (and cities, for that matter) into the ground is what is expected now.
The left likes it that way. It’s normal to them.
@30 If that were the case, we’d no longer have a Justice Department, a State Department, an Internal Revenue Service, an Education Department…. 🙁
#30- wasn’t that the description of the last homeland security secretary?
I notice that she received her Law Degree before 1980. That was before the crack epidemic hit the black population. Perhaps she burned out all her working brain cells while her constituents were doing likewise. If she is a true representation of her constituents, her district has to be the the most intellectually challenged in the nation.
If Obama even considers her appointment, that to me, would constitute an Impeachable Offence. It would mean that he has lost his fucking mind!
@34 – Whenever TAH gets a “Feel Good Story” from Houston, it always appears to occur in her district – but I don’t think the crack epidemic has left Houston yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgbBP9Em00A Corrine Brown should have that spot
This is like NAMBLA recommending Gacy or Dommer for Pope!
Hasn’t Houston suffered enough? First we had all those bad seasons with the Texans, the Lastros are the worst team in baseball – again – and now this?
@38 – Yeah, Houston has suffered plenty.
A majority of the Katrina transplants are still there.
Jackson Lee can throw plates, ashtrays, and lamps longer and stronger than Hillary ever could. And doesn’t she have the highest staff turnover of anyone in the House due to the abuse she lays on them? Yeah, she’d be a terrific appointment to DHS.
Bed-wetter
This is like Wiley Coyote being recommended for Director of Research and Development for the ACME Skunk Works.
Yall forgot her recent brilliant annoucement of: “I am a freed slave”
“Don’t you know who I am? I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Where is my seafood meal? I know it was ordered.”
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee after she found out a meal she wanted wasn’t available on the type of flight she was on.
Yeah…great choice
Good news everyone: North and South Vietnam are getting along just fine.
This woman is an idiot.
just look at the history of “DC” politicians.
They prey on their own people.
I know this may be construed an politically incorrect, but it is the truth.
Per OldSargeUSAR, Jackson-Lee is probably at least as obnoxious as our resident personal fiend (u no hu) and will have people quitting right and left.
So look at the bright side of it: she can probably close the DHS all by her little ol’ lonesome, just by being as obnoxious, petulant, arrogant and abusive as possible.
Hey, Sheila! Do you know who I am? I’m a registered voter and I vote in every election, bitch.
I believe Dennis Miller grouped her with Pelosi, Debbie Does Miami and Babs Boxer when her called them “Immensely Stupid Women”
Does Lee lose her immunity by leaving Congress? Is that why Maxine Waters won’t leave?
I’m with #30- this feckless, incompetent political hack would be the perfect face for a feckless, incompent and totally inept agency. Her “leadership” would bring much needed focus on why this agency needs to be defunded and done away with.