If you still haven't figured out why this country is in the sorry mess it is, it's because idiots keep electing inconsiderate and egotistic people like Sheila Jackson Lee to Congress.
From a post by Ellen Carmichael at Healthcare Horserace.com:
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) hosted a town hall in her home district of Houston, but spent more time talking on her cell phone than talking with her constituents about health care reform.
In a video uploaded on YouTube, Lee is seen chatting away on her cell phone for several moments while an attendee shared her own patient story as a cancer survivor who opposes President Obama's health care reform proposals. The speaker was calm and respectful, gently persisting even after Lee refused to end her phone call. When asked by the Houston Chronicle why she spoke on her phone during the woman's remarks, Lee explained, "In Congress, we have to multi-task."
Her behavior is indicative of the mindset of those in favor of Obamacare: Drowning out those with whom they disagree and willfully ignoring the voice of the people. Maybe Lee's challenger in her 2010 re-election bid should utilize this clip: an elected official refusing to listen to a cancer survivor in a health care forum. It's hard to explain why a cell phone conversation is more important than hearing the perspective of someone most nearly affected by health care- a cancer victim.
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I live in her district and am ashamed to have the worst, most arrogant, publicity-seeking representative in the entire Congress. She eulogizes Michael Jackson in a bald attempt to please her Afro-American constituents because she rabidly supported Hillary Clinton over President Obama. She fires and loses more good employees than any other congressperson. Her constituent services have been documented to be far, far below all other Texas congresspersons. She demands special queenly service on her airplane flights, and goes to every funeral where there might be media present. She demands Afro-American names for hurricanes and actually asked NASA if they had photos of the American flag our astronauts supposedly (in her ignorant mind)planted on MARS! She does everything she can for illegal immigrants and opposes legal, constitutional gun rights. A lot of voters like me can't figure out why Congressional District 18 keeps re-electing this blowhard partisan hack. I would vote for a sickly chihuahua over her.
Does this really surprise anyone? Most politicians serve themselves first, their party second, and their special interests third.
The people they are elected to serve do not count at all.
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