Weekly Idiot Roundup: Rev. Jesse Jackson And Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

Jesse Jackson, an alleged minister, was captured on Ed Schultz's radio program making these delusional comments:

SCHULTZ: What's your take on what we're facing right now in this country?

JACKSON: We're looking at the re-rise of the Confederacy, the same group narrowly conceived -- anti-labor, anti-racial justice, anti-gender equality, anti-the big American dream -- that tried to take us down in 1860. It was the Fort Sumter tea party, its progenitor, and Lincoln had to fight a war to establish the Union from them and to end slavery. This is the resurrection of the Confederacy. 

Just more of the same from the old racist. With comments like these he loses credibility by the day as he chooses to continue to live in the past.

And Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, well known for her infamous comments, including the "I stand here as a freed slave" line, ripped out two more crazy statements recently.

The first was in the immediate aftermath of the Washington D.C. shooting. She insinuated the government shutdown was the motivation behind the shooting:

"And God knows the tragedy of this poor person who came on the Hill in a black car. No one knows what drived this person to do this." 

It turns out the lady in the black car had mental issues.

And today this gem of a suggestion was uttered by Jackson Lee on the House floor:

“This is not an idea of anyone over another person. Republican and Democratic senators have already voted for this clean bill that we could vote on today. We have martial law. What that means – and my colleagues know what it means – is that you can put a bill on in just minutes.”  

I think she has figured out what would provoke people to invade D.C.

I hope she stays in Congress to serve as living proof that liberalism is a mental disease.

Sheila Jackson Lee: Healthcare and Education are Constitutional Rights

Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is a walking gaffe machine. Or a walking race-card machine. Or both. Anyway, considering she stands on the House floor "as a freed slave" and has compared the Tea Party to the KKK, she should not be given credence as an authority on any subject.

On May 6 while giving a speech to Congress, Jackson Lee made the following statements on healthcare, education, and how the Constitution deals with them:

I was very pleased to stand with my fellow Democrats and support the Affordable Care Act. I could go through the journey of 2009 and 2010, when many of us spread out across the country and confronted misinformation through town hall meetings, controversy and conflictedness.

And what should be emphasized as the president's leadership on one single point that although health care was not listed, per se, in the constitution, it should be a constitutional right. And if you read the words or quote the words of the Declaration of Independence, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that we have certain inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Jackson Lee actually admits that healthcare and education are not listed in the Constitution as rights.Considering she supports massive and ever increasing federal intervention into both areas, it is safe to assume upholding her oath of office is not a priority.

Then Jackson Lee goes off the legal deep-end. She conflates the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as if they are the same documents or of the same legal standing, and they aren't. The Constitution is the law of the land, while the Declaration of Independence is a non-legal, but historically great rejection of British imperialism.

But the confusion of the two documents isn't even her main problem. The grave issue occurs when she confuses liberty with entitlement.

In reality, the right to liberty encompasses the right to life and the right to pursue happiness. If there is no right to life without it being deprived by another person, there is no liberty. If there is no right to pursue happiness without another person impeding it, there is no liberty.

But there is no right just to be alive. We all die. There is no right just to be happy. One may want to own the world, and it may make them happy, but that does not mean they have a right to it.

Sheila Jackson Lee epitomizes what is wrong with Congress today: too much wishful thinking and not enough good reading.