As RedState readers know all too well, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is a legend in her own mind.
The longtime Congresswoman and failed Houston mayoral candidate is known in Capitol Hill circles and beyond as the “Queen of Mean, and she has a history of saying some incredibly fact-challenged and “out there” (to put it mildly) things, including that the Constitution was “400 years” old. She also admitted back in July that she got into college due to affirmative action in House remarks criticizing the Supreme Court ruling that effectively struck down the use of such programs in college admissions.
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And after getting caught in a nasty, profanity-laced tirade against a staffer in 2023 (something she’s become notorious for over the course of the nearly 30 years she’s been in Congress), Jackson Lee gave a pretty incredible defense of herself, stating “I recognize that in my zeal to do everything possible to deliver for my constituents I have in the past fallen short of my own standards and there is no excuse for that.”
“I am passionate about serving my constituents. I want the best for all of them,” Jackson Lee went on to proclaim in one of the most self-serving statements ever put out there by an elected official.
In the latest misadventures of Sheila Jackson Lee, she was in Houston on Monday ahead of the total solar eclipse. As it turned out, though, Lee’s own “path of totality” veered wildly off course as circuits broke during a rambling speech she gave at the Mickey Leland Federal Building (transcribed from video):
“[Unintelligible] provide unique light and energy so that you have the energy of the moon at night, and sometimes you’ve heard the word ‘full moon,’ sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gasses.
And that’s why the question is why or how could we as humans could live on the moon. Are the gasses such that we could do that? The sun is a mighty powerful heat, and it’s almost impossible to go near the sun. The moon is more manageable. And you will see in a moment, not a moment, you’ll see in a couple of years, that NASA is going back to the moon.”
Watch:
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee says the moon is made out of “gases” and the sun is “almost” too hot for us to go near.
Just think: @JacksonLeeTX18 was almost the mayor of Houston. pic.twitter.com/w8eucQKuYN
— Kenny Webster (@KennethRWebster) April 9, 2024
As you watch that clip and then rewatch it to try and make sense of it all, please keep in mind that Jackson Lee previously “served as a member of the Science Committee and the Ranking Member on the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee.”
How that’s even possible is a mystery to me (well, not really), and yet here we are.
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