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Sheila Jackson Lee: Disagreement over debt ceiling due to Obama’s race

11:17 AM 07/16/2011
Alec Jacobs

Just when you thought you’d heard it all in the debt ceiling debate.

Friday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee gave her assessment of the debate. The reason Republicans aren’t negotiating and aren’t willing to compromise on the debt ceiling, she said, is because of Obama’s race. (Congressional bosses from Hell: Sheila Jackson Lee)

“I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president, only this president, only this one has received the kind attacks and disagreements and inability to work,” she said. “Only this one.”

Jackson Lee acknowledged that Republicans have a majority in the House, and that it means sometimes Democrats will lose fights in the Congress. “It’s all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It’s all right to talk about how we’re going to appropriate … It’s all right to have that disagreement, that’s the give and take of democracy.”

But it wasn’t long before she pulled the race card back out. “I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [directed at] this president. Why is he different? And in my community, that is the question that we raise. In the minority community, that is the question that is being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully?”

The representative then took a swipe at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), implying that his talk about making sure President Obama is a one-term president has to do with race: “Why does the leader of the Senate continually talk about [how] his job is to bring the president down, to make sure he’s unelected? It’s 2011, it’s not 2012, you need to play those politics in 2012, not now.”

RealClearPolitics.com has video of Jackson Lee’s floor speech here.

Tags: Barack Obama, Debt ceiling, Mitch McConnell, Sheila Jackson Lee
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  • MURF66

    what is a female dog called, sheila jackson lee.

  • dennis2010

    TO: Rep.Sheila Jackson Lee, The fact that you talk in the language tone
    that you do only confirms beyond a doubt that it is you who has race
    on your mind. I think that if you were not wrapped in a “race” blanket
    like those you cling to, you would not even be in a political office.
    The reason people like you always pull out a race card is because
    it is a method used to divert and distract people and hide the
    fact that you are somewhat ignorant and poorly represent those
    black people looking up to you for representation. Obama is not
    so smart which the last 1 1/2 yrs. have shown. The “first black”
    president is a failure and so many people were taken for a ride
    when they elected Obama.

  • nigelbrain

    GOD is Love. The President represents all of us! We must show respect for the Office of the President even though he be a Democrat– or we become the noisy Party of HATERS. Judging by most of these comments, we look far from Godly.

  • melang

    I suppose that her short-term memory aids her in forgetting the shellacking that former President George W Bush took while in office and is still being used as the fall guy in every instance wherein the Democrats need one… to blame for their President’s shortcomings, his inability to lead,to formulate an actual plan to adopt (lest it be yet another of his hair-brained policies that lead only to further deepening of our national debt). Now what inane sense of her “particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president, only this president, only this one has received the kind attacks and disagreements and inability to work,” she said. “Only this one.” has been stricken with a determination this is a position of honor and truth in her mis-characterization drawn from a supercilious race card.
    Were I a black man or a man of any color at all I would be filled with righteous indignation for this shallow person’s misbegotten and unworthy words of alluding to facts that were not and will not ever be established to authenticate her claims. She truly is a bottom-feeder who has nothing of a bright mind to show for any particular cause – so she draws from a stance that is both un-American and divisive for our national unity.

  • fvfdgm1

    So what else is new? When you disagree with the President, that’s just what the left thinks! they can’t just look @ the issue, pros, cons, etc. Nothing new so no longer taken seriously!

  • bassboat

    Just another brain dead demo. Someone in her district should make her retire, she is embarrassing it beyond repair.

  • DocFreeman

    Sheila Jackson-Lee always plays the race card when things do not go her way. Another fact about Sheila Jackson-Lee is that she is one of the Vice Co-Chairs in the Democratic Socialists of America. Check out their web site
    http://www.dsausa.org there 70 avowed socialist in the U.S Congress, this also includes Maxine Waters which is why she will not have an ethics hearing and why Charlie Rangel got off so easy.

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