Comments on: Okay, what I really want to know is…

By: MrKenneth

MrKenneth — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:19:51 +0000

mike - if you think media matters is a consistently worthy source of information, you need to broaden your horizons. Does it not tell you something that the latest legislation to (rightly) add controls to Wall Street’s shenanigans contains not one whit of fix for Fannie and Freddie? Read both the NYTimes and the WSJ and you will be better prepared for discussions political.

Play nice - and point out the real leaders, ‘cuz they are in short supply.

By: Winter Wallaby

Winter Wallaby — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:16:03 +0000

mike, that a video showing a Democrat acting like a dunce makes you accuse Bill of anti-Democrat bias strikes me as pretty silly. Apparently “Unbiased” = “never criticizing Democrats”???

BTW, Sheila Jackson Lee is so popular in her district that the Republicans haven’t even bothered running against her since 1994. I’m thus assuming the video was an abberation.

“Safe seat” = “not stupid” ???????

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:50:03 +0000

Mike, if you seriously believe I’m showing anti-Democrat bias, I suggest you search this site for Beck, Cheney and Dubya tags.

I never gave a thought to Lee’s party affiliation when I posted this video. All I was thinking was that this reminded me of some home video of a five-year-old trying to explain recent history.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:17:14 +0000

Bill 21 - Aw, c’mon Bill. Show a little non-partisan bias and play a few Sharron Angle videos. Heck, you can count on a verbal gaffe from that nitwit almost daily, and she’s running for a U.S. Senate seat!

BTW, Sheila Jackson Lee is so popular in her district that the Republicans haven’t even bothered running against her since 1994. I’m thus assuming the video was an abberation. Perhaps she was all tuckered out from walking the Appalachian Trail. ;^)

By: mike

mike — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:10:24 +0000

MrKenneth 24: Spoken like a true no-nothing.

The rampant federal deficits this country is suffering are almost entirely the aftereffects of the Bush administration’s failed economic policies. You can see for yourself here:

http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/deficits.jpg

The TARP was necessary to fight the full-fledged depression Mr. Bush left on our doorstep. If it wasn’t for Republican interference TARP could have been larger in scope and thus more effective. Republicans are, in essence, working hard to make this economy fail so they cans take back the reins of power and suck what little life is still left in this corpse.

By: MrKenneth

MrKenneth — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:33:16 +0000

mike@18 - let’s see - Ds rightly excoriate Bush for spending into a deficit by not funding his wars and passing a drug bill. Today your children’s children will be trying to pay for spending and deficits that are magnitudes of what we had under Bush. Wall Street made a game out of the mortgage market fueled by our government (both parties) “encouraging” banks to make loans that might not make sense.

Many of us who live in the state represented by Ms Bachman are not real impressed by her radicalism but I would rather have her (and even Al Franken) than this product of political correctness preferences. Not enough adults in D.C. or many other places, either.

By: billytheskink

billytheskink — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:03:30 +0000

Sheila Jackson Lee has become an institution in her urban Houston district, though she is not too popular among Houstonians who live outside of it.
She’s considered, by most of the Houston media anyways, to be a very effective congresswoman in that she brings quite a bit of federal money into her district and I’m told she’s fairly influential among house Democrats.

This incident got didn’t get much play in the Houston media, bad as it is. If her district included parts of Houston a little further west, parts of the 7th and 9th congressional districts, she might actually face problems with reelection as that is the center of Houston’s large, vocal, and voting Vietnamese population.

A Vietnamese-American politician just recently took a serious blow to his reelection chances by coming out in support of a new Communist Vietnam consulate in Houston. He was labeled “soft on communism” by many Vietnamese protesters.

By: JosePluma

JosePluma — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:18:04 +0000

“How awful was the guy Texas voters thought was worse?”

Pretty awful. He was a (gasp!) Republican.

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:11:11 +0000

Mike, what light exactly do you believe me to be shining?

By: David N

David N — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:52:34 +0000

Ah, gerrymandering is a time honored tradition in the US - for both parties, believe it or not. People say they are against it, but they aren’t really - not when it helps their party or their candidate(s). Just like people say they are against federal government dollars - in someone else’s community or district. They love it in their own, and vote out officials who don’t bring it home.

But there’s a good reason for this, as MrKenneth points out - we’re all idiots. Even Elis. Every state has a Jackson Lee somewhere. So maybe he’s right.