Posted on 02/23/2007 3:46:17 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Rep. Jackson-Lee: Chavez Has 'Many Friends' in Congress
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Feb. 23, 2007
A U.S. congresswoman called on the Bush administration Wednesday to reconsider its ban on selling parts for U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to Venezuela, urging improved ties between the two nations.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, told reporters that she was making the first U.S. congressional visit to Venezuela since President Hugo Chavez's December re-election with the message: "I want an immediate repairing of the relations between the United States and Venezuela."
Jackson Lee described Venezuela as a friendly nation that the U.S. should cooperate with and said that the F-16 jets, which are built in Texas, was an issue of concern to her constituents in Houston.
Pledging to "personally go back and raise" the issue, she called for the U.S. Congress "to reconsider sanctions on the F-16s."
The U.S. State Department has banned arms sales to Venezuela, including parts necessary to maintain its fleet of F-16s, citing a lack of support by Chavez's government for counterterrorism efforts and its close relations with Iran and Cuba.
Venezuela has since begun receiving the first of 24 Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets as part of approximately $3 billion in military deals that Chavez has signed with Moscow.
She said her fact-finding mission to Venezuela was part of an effort by a new Democrat-controlled Congress to show that "Venezuela has many friends in this new Congress."
"We're here to re-establish friendship," she said.
Thanks for saying that.
I understand the desire to paint a whole group with a broad brush, and believe me, withe elected "officials" like Barney Frank, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and Marty Meehan, I can certainly understand it. I do it too with places like San Francisco, Madison and Berkeley.
It is just painful to get lumped in all the time with the moonbats up here.
But there ARE some conservatives up here, and we can only try to change things one person at a time.
In a moment of candid stupidity, Lee reveals her party and especially, the presumed leader of the democrat party, Hillary. The dems have tried to couch their traitor-speech in euphemisms of patriotism. It took 3 years for them to write the script and Lee flaps her gums and exposes them for what they really are. I will not hold my breath waiting for Wolfe Blizter to report on his soulmates rhetoric.
Exactly.
That pin-head Chavez probably doesn't know whether to make nice to support these traitors or continue his "war" against America.
My belief is "useful idiots" like Sheila only confuse the enemy.
Is this woman out of her freaking mind, why would we sell this madman any parts to be able to enable F-16 fighter jets to become functional. What a MORON she is.
I think Hugo Chavez is as dangerous as Saddam was.
Some of these people do not have a CLUE.
Yes Virginia there really are Conservatives in Massachusetts. Count me as one of them.
Here, here.
A Massachusetts Conservative
I know.
Rarer than Hen's Teeth.
But we are here...:)
Do you think that she was yelling - "I Can't believe I ate the whole thing"?
Gotta get a picture of her leaning on Chavez just like Cindy Sheehan did, or giving a surprised (goosed?) Jesse Jackson a hug from behind.
I thought the Woolly Mammoth died out about 10,000 years ago. Guess I was wrong. Let's put her on the Endangered Feces list and hopefully some decent politician will make her politically extinct.
A country that can elect and send an ignorant bitch like this to congress, is a nation is steep decline...
Semper Fi
Yes we know, Sheila, keep telling everyone, can you go on Oprah and tell more people?
I would like as many people to know as possible that a communist dictator is thought of as a friend by many in the democrat party. Then you can go on about how much better Chavez is than Bush etc., they you can tell us how great Castro and Che' Guevara are and what a jerk Reagan is.
Why doesn't this woman get a larger platform.
I ask because I wonder what the attraction is other than vote buying.
Well, you could start with this group:
Oh great...one of those is in my state...McDermott. I knew he was bad news...this is just shows his hole is deeper than I thought.
"A country that can elect and send an ignorant bitch like this to congress, is a nation is steep decline..."
So, so true. The beginning of the end.
He does. He had the whole Democrat Party.
LOL!
In the 7th Congressional District, the Chicago CHA projects are part of that gerrymander which always manages to get a 100% voter turnout. The rest of us might get 40%, if we're lucky. And the democRats, they ALL vote straight party too.
Loyal Cha-cah-go voters, them all. Nobody was stuck late at work. Died overnight from a drug overdose. Was hospitalized from drive-by gun shot wounds. Was too strung-out, hung-over, or couldn't figure out how to punch the butterfly ballot on Election Day.
Aldercritter Fast Eddie Vrdoliak used to explain how "machine politics" happens. Chicago d'Rats would run the straight party ballot through voting machine, until the precinct count is "just right." Meanwhile the gangbanger punks guard the polling place doors, keeping those nosey suburbanites away.
And yes, one Chicago precinct captain managed a prison trip for this charade. The FBI found thousands of his fingerprints all over one ballot. So now, to prevent the spread of AIDS, d'Rats wear latex gloves when counting ballots.
Cheers,
OLA
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