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House Debates Honor For Jackson [Not Everyone Is Behind Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee's Resolution......]
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Posted on 07/08/2009 8:19:38 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
House Debates Honor For Jackson Politico: Not Everyone Is Behind Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee's Resolution Praising Michael Jackson
(The Politico) This story was written by Glenn Thrush
At about 3 p.m. Tuesday, civil rights hero John Lewis (D-Ga.) rose in a nearly-empty House chamber to express his support for a resolution recognizing the slaves who toiled and died while building the Capitol.
At almost the same moment, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) took the stage at the sold-out Staples Center in Los Angeles, where she vowed to bestow a similar honor on the King of Pop.
Jackson-Lee's 1,500 word resolution honoring Michael Jackson as a "global humanitarian" may be symbolic and heartfelt, but it's causing some nonsymbolic heartburn for the Democratic House leadership.
Between high-stakes fights over climate change and health care reform, Democrats will now have to moonwalk through the minefield of Jackson's oddball behavior, drug abuse and relationships with young children - all in the politically perilous geography of race relations in America.
"There's no appetite for this," one House Democrat told POLITICO. "We have too many other things to deal with right now."
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Sounds racist to me........
To: Sub-Driver
They should wrap into some all-encompassing “National Pedophile Day” honor...
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:22:40 AM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(See www.buyingapuppy.com for News on Dogs and Puppies)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:22:59 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: Sub-Driver
The House can work on this while Senator Hatch is converting food and oxygen into carbon dioxide and legislation by investigating college football's bowl selection method.
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:23:01 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
To: Onelifetogive
Someone will throw the race card in there and everyone will then get on board. Bet.
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:24:06 AM PDT
by
cranked
To: Onelifetogive
As I have said, at worst he's a pervert pedophile. At best he was a mentally disturbed. If he did not have money he would have been committed in a New York minute.
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:26:47 AM PDT
by
Recon Dad
(Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - MARSOC DAD)
To: Sub-Driver
House Debates Honor For Jackson
Fine by me.
To: Sub-Driver
This is one of the dumbest women on the planet. She and Cynthia McKinney suffer friom the same dementia.
Complete, utter, uneducation, entitlement-minded, moron.
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:27:49 AM PDT
by
my small voice
(A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
To: KarlInOhio
Senator Hatch is converting food and oxygen into carbon dioxide and legislation LOL!
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:28:40 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Sub-Driver
Hey Sheila, how about we put a commemorative placard up on Mars ... right next to the flag that the astronauts left behind.
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:30:10 AM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Clinton was our first black President ... Obama is our first French President.)
To: Sub-Driver
Why isn't Nancy Pelosi keeping her troops in line???
She should beat Jackson-Lee to a pulp.
She tries to do it to all her political adversaries, why not Lee?
P.S. What an insult to the venerated Civil War names of Jackson and Lee. Any resemblance between historical names of honor and she-witch Sheila is non-existant.
Leni
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:32:58 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(Please Don't Tell Obama What Comes After a Trillion!)
To: Sub-Driver
MJ’s funeral: Another media hyped nonevent.
Verdict: Boring.
I’ve already wasted eight (8) words on it and that is more than enough.
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:36:41 AM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(This tagline temporarily closed until I finish building my deck.)
To: NativeNewYorker
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:37:10 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
(Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
To: NativeNewYorker
They could have Jackson Day...Reggie, Jessie, Michael, Sheila, Andrew, Latoya, Jermaine, Janet,etc.
To: 1riot1ranger; Action-America; Aggie Mama; Alkhin; Allegra; American72; antivenom; Antoninus II; ...
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:38:01 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: Notasoccermom
Let’s all hope that Queen Sheila doesn’t have a wardrobe malfunction.
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:39:09 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: my small voice
This is one of the dumbest women on the planet. She and Cynthia McKinney suffer friom the same dementia.Maybe this is what Sotomayor meant by "inherent psychological differences".
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:39:57 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Sub-Driver
Ms. Lee and others of her ilk, race, use every angle with Black skin to start or try to start civil imbalance. Michael Jackson was in one word a FREAK. Ms. Jackson shows her intolerance of real Americans to praise this sad, albeit, successful entertainer who disdained the Black skin he was born with. She wastes time and money to pursue a silly and very transparent venue....doesn’t she represent white folks also? The Rev. Sharpton, he of the Tawana Brawley hoax, was embarrassing with his effusive remarks along with a whole host of others who showed extremely bad taste.
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:42:35 AM PDT
by
yoe
(Pay attention to what Obama does NOT what he says.)
To: Sub-Driver
Are we living in the Twilight Zone?
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:52:59 AM PDT
by
TNLawyer
("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,")
To: yoe
Ms. Lee and others of her ilk, race, use every angle with Black skin ...
Amazing that despite the fact that MJ's skin wasn't black, nor his kids or his wives, he still a "black" hero.
Meanwhile, people like Clarence Thomas are looked down on as Uncle Toms.
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posted on
07/08/2009 8:56:25 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
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