Your Congress… hard at work ignoring you

Texas Congressperson Sheila Jackson-Lee holds a town hall meeting on health care “reform,” and in the midst of being asked a question by a cancer survivor decides it’s more important to blab on the cel phone.

Here’s some raw footage of the event. The question begins at about 4:00.

Here’s an excerpt of just the quality governance.
Here’s an interview with the woman Jackson-Lee decided wasn’t worth paying attention to.

Now, keep in mind just who this is. Sheila Jackon-Lee represents the 18th congressional district of Texas, an oddly gerrymandered plot of real estate that includes Houston… home of the NASA-Johnson Space Center. Up until a few years ago, she serve on the House Science Committee, and on the subcommittee overseeing NASA. But she was too damn dumb to know the difference between the Moon and Mars:

The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong! Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: “We just don’t teach enough science.”

Yay. The twin political titans of idiocy and arrogance, coming together to create a better socialist tomorrow whether you want it or not.