Sheila Jackson Lee Cries Over Obama Impeachment Talk: We Never Tried To Impeach Bush! (Even Though She Did)

More Liberal Stupidity! What's sad is that people elected Her!

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) spoke passionately on the House floor Wednesday against any talk of impeaching President Barack Obama, arguing that Democrats never tried to impeach Republican President George W. Bush when he went to war with Iraq under false pretenses. One small problem with her claim: Lee co-sponsored the Bush impeachment bill in 2008.

Leaving aside the possibility that Democrats are driving impeachment talk, in order to gin up midterm fundraising panic, far more than their Republican opponents these days, Jackson Lee took Republicans to task over a House vote on whether to move forward with a lawsuit against Obama:

I ask my colleagues to oppose this resolution, for it is in fact a veiled attempt at impeachment, and it undermines the law that allows a President to do his job. A historical fact: that President [George W.] Bush pushed this Nation into a war that had little to do with apprehending terrorists. We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his authority. President Obama has the authority…

Well, here’s the Library of Congress’ bill summary page for H.R. 1258, Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s (D-Ohio) impeachment bill that died in committee in June of 2008. Titled “Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors,” H.R. 1258 not only is an impeachment bill – it’s an impeachment bill Jackson Lee herself co-sponsored, along with ten other Congressmen.

A Jackon Lee spokesman later tried to clarify her remarks, tersely telling Yahoo NewsThursday, without elaborating, that “she misspoke.”

“Despite Democratic protests on the House floor, however,” wrote Yahoo News’ Chris Moody, “[Democratic] party lawmakers seem downright gleeful about the exercise after fundraising successfully from the lawsuit and talk of impeachment.”

In March, you might recall, Jackson Lee took to the House floor to celebrate our 400 year-oldConstitution.

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