-By Warner Todd Huston
Texas Congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee has always been a one woman gaffe factory and last night she was at it again proving that she doesn’t even know the main actors in the biggest political story of the month after she congratulated “Doug Moore” for winning the Alabama Senate election.
On December 12, Alabamans went to the polls and in a shocking upset elected Democrat Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate. Jones overcame a 20 point deficit to beat troubled Republican candidate Roy Moore to take the seat vacated by Trump’s U.S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.
Apparently, Sheila Jackson Lee wanted to get in on sending congratulations to her fellow Democrat, but even though the Moore/Jones race was THE most talked about race in the entire country over the last few months, Lee didn’t even know who the heck she was talking about.
It was a momentous win for the Democrat Party because no Democrat has won a seat there since 1992.
So, Democrats all across the country were crowing from the rooftops, to be sure.
Late on Election Day, Jackson Lee jumped to her Twitter account to congratulate Doug Jones for winning the election, but foolishly mashed up his name with Roy Moore’s calling Jones “Doug Moore.”
Naturally, as soon as her staffer saw how stupid she was, they deleted the tweet and replaced it with one containing the right name!
This is far from the only time Jackson Lee has made herself look like an idiot.
Lee has variously insisted that the U.S. Constitution is 400 years old (yeah, even though the country is not even 250 years old yet), claimed on the floor of the House that Congress must pass Obama’s executive orders (even though Congress has nothing to do with EOs), and once even claimed she was a “freed slave.” On the latter, since slavery was eliminated in 1865, she is amazingly well preserved for being over 150 years old!
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing news, opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that wrote articles on U.S. history for several American history magazines. Huston is a featured writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart News, and he appears on such sites as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, YoungConservatives.com, and many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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