Shelia Jackson Lee answers her cell phone while a person in the audience is addressing her @ a townhall meeting here in Houston Texas on August 11th 2009.

Is this elitist  for real?  Oh wait, she is that nut who was on stage at the Michael Jackson memorial offering some kind of bs plaque.  Yep, this crazy is for real.

Marker 4:30 and it gets stranger by the second.

“She’s not even listening. … Seriously? … I mean, come on.”

Keep watching for a couple of minutes afterward, because Jackson-Lee does worse when she’s paying attention. She claims that the public plan won’t impact the existence of private insurance, and then in the same breath claims it will compete against existing private plans to make them “better”. And while her constituent tells a difficult tale of cancer survival, the best Jackson-Lee can offer is that a public plan will allow people to lose weight without having to pay $19.99 to those programs we see on TV. Er, $19.99 is less than most co-pays; it’s certainly less than what one has to pay through Medicare without Medicare Advantage for a doctor visit.

What would she have said if she had been asked to comment on why government wants to take over the only option that is not broken, yet.  Medicare, Medicaid are two government run operations of the three (private insurance is #3) that will run out of money by 2032?

Camille Paglia makes a shout out...unbelievable that she STILL supports POTUS and blames all the underlings for his junk.

But who would have thought that the sober, deliberative Barack Obama would have nothing to propose but vague and slippery promises — or that he would so easily cede the leadership clout of the executive branch to a chaotic, rapacious, solipsistic Congress? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom I used to admire for her smooth aplomb under pressure, has clearly gone off the deep end with her bizarre rants about legitimate town-hall protests by American citizens. She is doing grievous damage to the party and should immediately step down.

It is not going well, is it?