Otherwise, Sheila Jackson Lee would have looked real dumb. Uh oh… wait.
##Congresswoman who co-sponsored Bush impeachment bill said Democrats never tried to impeach Bush##
During a floor speech on Wednesday night, Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee voiced her opposition to the House Republican lawsuit
against President Barack Obama and said that Democrats had never moved
to impeach former President George W. Bush when he was in office.
“A historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with
apprehending terrorists,” Jackson Lee said. “We did not seek an
impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his
authority. President Obama has the authority.”
It’s an odd thing for Jackson Lee to say, because it was just six years ago that she helped lead a movement to impeach Bush by co-sponsoring a bill accusing him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
“She misspoke,” Jackson Lee’s spokesman Mike McQuerry told Yahoo News on
Thursday morning. He declined to elaborate on what she meant to say.
Some members of the GOP conference have stoked talk of impeachment, but
House Speaker John Boehner has said there are no plans to pursue it.
However, last night the House approved a lawsuit against the president,
voting 225-201 to force him to carry out provisions in the 2010 health
care law that his administration has postponed. Democrats say
Republicans are using it merely as an election-year political ploy,
because they know an impeachment effort would not succeed.
Despite Democratic protests on the House floor, however, party lawmakers
seem downright gleeful about the exercise after fundraising
successfully from the lawsuit and talk of impeachment.