Yesterday Rush Limbaugh took on Sheila Jackson Lee in regard to the Cindy Sheehan crusade:
We do have some elected officials down there. We've got John Conyers; we've got Maxine Waters, the usual suspects -- Sheila Jackson Lee -- and she was on The Big Show with John Gibson yesterday on the Fox News Channel, and Gibson said, "The president said today, in speaking directly about Cindy Sheehan, that he thinks 'those who advocate...' and I'm quoting now, 'Those who advocate immediate withdrawal from Iraq are advocating a policy that would weaken the US.' So he appreciates her right to protest but he doesn't want to do that. What is wrong with this reasoning in your view?"
LEE: Those persons at Camp Casey may be called many things, but they're military families, many of whom have lost their loved ones and they are innocent, if you will, of any sort of pointed agenda other than the fact that they have experienced an enormous loss and they don't want any other mothers, any other families, to experience that same loss. When I went there yesterday --
RUSH: Stop the tape a second. I just want you to know you are listening to a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance who is a member of the United States Congress from Texas.LEE: -- it was not captured by most of the media because I was speaking to the families. I came there as an American, I came there as a mother and as a parent, and I came there to give them comfort. We as members of Congress have a responsibility along with the commander-in-chief to design an effective strategy to allow our troops to come home with dignity. But when I spoke to Cindy Sheehan today, she wanted me to make the point that she has been nonpartisan.
RUSH: Really, Sheila, what kind of a dupe are you? Are you really this...? Do you believe this? She's not partisan? There's no pointed agenda? Let's go back in time. This is April of 2005 at San Francisco State U. Cindy Sheehan spoke to a group of students who called themselves Students Against War. Don't forget, now, human rights attorney Lynn Stewart was with her. This attorney, Lynn Stewart, was convicted of aiding terrorist activity. We have two sound bites here. Just to show you the nonpartisan nature and the lack of any agenda of Cindy Sheehan.
SHEEHAN: If he thinks that it's so important for Iraq to have a US-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party animals. They need to go to this war, they need to fight.
RUSH: And then this.
SHEEHAN: If I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go and try and defend this morally repugnant system we have. The people are good. The system is morally repugnant.
RUSH: And of course that's mild compared to other things she's said. But to say it's "nonpartisan" or to say that there's no agenda attached here is just... Again, I don't know how you explain it. Cindy Sheehan can say to Sheila Jackson Lee, "I'm not partisan," and Sheila Jackson Lee believes it, or if Sheila Jackson Lee is just trying to pull the wool over our eyes. I really don't know. After that Mars rover comment, I really don't know how to read her, folks.
Let me give Rush a little more support on his argument that Cindy Sheehan lied about being a "nonpartisan". In a Mark Styen column I found this:
Yet in the wreckage of Pat and Cindy Sheehan's marriage there is surely a lesson for the Democratic Party. As Cindy says, they're both Democrats, but she's "more liberal" and "more radicalized."
Rush you were right again. Sheila Jackson Lee has to be a complete idiot to believe Cindy Sheehan is a nonpartisan.
