Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Proves She's Dumber Than A Pile Of Rocks

Jim Treacher famously stated: "When Republicans screw up, that's the story. When Democrats screw up, the Republicans' reaction is the story." This is another such incident.

    The New York Post reports:

    Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stunned attendees at a high school solar eclipse event Monday by claiming the rock-solid moon is a “planet” that is “made up mostly of gases” — before adding she still wants to be “first in line” to learn how to live there.

    The former top Democrat on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee badly botched elementary lunar facts while speaking during the gathering at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston.

    “You’ve heard the word ‘full moon.’ Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases,” Jackson Lee, 74, told teenage pupils who gathered on a sports field ahead of the rare celestial event.

    “And that’s why the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon? Are the gases such that we could do that?” the congresswoman said.

    “The sun is a mighty powerful heat, but it’s almost impossible to go near the sun. The moon is more manageable.”

    Jackson Lee made a series of other questionable statements, including saying the moon, which reflects the sun’s light, gives off “unique light and energy” and misstating the scientific reason for the eclipse.

    “You have the energy of the moon at night,” she told the kids.

    The solar eclipse was happening because the Earth was unusually close to the moon, she said — though, in fact, the eclipse was the result of the alignment of the sun and moon.

    “I don’t think we’ve been on the moon the last 50 years. So we will be landing on the moon. What you’ll see today will be the closest distance that the moon has ever been in the last 20 years. Which means that’s why they will shut the light down because they will be close to the Earth,” she said of the eclipse alignment.

    “I don’t know about you, I want to be first in line to know how to live and to be able to survive on the moon,” Jackson Lee added. “That’s another planet which we’re going to see shortly.”

When asked about her nonsense, Jackson Lee responded:

“Obviously I misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters. What can I say, though, foolish thinkers lust for stupidity!” she said of GOPers who swiftly criticized her glaring gaffes.

There you have it: according to Jackson Lee, facts and science are stupid and don't matter. I would note that if you replace everything she said about the moon with the sun, it is just as crazy. And to think that she was the senior Democrat on the House's space subcommittee!