Rep. Jackson Lee: Obama Should Extend Payroll Tax Cut, Jobless Benefits By Executive Order
The machinations in Congress over extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits into 2012 could be rendered moot if Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee gets her way.
Appearing as a guest on Ed Schultz's radio show yesterday, the Texas lawmaker suggested Obama extend both by 60 days through executive order and bypass the GOP-led House. (audio clips after page break)
While Schultz was noncommittal in response, Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein, a Schultz radio guest later in the same hour, questioned whether Jackson Lee's proposal would withstand a legal challenge.
First, here's what a hoarse Jackson Lee said (audio) --
JACKSON LEE: I also said on the floor of the House, Ed, that the president, based upon the 89-person vote (in the Senate), Republicans and Democrats, can move an executive order for 60 days, move an executive order, and continue the unemployment extension and continue the payroll tax and call the House and Senate back in the appropriate time in January or when he desires for us to get to work, use the executive power. He has been, if you will, supported or emboldered (sic) by an 89-vote, 89-person vote in the United States Senate.
SCHULTZ: So you think the president should go executive power here?
JACKSON LEE: I absolutely do.SCHULTZ: OK.
JACKSON LEE: We are now at the end of a day ...SCHULTZ: I mean, that is, do other Democrats, say in your caucus, share this ...?
JACKSON LEE: I've been speaking it, I'm going to be calling the White House shortly, our contacts to express that I believe that the ...
SCHULTZ (interrupting again): So he can extend the unemployment benefits and he can continue with the payroll tax cut by executive order?
JACKSON LEE: I believe that based upon the Senate vote, that it was so strong, that his lawyers can review his powers and call this an emergency.
SCHULTZ: Yeah, OK.
JACKSON LEE: And then call us back in January. Now, it is extraordinary, don't get me wrong. But I frankly, I'm feeling the pain. My voice is not evidence, the pain that I am feeling. This is a bad cold if you will.
Several minutes later, Stein expressed his doubts (audio) --
SCHULTZ: Now, Sheila Jackson Lee, congresswoman from Texas, was just on the program talking about, she wants the president to use executive powers and that his attorneys ought to be looking into that with the number of senators that are in favor of doing this. I don't know where it stands right now.
STEIN: I'm not an expert on the reaches of executive powers. I would have to imagine that this probably falls outside their purview. You know, tax and spend perogatives are those of the House and the Senate and executive powers traditionally come in matters of foreign policy. And my guess is that if Obama were to try to do something like that, it would probably have a legal challenge and a solid one at that.
With soulmates like Schultz and Stein hardly doing cartwheels in response, Jackson Lee might find this a tough idea to sell.
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We are headed towards an
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 8:31pm.
We are headed towards an authoritarian dictator government. This woman should be horsewhipped. I am glad she is a yankee transplant and not a real Texan. Of course we have enough kooks here in Texas.
I have never met a comrade Jackson Lee voter
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 9:53pm.
If any of you have, does their level of literacy extend beyond c-a-t, even you you spot them the c and the t?
This woman is dumber than frozen dog-squeeze.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Jackson Lee voters
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 10:21pm.
In all fairness, it's very difficult for dead people to spell anything correctly.
I thought it was a 'k' and a
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 11:16pm.
I thought it was a 'k' and a 't'..................
LOL you two
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 2:05am.
:-)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Screw the Constitution.
Submitted by GregE on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 10:17pm.
......says Sheila Jackson Lee. Time after time, she proves herself unworthy of dog catcher. How is voting done in her district? Darts? With her name on a wall and her opponent's on a business card?
There's nothing quite as
Submitted by ThisnThat on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 10:40pm.
There's nothing quite as damaging as sending a person to Congress as a lawmaker -- who knows nothing about the law! What are those Texas idiots thinking? Or are they capable of thinking at all?
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Hey TnT
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 12:15am.
A lot of those "idiot Texans" you're talking about reside in the big cities like Houston in Jackson Lee's case. Same with Austin, San Antonio, and DFW, and if you look at it county by county, you'll see that those areas tend to be blue dots in a sea of red. Some of us Texans are near those blue dots though, and it's a lesson in what not to do when you see what they do.
So THANKFULLY the "idiot Texans" are few and far between, but I wish they were fewer and further between. At least the state has consistently voted Republican during elections for potus.
-Jon
It's Houston voters
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 12:16am.
Yup, a lot of idiots over there.
This dimwit outta be careful
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 11:15pm.
This dimwit outta be careful of what she wants..............because if Boy Barry DOES become the dictator/king/great ruler that he'd really like to be - she'll be out of a job, since Barry won't need Congress, OR the Supreme Court, to deal with in order to implement his agenda - and he's been trying to do it incrementally from Day One......or was that Day Won??? Of course, she's about as useless as a two-legged stool anyway, and dummer than a box of bent and rusty used nails.
Saw this this AM elsewhere; I
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 12:08am.
Saw this this AM elsewhere; I knew it would get picked up here.
This woman is personification of jaw-dropping stupidity.
The president doesn't need ANY support in the House or the Senate in order to do those things which actually do fall under the purview of executive powers, so why try to use the senate vote as justification?
Yeah, you do that, Sheila: you call your "contacts" in the White House and advise them; get back to us and let us know what they say.
She's "embolded," MB!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 8:23am.
I think that "jaw-dropping stupidity" is now a requirement to run on the Democrat ticket in most states.
Texas is smart enough to corral all of their illiterate voters up into a couple of urban areas so they can elect fellow morons to "represent" them. If any of those voters actually paid taxes that were used to pay the salaries of jackasses like Sheila, they would be really pissed.
... and what the hell is it with that "hair turban" she wears?
New Orleans, don't be sorry that Katrina hit. Because that happened, do you realize how many of these Houston voters you got to ship off to Texas, and out of your districts? May be the best thing that has happened to you since the Louisiana Purchase!
The new standard
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 12:14am.
If a president's desired bill doesn't get passed by majorities in both houses, he can decide when the support is "enough" to warrant his simply making it law by executive order.
I wonder
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 12:17am.
If she'll still believe that when there's a republican in the WH?
The Goal
Submitted by m1xram on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 12:51am.
When your goal is to bankrupt the country (Cloward and Piven) and make our Constitution irrelevant (Tragedy of Hope), then what she is saying is perfectly logical. It is the goal of Progressives.
The opposite of Left is Freedom.
I bet she will feel the same
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 5:51pm.
I bet she will feel the same way if a Republican gets elected and rules by exec orders. Oh yeah
not a feeling
Submitted by m1xram on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 8:51pm.
It is not a feeling. Cloward and Piven is written by Progressives for Progressives. Tragedy and Hope was written by a Progressive insider who admits to their complete agenda. You can read the short commentary called The Naked Capitalist if you don't wish to wade through 400 plus pages of Tragedy and Hope. To accomplish these goals read Rules for Radicals, dedicated to satan, where the main thought is that "the ends justify the means".
These books are Progressives' admissions and instructions, written by themselves, on their own goals and how they may be implemented, i.e. by any means necessary. Think of these books as their signed confessions of opposition to what the Founders set up and how to dismantle it.
The opposite of Left is Freedom.
Jackson is a nitwit
Submitted by Russian55 on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 1:48am.
Thinking the President could alter tax and spend legislation with an Executive Order is giving the President the power of a dictator.
But, Newt wanted to be able to ignore Court rulings he thought were unconstitutional.
The threat is from both sides of the spectrum.
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for those who kept their swords in the first place!
The threat from both sides of the spectrum?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 4:00am.
Red and blue state extremism? Hmmm
Newt is Infrared and O'Bama is Ultraviolet?
BTW, Coulter's really down on Newton.
The left tries to paint Cain
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 9:35am.
The left tries to paint Cain as a stupid black then sends this idiot to speak to the national media?
where are the victims
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 9:46am.
Now that Cain has dropped out it seems that we are no longer hearing a list of victims brough forth.
Wonder why?
Good point!
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 1:44pm.
Sit Rep: Cain gone. No one cares about the Potemkin victims anymore.
I'm wondering if any of those
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 2:22pm.
I'm wondering if any of those 'victims' is feeling a little bit 'used' these days, since their only reason for existing in this instance was to take down Cain - regardless of any truth or proof of their claims. Maybe they all got paid up front - by the REGIME, possibly from the Porkulus campaign slush fund.
Shiela Jackson Lee in Australia ...
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 3:21pm.
That would be totally confusing to Crocodile Dundee and friends!
wow....she is dumb....
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 4:34pm.
is she filling in for debbie this week as the dumbest women. i thought it was mika's week again......