At what point in our history did politicians decide it was their job to convince us what was good for us and ignore the will of the people?   Don’t we live in a representative Republic where our politicians are supposed to represent those who elect them?

Just one of many recent examples is that of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who was caught talking on her cell phone (apparently to the “healthcare hot line” to find out how to respond to people at her town hall meeting on healthcare) while she was supposed to be having a conversation with a participant at her Texas town hall meeting, Tracy Miller.  

Clearly Rep. Lee was in the wrong and clearly could care less about what her constituents had to say on this matter.  Her response to those that called her on the carpet for this total lack of respect was only to say “I hope that Tracy will come to my town hall meetings…so that I can tell her that there was no offense… I hope I can convince her to support HR 3200.”  Rep. Lee clearly has no desire to hear from her constituents and only wanted to preach her political beliefs and convince others to believe what she believes.

For this I hope that Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is voted out of office in 2010 and she is labeled a CHICKENCRAT!