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But It's Uphill

According to Sam Dealey, Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is literally a limousine liberal. In contravention of government ethics rules, each morning, she has one of her staffers pick her up in a limo at her Capitol Hill apartment, and drive her to her House office building--one and a half blocks away.

Boy, and they say people in LA don't like to walk. This reminds me of the scene in LA Story, in which Steve Martin walks out of his front door, down the sidewalk to the street, gets into his car, starts it up, pulls it forward to the next house, gets out, and walks up and knocks on the door.

Of course, we have to consider that she's not the sharpest tack in the box. This is a woman who, when the Sojourner landed on Mars, asked if it landed near the Apollo landing sites. And she serves on the Subcommittee of Space and Aeronautics.

I have no further comment.

Posted by Rand Simberg at February 05, 2002 08:13 AM
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Er, it's not quite a limo. According the article it's a Ford Contour, which Ford no longer makes, so it's obviously a year or two old. And, to paraphrase My Cousin Vinny, a Contour could never be confused with a limousine.

I enjoy poking fun at the hypocrisy of liberals as much as anyone, but calling a Contour a "limousine" is a tad unfair.

Posted by John McGuinness at February 6, 2002 12:54 PM


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