From the Dumbest Member of Congress, Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX): Obamacare’s Penalty for Not Buying Insurance Isn’t Penalty ‘Because Penalty is Punishment,’

She is not the only celery stalk in congress.

From the Dumbest Member of Congress, Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX): Obamacare's Penalty for Not Buying Insurance Isn't Penalty 'Because Penalty is Punishment,' Scotty Starnes | February 17, 2011 at 10:05 PM | Tags: dipshit liberal, Obamacare, ObamaCare penalty, Sheila Jackson Lee | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-4s3

Sheila Jackson Lee continues to prove herself to be the dumbest Congress critter to ever serve. Her list of laugh-producing comments is long. From claiming there is two Vietnams to asking if the MARS rover took pictures of the flag Neil Armstrong left, one can see Jackson-Lee isn't the brightest bulb in the bunch. Her latest comment is a read head-scratcher. She claims the penalty for not purchasing insurance isn't really a penalty.

From CNSNews.com:

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D.-Texas) told the House Judiciary Committee yesterday that the "penalty" that the health-care law enacted last year by Congress imposes on individuals who do not buy health insurance is not in fact a penalty.

The law itself states: "If an applicable individual fails to meet the requirement of subsection (a) [having a government-approved health-insurance policy]… there is hereby imposed a penalty with respect to the individual."

Elsewhere, in a section entitled "Payment of Penalty," it says that individuals failing to carry a government-approved health insurance policy must pay a maximum penalty of $750.

In Rep. Jackson-Lee's view, however, this language does not actually impose a penalty.

"I would make the argument, one, that instead it is an incentive to do right--that it is not penalizing because penalty is punishment," Jackson-Lee told the Judiciary Committee.

"You're not punished if you have health insurance, in fact. And so you are, in fact, incentivized to have health insurance, rather than take the negative which is to suggest that because we have a penalty you are being punished," Rep. Jackson-Lee said. 

Liberalism is a mental illness.

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