Sometimes you see a tweet on Twitter or a blog post with a link, but you can’t look at it right now. So you open a tab and leave it sitting till you have time to work your way through the backlog, or till you have so many browser tabs open that you declare Web Bankruptcy and close them all. So it was with a link that led to this video. Someone tweeted it last night, and by the time I got to it I had forgotten who, so I can’t give credit.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee apparently has a problem with history. It’s not some obscure bit of ancient history that might trip up anyone. No, this is history about Viet Nam. She was born in 1950, so America’s involvement in Viet Nam happened during her lifetime. So how did she come to believe that there are TWO Viet Nams, a North and a South, existing side by side today in peace.

It would be bad enough if she were just another citizen who had a vote that counted the same as yours and mine. But this unspeakable piece of ignorance is the congressional representative for the 18th district of Texas. And people wonder why the US government has so much trouble dealing with so many issues.

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