Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee served as a member of the House Science Committee and the Ranking Member on the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee.

And has spent almost 30 years in Congress.

She’s also an almost unbelievable idiot.

There was a story going around that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee when visiting the Johnson Space Center asked whether the Mars Pathfinder would be able to find “the flag the astronauts planted there before”.

Rep. Lee’s people denied that one up and down. Unfortunately for her, this one was caught on video.

“You’ve heard the word ‘full moon.’ Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases,” Jackson Lee, 74, told teenage pupils who gathered on a sports field ahead of the rare celestial event.

And that’s why the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon? Are the gases such that we could do that?” the congresswoman said.

You have the energy of the moon at night,” she told the kids.

“I don’t know about you, I want to be first in line to know how to live and to be able to survive on the moon,” Jackson Lee added. “That’s another planet which we’re going to see shortly.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is a compulsive attention hog and there was no way she was going to pass up an opportunity to get some eclipse action. Her stupidity eclipsed the eclipse, but that’s okay because being a member of the right party, this won’t even get any mention outside the usual outlets. Had any Republican said half the things she said, they’d be a permanent punching bag, but in the age of purely partisan political satire, she has nothing to worry about.

But this is what the people voted for and they deserve it good and hard.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has reclaimed the Democratic mantle that she’s long held in Texas’ 18th Congressional District. Jackson Lee fended off a well-funded primary challenge by former Houston City Council Member Amanda Edwards. The preliminary count showed Jackson Lee winning by a margin of 60.23% to 37.19%.

My favorite Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee line still comes from her failed mayoral campaign.

When the Houston Chronicle asked her why she was running, she replied, among other things, that, “I have been a leader in human and sex trafficking.”

Like most things she says, it’s probably best not to think too hard about that sentence.

Here’s to another 30 years at the end of which she can be the House Speaker. Or at least some senior position.