Pelosi nixes Jackson Lee’s Jackson tribute
Wow! Pelosi showed courage and did the right thing:House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday abruptly blocked an effort by Houston Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to have the House of Representatives pass a resolution honoring pop star Michael Jackson as an international humanitarian.Pelosi’s reasoning:She didn’t want to open up a congressional debate on the seamier side of the pop icon’s life.’I don’t think it’s necessary for us to have a resolution,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference.house members have had every opportunity to “express their sympathy or their praise” for Jackson, she said, but a formal resolution with debate on both sides of the aisle was a different story.at Jackson’s Los Angeles memorial service on Tuesday, Jackson Lee eulogized the entertainer as “our icon.”She held up a framed copy of the proposed 1,500-word resolution praising Jackson as “an American legend and musical icon and an international humanitarian, someone who will be h