It's not surprising that the intelligence of members of Congress has so often been spoofed.
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself," quipped Mark Twain.
Former Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo., related this anecdote: "When I was debating what became the 2008 Farm Bill, I had a member of the Agriculture Committee actually ask me if chocolate milk really comes from brown cows. I asked if he was joking and he assured me he wasn't."
Currently serving Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, once proclaimed that the U.S. Constitution is 400 years old.
As a member of the House Science Committee, during a visit to the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Lab, she asked a NASA scientist whether the Mars Pathfinder probe had photographed the flag that astronaut Neil Armstrong left behind in 1969.
In 2010, Lee proclaimed on the House floor that "Victory had been achieved" by the United States in the Vietnam War and that "Today, we have two Vietnams: side-by-side, north and south, exchanging and working." Lee was a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee when she made that statement.
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