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Rep. Foxx: Health Care Reform More Dangerous 'Than Any Terrorist'
Rachel Slajda | November 2, 2009, 2:26PM
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
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On the House floor today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) warned that health care reform poses a greater threat to American freedoms than "any terrorist right now in any country."
"Everywhere I go in my district, people tell me they are frightened," Foxx began, reports Think Progress. "They fear for the future of our country. What they're talking about is, they fear for our freedoms."
Video after the jump.
I share that fear, and I believe they should be fearful. And I believe the greatest fear that we all should have to our freedom comes from this room, this very room. And what may happen later this week, in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill. I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country.
Foxx is no stranger to hyperbole. Earlier this year, for example, she said a Republican health care bill "will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government," as opposed to the Democrats' bill.
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Beagle
November 2, 2009 4:45 PM
Of all the crazies out there, this woman petrifies me the most.
It is mind boggling that she is actually elected to an office that someone voted for her.
By the way, this is the same person who claimed that Matthew Shepard's death was merely the result of a robbery gone bad and therefore it is "A Hoax".
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rbeats
November 2, 2009 4:45 PM
Ohh the American Taliban, now now now Rep. Foxx
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CranialRectalLoopback
November 2, 2009 4:46 PM
Drop the second 'x' in your last name, Congressbag.
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commie atheist
November 2, 2009 5:00 PM in reply to CranialRectalLoopback
...or just change it to FoKKKs, which would be more accurate.
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geofu54
November 2, 2009 4:47 PM
Damn, another pair of spinny eyes...
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mikedrevguy
November 2, 2009 5:43 PM in reply to geofu54
it's the cool-aid
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fsudirectory
November 2, 2009 4:47 PM
The anonymous "people" or "constituents" is so overused these days that the "people" or "constituents" could very well be themselves or relatives, so much that I have to ignore most people who state this as a claim for something... especially with this woman (maybe a man?)
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daveinnc
November 2, 2009 4:49 PM
I live in NC-5 and Foxx is my rep. I have never been more embarrassed by who represented my district in my life, and I've lived all over the U.S.
She's a worthless pile of dung and we desperately need an opposing candidate here in the great Blue Ridge. I'm sorry, folks. I never voted for her, not ever.
Dave
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
November 2, 2009 4:53 PM in reply to daveinnc
Ditto, ditto and ditto, except for the lived all over the U.S. part.
But I came from the state that gave us McConnell and Bunning, moved to the state of Jesse Helms and a few other safely gerrymandered wingnut representatives and she is, by far, the foulest, most horrid acid spewing old harpy I've ever had the misfortune to "represent" me. At times I truly wonder if Vernon Robinson (who she beat in her first primary and her only real race) really would have been worse.
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Official A
November 2, 2009 6:03 PM in reply to daveinnc
Ditto here. So sorry, America. Too bad the NC Dems can't find a decent candidate to run against this embarrassment.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
November 2, 2009 9:07 PM in reply to Official A
I mean, seriously, WTF is up with that? It's like the thought of running against this evil old battleaxe causes every viable Democrat in the District to lose bladder control.
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commie atheist
November 2, 2009 5:01 PM
I thought all the lunatics were from South Carolina. How did this one manage to escape North?
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
November 2, 2009 9:10 PM in reply to commie atheist
How does the bastion of sanity known as Minnesota produce a Michelle Bachmann? How does sensible Iowa give us a Steve King? How can Hoffman be ahead in New York 23?
Local demographic swirls meets the gerrymandering technique known as packing.
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commie atheist
November 3, 2009 1:42 AM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Somebody should take this Jerry Mander guy and go all Tom Cable on his ass.
Seriously though, the way that congressional districts are created is a travesty.
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_jonny_5_
November 2, 2009 5:01 PM
Classy as usual...
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Willa Standing
November 2, 2009 5:05 PM
Roy Carter, a sane, rational man, a science teacher, coach, and devoted family man, ran against Foxx in the last election and was defeated. It's almost impossible to imagine that there is a place in the world that would prefer this complete nutball over a man like Roy Carter, but apparently, she won handily.
She has said some of the most appallingly crazy things on the floor of the house, the kind of things that in a normal world, would get someone locked up in a loony bin. Yet she prevails.
Knowing that there are people who elect a woman like this keeps me out of North Carolina, as much as I love that state. I used to vacation there, but I can't stand to spend any money in a state who has representatives like this. Same for South Carolina and several other states, mostly southern, but same goes for Minnesota.
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ejg3
November 2, 2009 5:43 PM
She actually has a doctorate in education and was a college English professor . So much for all the folks in liberal arts being liberals. And to be fair to the Carolinas, although she has spent a good deal of her career there, she was born in the Bronx (and they will probably cheer that she left).
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slb
November 2, 2009 7:37 PM in reply to ejg3
Well, I guess that tells us part of what is wrong with the educational system in this country.
If she was born in the Bronx, I think her family must not have stayed there long. That ain't no Bronx accent she has.
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Peter Principle
November 2, 2009 5:53 PM
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) warned that health care reform poses a greater threat to American freedoms than "any terrorist right now in any country."
For years I thought Al Qaeda was the biggest threat to freedom in all of recorded human history -- because the Republicans told me so. Then they told me it was was Saddam Hussein. Then it was the president of Iran. Then it was ACORN.
And now I find out that it's actually health care reform???
Way to head fake me, GOP.
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tosh
November 2, 2009 5:56 PM
Fear of the freedoms of Big Health to continue to rip them off.
It's really sad that the Idiot Vote in this country has no idea how they are getting worked.
John
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Waltz
November 2, 2009 6:55 PM
Crazy crazy crazy crazy
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jeffgee
November 2, 2009 7:05 PM
If she's really principled, she'd give up her taxpayer-funded health care-for-life.
But she's not. She's just another GOP hypocrite scaring voters.
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susanthe
November 2, 2009 8:16 PM
This from a woman on Medicare?
STFU!
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Armageddon T. Thunderbird
November 2, 2009 8:37 PM
The Christian Taliban has spoken.
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labman57
November 2, 2009 9:13 PM
I would love to see Palin, Bachmann, and Foxx compete in a few rounds of the JayWalking All-Stars quiz game on Leno's new show.
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MarkOfOhio
November 3, 2009 6:37 AM in reply to labman57
Wow. Palin, Bachmann, and Foxx. The Three Stooges. What losers! Incredible.
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BabyBelle
November 2, 2009 10:25 PM
Funny that her last name is Foxx
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FlownOver
November 2, 2009 10:40 PM
To quote Eric Idle in the travel agency sketch, "What a silly bunt."
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thepeoplechoose
November 3, 2009 1:56 AM
Any time I hear a republican expressing concern about preserving our freedoms I think immediately of eight years of Bush and how our freedoms were so bloodied by all the treasonous liars of that administration. Not that you can even make a comparison between the healthcare fiasco and the things Bush did. You can't.
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EastWest
November 3, 2009 2:28 AM
Come on, guys. Give her a break. Just by looking, you can see that she's been seriously let down by medical science. I mean, that whole glass eye thing.... Creepy.
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VictorLaszlo
November 3, 2009 3:19 AM in reply to EastWest
"I've been telling my constituents that health care reform will kill them, and now for some reason they're afraid of it. So we have to kill it."
Paraphrased.
There is actually very, very little opposition to HCR in this country. Nearly all the opposition you read about is based on blatant, obvious lies.
People aren't against HCR, they're against forced euthanasia. Which of course has nothing to do with HCR.
So stupid.
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Dave Adams
November 3, 2009 4:57 AM
I would love it of someone had simply shouted out:
"Duck! It s SINGLE PAYER! ARRRGGGHHH!"
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