There are some real idiots on both sides of the political aisle who managed to get elected, but Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is on par with Michele Bachmann. She claimed that "health care reform is a bigger threat than terrorism." Really Ms. Foxx? Is this bill is worst than Osama bin Laden. You know, the ringleader of Al-Quaida who we still have not been able to catch. The same one President Bush said was "not a top priority use of American resource," just months after he said he wanted him "dead or alive." You see, she's no stranger to making incendiary comments. She referred to Matthew Shepard's hate-motivated murder as "a hoax," on the floor when the hate crimes legislation bearing his name came up for a vote. She uttered patently ridiculous comment about health care reform while speaking on the House floor:
Everywhere I go in my district, people tell me they are frightened. ... 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.She's not the only Republican who has made incendiary comments of this nature. Her attack comes days after Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) said that the health care reform is an issue more important "than the impeachment of President Clinton or even 9/11 and the decision to go to war." All I have to ask is if she really represent the will of her constituents? I have no issue if you disagree with health care reform, especially what the Democrats are proposing, but to say that it is a far bigger threat than terrorism is just insulting to all the men and women in harm's way fighting to keep the United States safe from Al-Quaida and any other terrorist groups out there.
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