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Foxx: Not so much to fear from terrorists

Maybe another way to look at Rep. Virginia Foxx's "health-care reform is scarier than terrorists" statement today (see Mark's post) is that terrorists aren't so scary.

Is that a vote of confidence for the Obama administration's handle on national security?

Look, you've got to stretch when trying to make sense of anything Virginia Foxx says.

The Democrats are stretching, too, when they respond in a news release: " 'If you haven't met Virginia Foxx, an extreme right wing Republican House Member from North Carolina you should because she, Glenn Beck, Sarah Plain (sic) and Michele Bachmann are the new and most powerful faces of the GOP,' said DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse."

Virginia Foxx, one of the top four "new and most powerful faces" of the GOP?

Hardly. She's a low-ranking, minority-party representative who wouldn't get much attention if not for her habit of making dumb statements.

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Posted by Doug Clark on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:05 pm

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Mark Binker

November 2, 2009 - 4:55 pm EST

She also gets a lot of attention because she has a seat on the House Rules Committee, so she spends a lot of time on the floor as bill manager...which, in turn, gives her ample opportunity to make attention-getting statements.

Doug

November 2, 2009 - 5:01 pm EST

She's listed as the lowest-ranking Republican on the committee ...

http://rules.house.gov/rules_members.htm

... so I'm still not buying the "powerful face" thing.

Mark Binker

November 2, 2009 - 6:00 pm EST

Well, no, that's a silly thing to say. But the amount of ink one gets, at least in this case, is proportional to the amount of times one has the opportunity to open their mouth.

Doug

November 2, 2009 - 6:42 pm EST

I don't know. Someone who makes a lot of bland statements won't generally get much ink. Foxx speaks a lot and says dumb things a lot. Open mouth, insert foot, as they say.

tonymo

November 3, 2009 - 12:06 pm EST

Well, she's certainly no John Edwards is she Mark! She just a mirror image of Nacny Pelosi, but without the power to destroy our economic system. I hate the "Public" oprtion, but I just might go for that "Consumer" option. I think the differences between the two are obvious, to a damaged liberal mind!

And how about Mrs. Pelosi's brilliant explanation of how letting tax cuts lapse is not a tax increase, but just removal of a tax decrease. I wonder why we never see Binker chronicle some of the truly mindless Pelosi ststements, and worse yet actions.

I wonder if any on the left believe that Pelosi is a "left-wing" extremist. Doubtful! And she runs the House. What would Clark and Binker say if Fox was Speaker! I don't even dare guess, though Pelosi is much more dangerous!

Doug Johnson

November 3, 2009 - 5:31 am EST

Of course she is going to get bad press from a bunch of left wing liberals.
Strange neither of you mentioned the Wall Street Journal called this the worst piece of legislation , ever written.
Foxx, Coulter, Allen, bad.republicans.
Allan Grayson good, liberal.
Palin glasses selling like hotcakes.
Beck two number one books in a row!
Palin book to be number one!
Palin porn movie must also be hot, eve since I heard about it on this website, I have been looking for it,
have not found it yet!
Newspaper sells down 10% for year, wonder why?
Could it be they are going after only 20% of the market?
Like I have tried to convince Mr. Robinson, he need a real dog!

SueP

November 3, 2009 - 6:39 am EST

I'm not proud that Ms. Foxx represents any area of my state. She's a late-apologizing homophobe, makes absurd statements that press re-populate for whatever reason (the press should look inside themselves for that reason) and she's generally small-minded. She doesn't have enough oomph to carry off Repub talking points ("health care scarier than terrorists") and is a bad message-carrier for her party. Honestly, if you sat her down and asked her to defend that statement, she couldn't because no one wrote the lines for her.

The WH response was appropriately political and is exactly what Repubs would have done in that situation. She's simply more of the same who never get anything done; she's a caricature of herself and 'leaders' like her will never get anything useful done for the people who live in NC. That's the biggest shame of all (second only to her wild and defamatory and scare-tactic-filled utterances that occasionally make "news of the can you believe she said that?")
).