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Wacky Southern belle Virginia Foxx, the dingbat congresswoman from North Carolina whose other hits this year include calling the Matthew Shepard beating a “hoax” and for some reason using the word “tarbaby” on the House floor, has now delivered a nuclear bomb of hyperbolic meaninglessness: “I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that [health care] bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country.” Ever. [Media Matters]
What is up with these wingnut ladies all having a severe case of the crazy eyes?
She’s obviously aiming for Michelle Bachmann’s throne
these folks are working themselves to such levels of hysteria and silliness that it has to be performance art.
How about NC and SC secede and we make it the homeland of the teabaggers, birthers and racists? also GOP crazy politicians
Best female comb-over ever. Maybe the only one.
Redd’s widow was a crazy racist bitch? I can see where he got a lot of his material.
Virginia: (CROSSING HER EYES) I have always preferred the syntax of strangers.
(SHE EXITS STAGE RIGHT, WEARING CAROL BURNETT’S DRAPE COSTUME FROM THE PARODY OF “GONE WITH THE WIND”)
These Republicans are all vying for the Hyperbole Awards, or something. (BTW, I’d love to see the Hyperbole Awards. They’d be the best, funniest, most moving, awesomest fucking awards ever, of all time, in history. Period.)
She makes a strong argument. I’m convinced.
I didn’t even have to click “play” to get a good laugh at Doug Hoffman’s mommy.
She may be from North Carolina but she’s no Aunt Bee.
omg Michele Bachmann 20 YEARS IN THE FUTURE
Did people work themselves into this much of a frenzy when the Clintons were doing their death spiral with healthcare? I’m not sure but I don’t think so. It’s a good thing the President isn’t Jewish as well as black, she’d be setting herself on fire on the House floor.
Hopefully, in about 50 years, reference to a member of the ‘Republican party’ will elicit the same puzzled response as referring to a member of the Greenback Party.
I’ll bet she’s not a cool Grandma. She has that “Virginia-Slims and Hard-Candy-in-a-Waterford-Dish” Grandma look to her. You know the type: $5 on your birthday, underwear for Christmas, and endless bitching if you spill the milk.
My Grandma may be 88, but at least she’s cool.
I’ll bet her house is overpopulated with cats, just a hunch.
I wonder if Brooke H. could sex that up a little.
Well, she’s right insofar as that the war on terror is less important than health care, I think, but for more or less opposite reasons.
Also, nice Golden Girls prop jacket.
I don’t see the problem, all she did was calculate the odds of several things happening and the first one that had lower odds than Health Care Reform came up as “Terrorist Attack”. If you want something to blame, just blame the comically outdated computer with like a black-with-green-lettering-screen I imagine her hunt-and-peck-style typing on. (sorry I went all David Foster Wallace with that)
Ya know I live in Virginia and most of our fox carry rabies.
MLHencken: Virginia Foxxxx was Michelle Bachmannnn’s nannnny.
More lapel pin.
When I think of a Southern belle, I think of Dixie chicks and Reese Witherspoon.
Rep Foxx looks like Large Marge.
I thought that Henry Gibson was dead? also
But what about the robots???!!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340/saturday-night-live-old-glory
North Carolians must vote drunk because there is no way a sober person could look at her, listen to her and decide to vote for her.
She hates things that are different so much, she only owns two Talbot’s blazers.
chascates: don’t you know she would put Barney Fife into a tailspin
The Keebler elves have a health care insurance policy. Unfortunately, it does not cover mental illness.
dum librul: Here she is without make-up.
Tax increase? omfg, that would be worse than a terrorist flying a plane into a building!
The Church of Realism: Those without robot insurance will be forced to pay out of pocket to replace medication stolen and devoured by the cold, cold stomachs of the robot terror.
PrairiePossum: I’d like to think that Virginians vote drunk, because we are about to have three whackjobs in our top three offices (Gov, Lt Gov, AG), all because the brilliant voters have decided that we need better transportation solutions, but none that involve money. McDonnell and Cucchinelli are deeply scary human beings (Daddy raped you, little girl? Too bad, you get to raise the baby! Oh, and evolution is a big lie), but since they promise not to tax anything, ever AND solve all our traffic problems, then, hey, let’s vote for them.
I am going to vote tomorrow, and then I will be sad.
That’s Joe Pesci, right, doing is Virginia Foxx routine?
AggieDemocrat: Not only would they be awesome, they could fundamentally change the way the whole world communicates. Politicians would watch their every word for fear of being nominated.
Her statement is accurate so long as one understands “we” to be the GOP, and what is feared to be a loss at the polls.
Rumors of Estelle Getty’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
Jesus, what rock did she climb out from under?
Wasn’t she a character on Mayberry, RFD?
proudgrampa: Only if Aunt Bea became a succubus.
proudgrampa: No one in Mayberry was that mean. Also no one in Mayberry was Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Jewish.
binarian: The health insurance companies did, but not actual elected Republicans, no, except for Gingrich. Of course, that was the year before most of the truly crazy Rep congresscritters began to get voted in.
OK then. I feel a War on Healthcare coming up. Let’s start wiretapping doctors’ offices to see if they ever commit treason by dissing Our Insurance Overlords.
Let’s not lump NC in with SC. Sure there’s a few like Virginia F that need to find a new hobby, but remember, the Prez carried NC a year ago. Not that Virginia isn’t a complete embarrassment. We’re not perfect in the “North State” but we’re about a hundred years more progressive than our southern neighbor.
Accordion-o-rama: Orrin Hatch said pretty much just that: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/65853-hatch-health-bills-threaten-two-party-system
I believe that we have more to fear from this woman than a terrorist attack.
GOP–the reincarnation of the Visigoths as they contemplate Rome.
Oh, look. Roads, aqueducts, and libraries. Let’s burn ‘em!
I can’t wait until Bill O’Reilly sends one of his lackeys after her, like he did with Rep. Grayson, to ask her why she would say such outrageous stuff.
Wait, she is a Republican?
Nevermind. People are just talking about her because she is so beautiful, like Michelle Bachmann.
chascates: Or she may be from THE BRONX. True story.
I am very very threatened by the idea of universal health care. Look what english healthcare did to Virginia’s daughter. It turned her into a whore.
MSP: Amen. And we have BBQ, Cheerwine, Krispy Kreme, Pepsi, Texas Pete… Research Triangle Park, UNC Chapel Hill, NCSU, Duke (although we normally just call them the University of New Jersey, Durham campus), Wake Forest University, Greensboro Sit-ins, and to think, we also used to be able to say John Edwards.
Doglessliberal:
Voters who want government services but don’t want to pay for them are the dumbest sons of bitches I have ever met. They believe on Christmas morning they will wake up and find asphalt and metro trains tucked in their Christmas stockings.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Stop! Or My Mom Will Declare a Point of Order!
Of course like in true GOPer fashion, she’s one of many GOPers actually on Medicare.
Hypocritical like a Foxx.
Little known TRUE FACT:
Back in the early-50s, she starred in a series of risque stag reels under the nom de poon “Vagina Foxxx”.
(And by “risque stag reels”, I mean short, b&w films which depicted sundry illicit sex acts with anonymous male deer.)
You know, this stuff about the GOP being old, white and southern is obvously wrong.
If you’re Representative Foxx, there is no bigger danger than those non-boneless chicken wings. If you aren’t careful when you bite down, that sumbitch could break in half and lodge in your throat.
PrairiePossum: Perhaps they simply have a perverse sense of humor.
Isn’t it fox hunting season in Leesburg or one of those toney horse country suburbs of DC?
Someone set the hounds on this hag instead of some innocent critter.
To be fair, “Real America” has no fucking clue what it’s like to actually experience a terrorist attack. It’s less a horrific loss of life and more of an opportunity to write terrible country songs about killing brown people. Which, if you’re from NC, is pretty awesome and probably way better than guvmint healthcare that will probably give you a case of the gays.
lawrenceofthedesert: That was a really great episode of the Carol Burnett show. I laughed until I split my appendectomy stitches.
One more X in that name and she’d made a great porn star.
doxastic: “…opportunity to write terrible country songs…” Or beat plowshares into swords.
Somehow — Bachmann, Palin, Foxx — there was a fatal flaw in what we once thought feminism would lead to.I just don’t get it.
finallyhappy: Hey, I live in NC and my rep is a good Dem and a good human being, as far as I can tell. But what is it with the two batshit crazy womens from NC? I’m glad there are at least two C.D.s between myself and this sort of wingnuttery. As we say here, the yankees are taking over, but go 30 miles in any direction and it’s the South again.
Virginia ain’t no Foxx.
EdFlinstone: zing!
doxastic: Oh, but the Real Americans” are totally convinced Al Queda is investing millions of dollars to blow up Orly’s five-store strip mall in Prosperity, South Carolina. I kid you not.
I’d hit it.
With a stick.
Extemporanus:
She’s never denied it, has she?
Good God- it’s all moiré and ears.
Let’s be clear, Virginia may be Southern, but she ain’t no Foxx, and I’ll be damned if she’ll ever be described as anything even remotely resembling a belle, excepting her physical shape, of course.