by Pam Spaulding Ah, it’s pathetically ignorant, perpetually re-elected NC U.S. Congresscritter Virginia Foxx opening her trap again to contribute batsh*ttery to the public discourse and historical record with the ludicrous claim on the House...
By Paul Bedard | usnews.com | November 19, 2009 A comment by oft-controversial North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx had Democrats choking down anger again today. On the House floor, Foxx suggested that it was the Republicans, not Democrats or President Lyndon B. Johnson, who pushed through the civil rights acts of the 1960s. Says Ryan Rudominer, spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign...
So I slept on it, and I was feeling pretty about about getting all mad as heck because Representatives aren't exactly known for their rocket science or their brain surgery. It's not like this is a fresh new angle on the House — the one not known as the more deliberative body of the Congress — as a moment of non-anger-clouded recollection reminded me that the House of Representative has...
I watched today as Virginia Foxx a Republican Congresswoman from North Carolina say that the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Legislation. I will not post the clip here or the Democratic Congressman accusing her of lying. I just can't stomach that cross-eyed bitch on my blog page again. She is an English professor and not a historian so I guess you have to forgive her utter ignorance, but the Democrats...
This is a HOOT! Nothin like rewriting history to make a point, eh? Get this: Matt Corley / Think Progress: Foxx: Republicans ‘Passed Civil Rights Bills Back In The 60s Without Very Much Help’ From Democrats During a debate on the House floor today over designating 21 miles of the Molalla River as “wild and scenic,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who opposes the legislation, tried...
I would have said Foxx (R-NC) made an ass of herself, but we won't malign that noble beast here. Watch it : FOXX: ... and actually the GOP has been the leader in starting good environmental programs in this, in this country, uh, just as we were the people who passed the Civil Right bills back in the '60's, without very much help from our colleagues across the aisle. They love to engage in revisionist...
I speak tonight of GOP Rep. Virginia Foxx AGAIN, after this time she tried to pass off the GOP as being the party of civil rights legislation . Luckily, she was rather forcefully corrected by Democratic Rep. Dennis Cardoza of California: CARDOZA: Today, what I’m hearing on the floor really takes the cake. The gentlelady from North Carolina, in her statement just now, indicated that the Republican...
Chris Matthews, on Thursday's Hardball, took GOP Congresswoman Virginia Foxx to task for claiming that Republicans "passed civil rights bills in the sixties" as he accused her of having a bad memory, going as far as to compare her to one of the androids from the science fiction classic Blade Runner : Up next wait ‘til you hear the latest from Congresswoman, whoa! Wait ‘til you...
Leave it to Norh Carolina Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx to make yet another foolish and insulting statement in what almost is becoming old hat for her. In a debate about a project that mostly was unrelated, Foxx used the opportunity (and the platform it provided) to attack Democrats and prop up Republicans using the Civil Rights Movement as her [...]
Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.), stunned, tried to set Foxx straight, pointing to the role of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations of the 1960s. "John Lewis, a member of this House, was beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge to get that civil rights legislation passed," Cardoza reminded Foxx. "Tell John Lewis that he wasn't part of getting that legislation passed."
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), whose classiness we have noted before , has reached to the bottom of the barrel and pulled up the stalest of wingnut chestnuts : THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS!!!1! . Yes, Virgina, once upon a time, the Republican Party had some moderate -- dare we even say -- liberal members, and yes, way back when, the Democratic Party still had its Strom Thurmonds...
For the last several years, we've been chronicling efforts by far-right activists like David Barton and the National Black Republican Association to claim that throughout American history it has been Republicans who have been the champions of civil rights while Democrats were the party of racists and it seems that this idea has now worked its way into the House of Representatives thanks to Rep. Virginia...
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