Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Last week over at StarkReports.com, I began asking republican opponents of health care reform if they could tell me how many of their constituents are uninsured. I asked Joe Wilson , Steve King , Jim DeMint , Darryl Issa and Virginia Foxx . None of them could answer the question. Today, after months of debate, the House vote is upon us. Steve King decided to rally the tea-baggers on the Capitol lawn...
Drunk at idrunk.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Last week over at StarkReports.com, I began asking republican opponents of health care reform if ay could tell me how many of air constituents are uninsured. I asked Joe Wilson, Steve King, Jim DeMint, Darryl Issa & Virginia Foxx. None of am could answer a question. Today, after months of debate, a House vote [...]
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The unusually-tinted Minority Leader of the House, John Boehner (R-OH) has been to the floor repeatedly today to try to extract promises from the Democrats managing the health insurance reform bill that if the Stupak amendment is adopted, they'll work to ensure that the amendment's language survives as a part of the final conference report. To their credit, no one has given that pledge. And their...
Right Angles (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In the last 45 minutes or so, both Rep. Virginia Foxx and Rep. Howard Coble have joined the House debate on the freedom-killing bill that would give the federal government control over the health care decisions of every American.
WOK3 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
How in the world did Foxx get elected?
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
During this afternoon’s Rules Committee hearing to determine which amendments would be introduced during floor debate of the House health care bill, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) announced that everyone can agree that Republicans want “all Americans to have affordable health insurance and good quality health care”: FOXX: I think we should start with the premise that [...]
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
DOWNLOADS: (125) PLAYS: (616) How is that the House Minority Leader can mix up the U.S. Constitution with the Declaration of Independence in front of a Tea Party crowd at the Capitol? Who knows..but he did it, pulling out his pocket copy of the Constitution he's pledged to uphold, today pledging to "stand here with our Founding Fathers, who wrote in the preamble: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...
Deus Ex Malcontent (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Dana Milbank's column in today's Washington Post is required reading, even if you have to sign in to do it. As a service to you nice folks, here's the best of it (and oh how irony can be such a cruel mistress): "Many of the demonstrators chanted 'Weasel Queen,' their pet name for the speaker of the House. Others wore masks of Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.); they...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By (O)CT(O)PUS Notice this poster that equates Holocaust victims with national healthcare reform. Protestors displayed this poster today at a rally near the Capital steps, an event sponsored and organized by House Republicans. More than tasteless hyperbole, it goes far beyond all boundaries of civility and decorum. It is obscene to exploit the Holocaust to score a political point, and it offends me...
The Modern Left (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I have written previously about how the right is using fear tactics in their attempt to stop health care reform. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), compared health care reform to the threat of terrorism: 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. Yesterday, protesters at the GOP anti-health care rally were spotted holding...
Blog on the Run: Reloaded (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I hope North Carolina’s Sue Myrick and Virginia Foxx are proud to be associated with this. Posted in Aiee! Teh stoopid! It burns! Tagged: Holocaust, sue myrick, tea party, teabaggers, virginia foxx
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
...via Matthew Yglesias , this image of Holocaust victims was on display at today's " House Call " protest organized by Michele Bachmann and the Republican House Leadership: Take a closer look: Keep in mind that this wasn't some Glenn Beck-organized 9/12 stunt. This was an event staged by the House Republican leadership -- actual elected officials, members of the U.S. government. Other Republican...
Palin - Bachmann 2012 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
At least that is what much of the media is describing as the group begins it protests today. They come from all over the USA, though, so it may not be fair to suggest they are there because she has established herself as a leader over them, but her message resonates with them: Less government, integrity, no more taxes, and the list could go on and on. Bachmann is,however, playing a part in it. Conservative...
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Last week, I ran into a "centrist" Dem's press conference where made some noise about cloture being a "tough vote" if the health care bill contained a public option. I asked the Senator if he had any idea how many medical bankruptcies were filed in his state last year. He grumbled and shut down the press conference. It was clear that he had no idea what the answer to my question...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
CNN’s Rick Sanchez omitted the left-wing ideology of an organization he cited as he lambasted North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx on Tuesday’s Newsroom for her recent hyperbolic remarks against ObamaCare. Sanchez referenced a figure from the National Priorities Project, a think tank labeled “progressive” by CNN itself in 2007. He also left out some of the context of...
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