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Foxx News

This is from a blog about local politics I just found, WataugaWatch. Keeps you update on all the political wackiness of the western end of the Tarheel state. Here is it's latest about our favorite NC politica, Virginia Foxx:

"Stupid Is As Stupid Does

That's Congresswoman Virginia Foxx posing with a poser, one Patrick Thacker, who was passing himself off as a representative of the U.S. Navy Association. Thacker is not a veteran of the U.S. Navy nor an actual member of the U.S. Navy Assoc. He was a "stand-in" at an expensive Florida political reception for Congresswoman Foxx, who has now gotten herself insinuated into a big investigation of the U.S. Navy Association, which has been nothing more than a political fundraising operation for right-wing politicians, complete with fake business cards and an "office" in Washington, D.C., that's nothing more than a P.O. box in a UPS store.

The tangled corruption, and Foxx's dumb involvement in same, was outlined yesterday in an investigative piece in the St. Petersburg Times. "

The St Petersburg Times - a lonely sane voice in that pestilential swamp to our south.

Foxx News

Once again doing the great state of North Carolina can be proud. This from TPM:

On the House floor today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) warned that health care reform poses a greater threat to American freedoms than "any terrorist right now in any country."

"Everywhere I go in my district, people tell me they are frightened," Foxx began, reports Think Progress. "They fear for the future of our country. What they're talking about is, they fear for our freedoms."

Watch the video. For what it is worth, I live in her district. I returned a post card to her telling her explicetly that I was anxious for government health care and could hardly wait until we get it. But then, I probably am not the type of real American she wants to talk about.

Who knows? Perhaps down here they really ARE that frightened.

well, I least we got rid of Liddy Dole.

There goes our Representative Again...

... making Tarheels so proud. Here she is saying something remarkably stupid.

She is even garnering national attention for our fair state. Here is the quote from the Washington Monthly where I got the link.

"Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) has a habit of saying remarkably dumb things."


Oddly, the folks in her home county of Watauge, who know her best, voted for the other guy.

Not that I bear a grudge....

.... for very long. I am too big a man for that. Hurumph.

But I am greatly relieved to read stuff like this about the dear old Tar Heel state.


I don't believe in sarcasm either.