Rep. Foxx: "Fool Me Once, Shame On You. Fool Me Twice, Shame On You." (VIDEO)

Yesterday, speaking from the floor of the House, Rep. Virginia Foxx stumbled into some tricky rhetorical territory. Using her pen for emphasis, she declared, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you." (h/t Media Matters)

Rep. Foxx isn't the first Republican to have gotten into trouble with the "fool me once" phraseology. In 2002, "W" Bush said: "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."

Comments

[chandu11]

Foxx to her supporters:

Vote for me once, shame on you.
Vote for me twice, shame on you.

[DoctorWhoDat]

She must have been thinking about a trip to Argentina.

[TheWanderer]

She then, unaccountability, began screaming "You kids get out of my yard!"

[TheWanderer]

Fool me thrice, uh...mmm..you're threatening my freedom of speech!

[Nyah Molineaux]

Yes shame on us Americans for putting Rep. Foxx in any political office. The way she is she would not even be working at the post office.

[MadHeart]

Voted against Katrina funding. She's an abomination.

[abbeyroad]

Granny needs a warm bowl of prunes and a long nap.

[metaphysicist]

i have been saying this for YEARS!!!!

[grasyknol]

She's the same lady who kept interupting my newly elected Representative with some legislative ploy to prevent her from talking.

[YBLIB]

WOW !!!! What a ground breaking story!! Worthy of a Pulitzer ,I think. Can somebody direct me to the Biden gaffe section please? I need to waste the day.

[GayMark]

There isn't enough bandwidth to sustain a Biden gaffe section.

[chandu11]

That would be on foxnoose.com
Also, if this is such a waster, why did you bother to read, then comment.
Obviously, you have too much time on your hands.
Move along now.

[Jeffersonian1]

How do you fool a fool?

[Horus45]

It's because Republicans refuse to accept Shame for anything they do!

[SteadyOn]

Persactly.

[BlackWidowPilot]

It they have been very busy little people indeed:

http://www.armchairsubversive.org

http://www.republicanoffenders.com

Hypocrisy incarnate, thy name remains GOP, as in "Greedy Old Perverts" "Goring Our Progress" and "Gutting Our Prosperity."

Yeeeach.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[sasson]

Why did she clutch her chest and start saying "This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!" I hope that she is ok.

[Disuberence]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[RollingEyes]

lol!!! Now that's funny!

[sasson]

Oh, who cares, and I say this as a Democrat. Look at how many people mangle posts on this website when he actually have the opportunity to preview posts. Every one does it, so let's not be so self-righteous when someone else does. Attack the Republicans on the substance of what they say, doing otherwise implies that you can not do so.

[sasson]

The "he" instead of "we" was intentional. As was "Every one." See, it is just that easy.

[truenortherner]

What I see as the problem here, is that beyond being a misspoken comment, this is an example of their mentality. When they screw up, it's someone else's fault.
I see a lot of substance in that.

[sasson]

I disagree and think of it as nothing but fluff, but your argument is equally if not more valid.

[chandu11]

We do attack repugs on the substance of what they say and also on trivial mistakes like this one.
We CAN do both. They're not mutually exclusive.

[HST]

Ah the good ones never die, that's why the GOP is slowly fading away.

[Durango]

What does it take to be a Congressman/woman in this country?

Are there no standards? Are we so dumbed down that politicians are no longer accountable?

Or is it just Republicans who are so dumbed down?