Virginia Foxx: Health Care Reform Is A Bigger Threat Than "Any Terrorist Right Now In Any Country" (VIDEO)

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) claimed on Monday that health care reform is a bigger threat than terrorism -- the latest incendiary comment from a Republican lawmaker on the supposedly dire consequences of the legislation.

Speaking on the House floor, the North Carolina lawmaker said:

Everywhere I go in my district, people tell me they are frightened. ... I share that fear, and I believe they should be fearful. And I believe the greatest fear that we all should have to our freedom comes from this room -- this very room -- and what may happen later this week in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill. 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.

Foxx's attack comes just days after Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) said that the health care reform is an issue more important "than the impeachment of President Clinton or even 9/11 and the decision to go to war."

Video, via ThinkProgress:

Also on Monday, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said that health care reform threatened the survival of the two-party system.

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[p and p]

I believe that this woman in particular, and the repubs in general are either crooked or stupid. I also believe they are the ones who are unamerican. At the very least, they care not for the citizens of this country.

[kemahcw]

health care a bigger fear than terrorism? how low can the repubs go, how stupid they must think we are. there are an estimated 45 K people that die each year from the lack of health care. how many Americans die each year from terrorism? the biggest threat is the terrorist repubs that tell lies about health care reform. while you all are lying and dancing around health care reform an estimated 123 people die each day. STOP playing games with us and act like it's you or one of your children who is getting ready to die because their insurance company has denied the claim or they have reached the money limit imposed upon their policy. people are dying because you all can't get it right. you are responsible for those who have died or will die. the truth of the matter is that you will be held accountable by One far greater than any one of us.
Kemah.

[QOTW]

Poor Virginia - it's time for 'Shady Pines' me thinks.

[rfrey]

I had to sit back and view the video clip of what she said 3 times just to believe that ANYONE could be make that stupid a comparison. I'm really at a loss for words...and the Republicans wonder why they can't get their s@#* together.

[thefixisin]

You know my who life ive been told I attract unstable women, I guess I missed one!

[huffcom09]

It's all part of a BRILLIANT conservative strategy to move the right-wing end of the debate so far to the extreme side of Crazy Town that any future compromise with the Left winds up being more to right than the existing status quo. Instead of negotiating between "No Reform" and "True Reform", the Left has been - unknowingly or otherwise - maneuvered into a choice between "No Reform" - which is good for the insurance industry - and "Reform Acceptable to The Right - which is even better for the insurance industry. While recalling the excitement and hopefulness of election night one year ago, it looks more and more like our president has been played, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

As for Rep Foxxy: she may have made more than her share of inflammatory, outrageous. untrue statements, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds her physically appealing in a Brandine Spuckler/Aunt Bea sort of way.

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

So she's terrorized by people having access to affordable health insurance? Oh the humanity!!!!!

[dragonmaster]

The only threat to this nation is a tutti fruity like representative Fox.

[p and p]

Good Grief Charlie Brown, I love the "tutti fruity" name for her. It could be used for the whole group of the intellectual group of republicans.

[nowarpleez]

I hate conservatives.

[BrickSykes]

..........­........an­d she is my representative in the US Congress!!!!!!!!!

(Why me, Lord,
What did I ever do?....)

Brick

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

My condolences.

[koalaholik]

You were really, really bad in a previous life. You must always vote progressive in this life to repent.

[Amock]

Well my friend from the looks of her SHE will be in need of the health care system in the not too distant future!

[Manhattanite]

Another Republican with serious mental health issues... Yeah, I 'm scared. Of the GOP whack_jobs that contiue to emerge from under their rocks.

[justoverit333]

Look at her face. Seriously. Does she not look insane to you?

[PlanoBlue]

Yes.

[wanda665]

yes

[jeremyfive]

With South Carolina exploding with Republican nut cases. . .

. . . and North Carolina sending the likes of Virginia Foxx. . . .

(yeah, she's the one who thought Matthew Shepard case was fiction!)

doesn't say much for the troubled state of the Carolinas these days.

[Amock]

NOW I remember WHY I left the South and NEVER looked back!

[Martha12]

Foxx should face the most severe sanctions for this hate speech.

There is no excuse for this, how much further will they take this and what else will be said by house members, if this goes unpunished?

[rabblerouser42]

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