Looks like everybody in North Carolina's congressional delegation has found a sitting partner for tonight's State of the Union address. Well, almost everybody. Rep. Patrick McHenry reckons he'll just find any old seat and Sen. Burr didn't disclose his reservations to the press.
Rep. Virginia Foxx reported she'd be sitting with Rep. Yvette Clark, a Democrat from Foxx's hometown, Brooklyn, NY.
Half the interest tonight will be on whether everybody still applauds and boos on the same page as their party. Maybe they'll have cue cards for the Congress?
Showing posts with label Virginia Foxx. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virginia Foxx. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
"You must be Igor."
Cryin' John Boehner and his fellow ministers of silly walks got things back on track today with a time-wasting nine-hour debate and useless vote to repeal health care coverage for millions of Americans.
We knew our own Dutchess of Foscoe, Virginia Foxx, couldn't stand in the shadows for too long without offering some of her own homespun wisdom on the non-issue of the day.
She didn't disappoint.
Foxx took to the House floor early this morning and supposed that the sickest one percent of Americans take up 25 percent of the health care dollars in this country. (We fully expected she'd prescribe a heartfelt long walk in the woods with a short rope for these poor ailing souls, but she surprised us.) Instead, she reckoned that the FDA ought to just relax its rules on growing laboratory organs so we could just whip up new hearts and bladders and spleens as needed!
Under Ms. Foxx's FrankensteinCare plan, if your sitting on the couch and feeling your ticker might just give out, you can run on down to the Wal-Mart and get yourself a replacement one, maybe even one of those fancy ones with a vest and battery packs like Dicky Cheney wears.
Hmm. And who is going to pay for any of this? Wasn't that the point of passing health care reform? No one can afford freakin' health care in this country. And even if you could afford it, if you've got a pre-existing condition such as a hang nail, nobody's gonna issue an insurance policy.
Sadly, Foxx's FrankensteinCare speech was, like the entire health care repeal debate and vote, just an exercise in grandstanding and hypotheticals. Foxx has her Congressional health care package and isn't going to support making health care affordable for anyone and she certainly isn't going to support increasing funding for research (including regenerative medicine).
We knew our own Dutchess of Foscoe, Virginia Foxx, couldn't stand in the shadows for too long without offering some of her own homespun wisdom on the non-issue of the day.She didn't disappoint.
Foxx took to the House floor early this morning and supposed that the sickest one percent of Americans take up 25 percent of the health care dollars in this country. (We fully expected she'd prescribe a heartfelt long walk in the woods with a short rope for these poor ailing souls, but she surprised us.) Instead, she reckoned that the FDA ought to just relax its rules on growing laboratory organs so we could just whip up new hearts and bladders and spleens as needed!
Under Ms. Foxx's FrankensteinCare plan, if your sitting on the couch and feeling your ticker might just give out, you can run on down to the Wal-Mart and get yourself a replacement one, maybe even one of those fancy ones with a vest and battery packs like Dicky Cheney wears.
Hmm. And who is going to pay for any of this? Wasn't that the point of passing health care reform? No one can afford freakin' health care in this country. And even if you could afford it, if you've got a pre-existing condition such as a hang nail, nobody's gonna issue an insurance policy.
Sadly, Foxx's FrankensteinCare speech was, like the entire health care repeal debate and vote, just an exercise in grandstanding and hypotheticals. Foxx has her Congressional health care package and isn't going to support making health care affordable for anyone and she certainly isn't going to support increasing funding for research (including regenerative medicine).
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Maybe they sent her to get an education...
A funny thing happened on the way to the Republican Caucus meeting for our own beloved Virginia Foxx last week.... she stumbled into the Democratic Caucus meeting and didn't take notice until she was already in the room ... surrounded by her Dem pals.The Dutchess of Foscoe, always one to extol the virtues of personal responsiblity, blamed her wandering ways on a staffer for giving her bad directions.
Maybe the staffer sent their boss, the new co-chair of the Higher Education subcommittee, to the meeting for a reason. If she'd stuck around, she might have learned a thing or two.
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