That’s what third-term U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said this week in expressing her mega-displeasure with the proposed health care reforms being proposed by her Democratic colleagues and President Obama.

Foxx is yet another dim bulb masquerading as a “responsible public official” serving on Capitol Hill. To be sure, she has plenty of company. U.S. Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson, R-S.C., and Rep. Alan “Die Quickly” Grayson, D-Fla., recently have taken their places in the pantheon of pitiful public officials.

Foxx now can join them.

It’s one thing to debate public policy on its merits. It’s quite another to sputter hyperbole, taking it to ridiculous extremes.

The health care reforms have drawn plenty of legitimate criticism from reasonable opponents such as Rep. Mac Thornberry of Clarendon. The statements coming from Virginia Foxx — suggesting the reforms pose more of a danger than al-Qaida or the loons who govern Iran — need to be called what they are: baloney.