{"id":1506,"date":"2009-11-04T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/04\/another-dim-bulb-flickers-in-the-house"},"modified":"2009-11-04T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T18:10:00","slug":"another-dim-bulb-flickers-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":"Another dim bulb flickers in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"\"<\/a> Health care reform may be worse than a lot of things. But worse than a terrorist attack?<\/p>\n

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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.<\/div>\n

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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.<\/div>\n

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Foxx now can join them.<\/div>\n

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It’s one thing to debate public policy on its merits. It’s quite another to sputter hyperbole, taking it to ridiculous extremes.<\/div>\n

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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.<\/div>\n\n
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Health care reform may be worse than a lot of things. But worse than a terrorist attack? 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 … Continue reading Another dim bulb flickers in the House<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}