HuffPo: What an Ogress You Are, Congresswoman Foxx

[MadBadger]

by Michael Rowe

The comments made today by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) during the House of Representatives debate on the expansion of hate crimes legislation to include, among other things, sexual orientation and gender identity, suggests that a new strain of swine flu is sweeping the Republican Party---a morally porcine variant. Thus far, its symptoms include a Tourette-like impulse to horrify, and a predilection for politically expedient revisionism at whatever moral cost.

Addressing the House, Rep. Foxx claimed that the murder of Matthew Shepard, widely perceived to be the most famous gay bashing hate crime in recent American history, was in fact a "hoax," perpetrated by activists eager to pass "these bills."

Politico reports that according to a senior Democratic aide, Matthew Shepard's mother, anti-hate crimes activist Judy Shepard, was in the gallery watching when Rep. Foxx said, "I also would like to point out that there was a bill -- the hate crimes bill that's called the Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay. This -- the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it's really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills," she said....



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rowe/what-an-ogress-you-are-co_b_193167.html

[annabanana]

1. disgusting woman

shameful sentiments...

[phantom power]

2. I'll give them a 9.5 just for using the word "Ogress" in a sentence.

[gratuitous]

3. Every time you think they've reached rock bottom

They find a way to dig themselves in even deeper. Absolutely repugnant, uninformed and incredibly tasteless. Dead baby jokes would be a step up for Rep. Foxx. She'd need the fucking Hubble Telescope to read "Suck It" written on the bottom of Satan's shoes.

I'm marking this for later, so I can review Rep. Foxx's home page and see what she says about herself.

[Maven]

4. Vile cretin.

That she can even get away with saying that on the floor of Congress and no one calls for her immediate resignation is infuriating.

[barbtries]

5. his mother was listening.

how she managed to keep herself from jumping foxx i don't know. i'm not sure i could be that well controlled. what a sack of shit.

[NikolaC]

6. What A Disgusting

sorry, vile excuse for a human being she is. I feel horrible that Matthew Shepard's mother had to listen to what that thing had to say about her son.

[noiretextatique]

7. email this vile person and let her know exactly what you think of her disgusting comments

http://www.foxx.house.gov/?sectionid=95§iontree=3,95

[MadBadger]

8. I plan on calling her office

[gratuitous]

9. Sweet merciful Jesus, look at her official website!

Any resemblance between this pitiful piece of internet crap and a certain website run by one Jim Robinson is purely coincidental, I'm sure:

http://www.foxx.house.gov/

The format scares me; I'm afraid to click on anything, but here's a sample of some of the "links":

Problems with your 9-digit Zip Code?
Presidential Greetings
Fact or Fiction? (Under Issues and Legislation)

I have a whole bunch of comments to make about this, but the website just screams for itself.