{"id":213,"date":"2009-11-03T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2009-11-03T02:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T10:52:00","slug":"gop-sweetheart-1132009-virginia-foxx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/gop-sweetheart-1132009-virginia-foxx\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sweetheart 11\/3\/2009: Virginia Foxx"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here she is with yet another outlandish accusation.<\/p>\n

Few Republican congressional members have served as a greater fount for hyperbolic and uninformed ranting about health care reform as has Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC). As ThinkProgress previously documented, Foxx has claimed Democratic reforms would mean seniors are \u201c<\/font>put to death by their government<\/a>,\u201d that health reform is a \u201c<\/font>distraction<\/a>,\u201d and that \u201cthere are<\/font> no Americans who don\u2019t have health care<\/a>.\u201d She was at it again today on the House floor, arguing that health reform is a greater threat to our country than \u201cany terrorist right now in any country\u201d<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n

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Breaking Big Insurance\u2019s death grip on America is more dangerous any terrorist anywhere? Folks, this is not some tea bagger home schooled only in KJV in the family outhouse.  This is a member of Congress.  Only a true GOP Sweetheart could tell such an outlandish lie on the floor of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here she is with yet another outlandish accusation. Few Republican congressional members have served as a greater fount for hyperbolic and uninformed ranting about health care reform as has Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC). As ThinkProgress previously documented, Foxx has claimed Democratic reforms would mean seniors are \u201cput to death by their government,\u201d that health reform […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}