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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Virginia Foxx- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-10-27
U.S. House Rep. Virginia Foxx, from NC-5, aka "HIDE YO' BISCUITS!"
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted its profiles of Virginia Foxx, the sitting U.S. House Representative for North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District, who has inspired the nickname from Capitol Hill staffers of “HIDE YER BISCUITS!” from her bizarre tendency to, even on a six figure salary, to wear large coats to buffets around Washington D.C. hosted by lobbyists, and stuff her pockets full of as much food as she can carry in them as if her salary does not provide her with enough cash to afford groceries, while maintaining the contradictory optics of trying to cut funding to the National School Lunch Program.
When Foxx was still a North Carolina State Senator, she proudly compared herself to legendary unapologetic segregationalist Jesse Helms, and upon arriving in Congress, became one of only 11 members of Congress to vote against Disaster Relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina, which is even more frustrating when you consider how often her home state gets hit with hurricanes. She referred to the AIG bank bailout by calling it a “tar baby” and then defended her remarks by saying she was unaware the term was a racial slur (but didn’t apologize).
Foxx is also a specialist at revising history to fit her own party’s policy stances, like how she tried claiming the death of Matthew Shepherd was not a hate crime, but just a robbery (and anyone who says otherwise is perpetuating a hoax)… or the time that she claimed Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act without much help from Democrats (when Democratic president LBJ passed it by getting bipartisan support from Northern Democrats and a contingent of Republicans)… or the time she claimed Jared Loughner, the shooter in the Tucson, AZ mass shootings was a “communist” and the “liberal of liberals”. Oh, and in 2016, Foxx gave a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference, where she exhibited an unhealthy desire to ignore the separation of church and state, saying, “If people of faith are not involved in political life, then you’re leaving it to the Philistines. And I’m not willing to leave it to the Philistines.”
Virginia Foxx’s gerrymandered district allowed her to get re-elected to a seventh term in 2016 with 58% of the vote. Thus, she’s back in Congress, where she’s become infamous during the Trump administration not for any sort of achievement as a legislator, but because the old cross-eyed twit showed up to Trump’s executive order signings that f*** over the middle and lower class citizens of the country, practically giddy at the thought of their suffering.
When he has submitted legislation, it’s been utterly revolting towards anyone who isn’t loaded, like when she tried to pass a bill to allow corporations to collect genetic material from employees to look for medical conditions in their family history that would allow them to raise their insurance premiums based on the results. Seriously, what kind of messed up Gattaca plot point is that? And why is it that she’s still taken seriously when she’s trying to eliminate all federal education standards?
Virginia Foxx was re-elected in 2020 with 66% of the vote, and has resumed having one of the most conservative voting records in Congress:
At this point, we have to ask the people of North Carolina’s 5th District… WHY? Why do you vote for this woman? She has never shown a care for anyone other than the wealthiest people in the country. She doesn’t look out for your well being as much as her one lazy eye kind of falls on top of it every now and then. We understand that the Cook Partisan Voting Index gives North Carolina’s 5th District a +10 Republican lean, but we’re hoping maybe after redistricting, that number might come down a bit. She spent most of the past term in Congress being, of course, an obstructionist, including attacking the “Build Back Better” bill by complaining that none of the infrastructure plans in it will go toward building useless barriers on the U.S./Mexico border.
So would it be so much to hope that the folks in NC-5 vote for Kyle Parrish, and abandon a twisted old biddy who is so cruel that she’s proudly embracing a Trump endorsement? It’s past time, honestly, because she only makes sense in the context of a villain from a Dickens novel.
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