Where do I start?
My choice of topics concerning the Foxx/Sharpe contest is getting somewhat crowded. There is the "The Fifth Fleet just sailed to Iran and N. Korea is the one testing nukes" meme. Or how about Foxx supports a poll tax? Very 60's Alabama of her. Then there is the support of Dennis Hastert and his cover-up of the Foley Pedophile Scandal.
Yeah... let's do that one today.
It shocks me that Virginia Foxx would support a cover-up of a pedophile in Congress. One must wonder what her possible motivations could be? She has offered blind support of Bush before, maybe it is just an extension of that?
Or could it be, the Republicans needed every vote they could get to push through their budget busting spending sprees? With $9 trillion of national debt, I thought they were the party of fiscal responsibility?
But maybe, just maybe, Foxx is heartless. She has a history of voting for CEOs over families - voted against Katrina, voted enthusiastically for Bush's bloated, big oil loving budgets, supported war with Iraq and ignored North Korea.
My belief is Foxx's reason for support of the Hastert cover-up is because of all of these. Whenever she has the opportunity to do the right thing she zings in the opposite direction to hit the target. For example, she has been recently quoted as saying this about a particular group, "an ineffective, corrupt organization with complete disregard for common sense." She wasn't talking about the GOP or the Bush Administration, she was talking about the UN.
Again, right on target, except we in the 5th District are the targets.
And I am damn tired of being the scapegoat for Republican failings. I am tired of being the target.
Vote Sharpe For Congress. It is the only way to help get these issues fixed.