Representative Virginia Foxx (R Nutjob, 5th District NC) has refused to meet with her constituents during the August recess. When I talked with her directly and tried to schedule a meeting with her, she told me she didn't "owe" me a meeting and that she didn't want to meet with me because she didn't "want to be pinned down."
Instead, Ms. Foxx held a phone-in meeting where she took 11 questions and didn't answer any of them, instead offering listeners her view that the Constitution didn't allow legislators to implement health care reform.
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On August 19th, Ms. Foxx wrote a guest column for the Winston-Salem Journal, "Let's Give Priority to the Patients," in which she insists, "all the facts don't make their way onto the table and clarifications must be made."
Ms. Foxx fails to mention that she herself is the one preventing the facts from making their way onto the table.
In her column, Foxx asserts that she is a "vocal supporter" of health-care reform and that "many people" have in fact "distorted" her views on health care reform:
I can't begin to count the number of people who falsely claimed that I said the Democrats' bill "would put seniors to death." Many in the media joined the chorus and parroted this falsehood.
Let me be clear. I've never said that the Democrats' bill will lead to seniors being euthanized. The point I was making -- and, yes, I should have been more clear -- was that since the Republican plan doesn't create a government-run health-care plan, it steers clear of the aforementioned thicket.
Oh, really? Here's what Ms. Foxx said (although I guess she'll say the YouTube recording of her comments should not be believed in that it is some socialist plot.)
Ms. Foxx then offers as further distortions of her position that she never said the bill required taxpayer financing of abortion or euthanasia but that "Congress's refusal to forbid taxpayer financing for certain procedures is simply the camel's nose in the tent." The fact on the table, in other words is, "okay, none of the things I told you were in the bill are actually there, but they could be one day."
Virginia Foxx continues to dig herself in deeper, and the Watauga County Democratic Party is handing her the shovel by making sure her constituents know Ms. Foxx is afraid to meet with them, lies to them, and is a hypocrite for taking her own government run insurance while decrying it as unacceptable for the rest of us.
The Watauga County Democratic Party has run a series of letterscalling out Ms. Foxx, the most recent of which challenges Ms. Foxx to sign a pledge putting her money where her mouth is by forgoing her government run insurance:
Virginia Foxx Comes Clean
Dear Editor:
We thank Representative Foxx for coming clean and admitting that what she said in the past about the proposed health care reform plans was not true. We are glad Ms. Foxx is now willing to confess that the health care plans currently being considered do not pay for abortions or euthanasia and are not plots to put seniors to death.
We also appreciate that Ms. Foxx, after four years of being in the majority in Congress and doing nothing whatsoever about health insurance reform, finally wants to get on board as a "vocal supporter." Problem is, Ms. Foxx’s plan is to give more taxpayer money to the insurance companies, while stiffing the rest of us who are trying to find a way to pay the increasing costs of premiums and copays.
Health insurance corporate profits were up by over 1,000 percent in the past five years. Meanwhile, working families saw their premiums rise by over 300% over the same period of time. But Ms. Foxx thinks the insurance companies deserve better. She wants to eliminate all state regulations on insurance companies, and she wants to shield the insurance companies from any honest competition. That’s what she means when she says she doesn’t support any government run health care. And that’s why the insurance companies are so keen on Representative Foxx.
Ms. Foxx’s opposition to any non-profit competition to the health insurance companies also means that Ms. Foxx does not support Medicare for Seniors, Veterans insurance, or even her own tax-payer funded government insurance. That’s right -- we the taxpayers are paying for Ms. Foxx’s government health insurance, and it’s a real bargain for her (for us, not so much).
So we respectfully ask Ms. Foxx to stand up for her principles against government run insurance and sign the following pledge:
I, Virginia Foxx, Congressional Representative for District 5 of the State of North Carolina, acknowledge that I am the beneficiary of a health care plan and policy that is paid for by the American taxpayers and run by the Federal government.
For this reason, I hereby pledge I will forgo my government insurance until all Americans have full access to the same or better health insurance opportunities and the same or lower out-of-pocket costs for their personal and family health care needs.
We are sure in light of Ms. Foxx’s desire for accountability to the people of the Fifth district, she will agree to sign this pledge and return it to the newspapers for all to see. How else can a representative who opposes government run insurance show the people she really means what she says?
Diane Tilson
Chair of the Watauga County Democratic Party
Are you also living in the district of a Coward, Liar and Hypocrite congressional representative? If so, why not issue them the same challenge?