On this day in both 2014, and in 2015, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted its first two 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 pockets, and stuff her pockets full of as much food as she can carry in them as if her six figure Congressional 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”.
We advise that during our update to her profile, everyone continue to hide your biscuits:
- November 19th, 2015: Foxx votes for the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act, reacting to the terror attacks in Paris by jihadists from France and Belgium by trying to create greater restrictions to keep out Syrian refugees, of whom exactly zero were involved in those attacks.
- February 2nd, 2016: Virginia Foxx votes for HR 3762, the 61st attempt by Congressional Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (which is still working better than was predicted).
- May 19th, 2016: Rep. Foxx votes against House Amendment 1079, which would have prohibited the use of federal funds for discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. So if you were wondering, yes, she’s pro-discrimination, apparently.
- June 10th, 2016: Foxx gives a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference, where she exhibit’s 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.”
North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District has a +11 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, which gives Foxx a pretty favorable advantage if she can get out of the GOP Primary in any year unscathed, which she did, defeating Pattie Curran with 68% of the vote. She moves on to the general election with only a rematch against her 2014 opponent, Josh Brannon, who she defeated with 61% in the mid-terms. Most analysis groups have pegged North Carolina’s 5th as a “safe Republican” seat, but with Donald Trump at the top of the ticket, and North Carolina Democrats VERY motivated to get to the polls against both him, as well as unpopular Gov. Pat McCrory, Brannon’s actually got more of a chance than one might expect, adopting the progressive platform of Bernie Sanders, and he might just be able to deny Foxx a seventh term in office, and score a win for all real non-Philistines everywhere.