Virginia Foxx to Gulf Coast: Eat Shit & Die

Madame Virginia Foxx was one of 11 Republican members of Congress who today voted against the emergency appropriations bill for victims of Hurricane Katrina (vote # 460, "On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass Further Emergency Supplemental Appropriations, Hurricane Katrina, 2005").

This is your congresswoman. She almost never votes against the wishes of her president and her congressional leadership. It's interesting that she should decide to defy El Presidente and Tom DeLay on a bill that will give money in this instance, to these particular people. Interesting ... and revealing.

Madame Foxx loves to brag about having been poor at one time in her life. She's now the richest member of Congress from North Carolina. Her vote today says, approximately, volumes about her humanity, if not about her supreme Republicanism. These personal qualities of hers might have something to do with this story currently moving on the AP wire:

WASHINGTON -- (AP) North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia A. Foxx (R-N.C.) was denied entry onto a Delta Airlines flight out of Washington today when she set off metal detectors at the airport. Federal officials later determined that her chest cavity may have set off the alarms.

Question of the hour: would she have voted against emergency appropriations if, say, Katrina had caused widespread devastation in these mountains like Ivan last fall?