Virginia Foxx and the Big Lie

We didn't need the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll to tell us that the Republican regime is in trouble -- though that poll IS appreciated. We knew they were in trouble just watching Madame Virginia Foxx. Surely you've noticed that she's begun to campaign against her own party, disavowing in the process her own voting history.

Last week in the Jefferson Post she said she was shocked -- SHOCKED! -- at the fraud, waste, and abuse of taxpayer's money in the Katrina relief effort. "This bill was rushed through Congress so quickly," Madame Foxx wrote, "that hardly anyone noticed it was the Republican power structure doing the rushing." (Okay, okay. She didn't actually say the second half of that sentence, for good reason.)

Where does she get off? Don't answer that.

But give her this: the woman has balls. She votes with Big Spender Tom DeLay 96% of the time and then campaigns against the big spending.

She's in the Winston-Salem Journal this a.m. saying she would like to cut arts in education, community technology centers, education programs for jailed youth, and financing for the Women's Educational Equity Act, among many others, to make up the Katrina aid. In this woman's universe, everyone's going to suffer, not just hurricane victims.

No mention, however, of cutting federal price supports for sugar growers. Perhaps because Madame Foxx is receiving very big bucks from the American Crystal Sugar Company Political Action Committee. Thousands.

And don't forget those other thousands from Tom DeLay's ARMPAC. She's taking his money, doing his bidding, and now pretending that she's an opponent of all he represents.

ADDENDUM: During El Presidente's five years in office, real discretionary spending has increased by 35.2%, a rate considerably higher than LBJ's. Go take a look at the figures. So during all that boot-licking of the president practiced by Madame Foxx, her tongue has been kept securely in her cheek?