Rep. Virginia Foxx: Health care reform is greater threat than terrorists

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@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

That little fiasco had not occurred when AD posted. Anyway, I’m not sure that really counts as a terrorist attack - the shooter was a Muslim, but he was an Army psychiatrist who was upset about being deployed to Iraq.

You’ll never convince the loyal republican base of that. It doesn’t matter to them whether or not the person was actually trying to instill terror. If he were a white Christian he’d be considered someone who simply snapped under the pressure of a seemingly imminent deployment, but he’s Muslim, and the rules are different for him solely because of his ethnicity and religion. How’s that for racism exemplified?

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@ElvisL1ves

And gun control, and buttsex.

Gun control is too stupid to contemplate. Buttsex ain’t so bad so long as the participants ain’t married. It’s that Gay Marriage that is the real threat to American Values and I think that Gay Marriage is a Terrorist / Republican plot designed to put fear into the hearts of right thinking Christian Americans.

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@rbroome

shes right. For the Republicans. Obama proved terrorists don’t have the draw they once did. But health care reform is big and new. So it can be made to sound scary. This makes HC reform more important to the republicans than terrorism. Can’t think of a two similar issues that do the same thing for Democrats, but I am sure there are a couple. Same old Same old politics.

I came in to post pretty much this. If health care reform passes and works, that will be a HUGE threat to the GOP. A great boon to the American people, but that’s a much, much lower priority to these people.

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@Maus_Magill

Of course Cliff Clavin was right when he said that Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz and Lucille LeSueur were three people who had never been in his Kitchen.

I know who these people are, but your meaning is too subtle for me.

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@lissener

I know who these people are, but your meaning is too subtle for me.

There was an episode of Cheers where Cliff (who is alway talking everybody’s ears off with his knowledge of trivia) gets to be a contestant on Jeopardy. He is tearing up the boards until Final Jeopardy, when the answer/question is about what Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz and Lucille LeSueur have in common. Cliff bets all his winnings on the question/answer, “Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?” Alex Trebek admits that is perfectly true but he can’t give Cliff credit for it.