I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country.

Because terrorism kills far fewer people annually than the 45,000 that "that bill" would. And we can't have that. We have a quota to maintain, after all.

Virginia Foxx is just the latest Republican to let her inner lunatic run free. The GOP is doing all it can to become the Party of Crazy. Sure, they'll purify themselves as with the recent ouster of Scazzafava in NY, but in the process they will become the permanent home of the lunatic fringe minority, never in control of Congress and pounding on the doors of power like mindless zombies.

What a freakshow they have become.

My good friend Art lives in her district in North Carolina, and pretty much says everyone thinks she is a senile old fool. What keeps her in office, though, is being a bigoted senile old fool.

He also says when she speaks, somewhere, a moose is slapping on aqua velva.

Keep in mind, though, that these are just fringe extremists. I mean, it's not like Republicans are voting nutballs like this into national office or anything.

It's kind of a non-statement. We have so little to fear from terrorists that any comparison is almost certainly going to favor the other side.

If terrorism is less of a threat than health care reform, does that mean we can have the Constitution back now?

At this moment, I fear Obamacare/Pelosicare more than I fear terrorists.

1. Health care "reform" is much more likely to happen than a terrorist attack.

2. A terrorist attack has very low odds of injuring me or my family while health care "reform" will undoubtedly increase our costs/taxes dramatically, and also is very likely going to reduce the amount of care we'll be able to buy at any price.

So, Ms. Foxx speaks the truth, but I can't say she "speaks for me" because even though she's correct, she sounds like a crackpot.

Feel free to depend on the generosity of the private insurance companies who will raise your rates and deny you coverage when you need it most. Maybe you'll join all the other hard-working, decent Americans who have gotten bankrupt, or even died, due to medical bills their insurers would not cure.

You're as deluded as Foxx.

I fear healthcare reform because when it passes and even the redneck dumbfucks in my district realize that the Republicans haven't done a damned thing for the working man but screw him since Eisenhower, they will boot my wrinkly old ass out of office so fast it will make my dentures pop out."

I'm not saying that the bill will be perfect. Far from it; it's got too many givebacks to the hospital/industrial complex. I'm not saying the Democrats are perfect. Far from it; they're still too in thrall to Big Money and too spineless to ram a decent bill up the ol' GOP tan track. But at least they will make progress, and truly seismic change is always incremental.

The GOP is TERRIFIED of their dupes finally discovering that not only do their representatives have no clothes but they've been mooning Joe the Plumber and his ilk for the last 20 years. Get ready to be exposed, elephants.

When I saw "Foxx" in the headline, I just thought someone double-typed the X in the name of a certain "fair and balanced" news channel and the editors didn't catch it. I also assumed the Republican Congresswoman in question was Michelle Bachmann. Then I saw her and I must admit she's not the image I have of a wingnut. I assumed someone her age, while quite possibly conservative in the sense of traditional, would also be a bit more circumspect and not jump off the rhetorical deep end.

Poor Ms Fox. She has no faith in our form of government. She should move to a third-world country where she would feel at home. She believes only citizens in Canada, Western Europe, and Japan deserve decent healthcare. We Americans get the shaft. 40 million Americans will continue to receive only back-door emergency room care at the highest possible price to the rest of us because this system is making a lot of republicans very rich. Whenever republicans talk about saving me from taxes, I know I'm about to get ripped-off by some crooked corporation that paid them off.

Rep Foxx is a moron, without a doubt, but actually she backed into something correct even though she clearly is incapable of nuanced thought- our fiscal, environmental, education and healthcare policies along w/ our aging infrastructure represent a greater existential threat to our way of life than al Qaeda or any other external threat ever could. If AQ exploded a dirty bomb in say, Baltimore, it would be an act of war, a national tragedy and a travesty but would it fundamentally alter America? Not really. Despite the horrific toll of 9/11 in precious human lives, we recovered as a great nation does. What happens when our nation implodes from debt, overwhelmed infrastructure and unaffordable health care? Just because it takes longer doesn't make it less devastating than an WMD attack on our home soil. I'm an active duty Army officer w/ tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan but don't claim to be an authority on either though I do believe that we are chasing ghosts abroad while avoiding tough decisions and real sacrifice at home. Foxx could start a meaningful debate on national priorities but I think she's just saying this to scare the crap out of Joe Six Pack instead. A real shame...

Do you remember when Sen. Kerry voiced hope that one day terrorism would only become a nuisance?

Do you remember how he was tarred and feathered for saying anything that might "undermine" the war on terror.

Do you remember how republicans argued that it was unamerican to even voice something so treasonous?

So where is the GOP now when this lady speaks?

In districts that don't file tax returns. Between the hippies, the artists, the meth labs, and the evangelicals, they're all crackpots.