On the House floor today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) warned that health care reform poses a greater threat to American freedoms than “any terrorist right now in any country.”
“Everywhere I go in my district, people tell me they are frightened,” Foxx began, reports Think Progress. “They fear for the future of our country. What they’re talking about is, they fear for our freedoms.”
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I share that fear, and I believe they should be fearful. And I believe the greatest fear that we all should have to our freedom comes from this room, this very room. And what may happen later this week, in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill. 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.
Foxx is no stranger to hyperbole. Earlier this year, for example, she said a Republican health care bill “will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government,” as opposed to the Democrats’ bill.
