A day after Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said health care reform poses a greater threat than “any terrorist,” a member of the House Republican leadership clarified that the legislation is like an “internal” terrorist attack.
Roll Call (sub. req.) reports that Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the vice-chair of the House Republican Conference, is leading a new push this week to use GOP women to fight the House health care bill.
Asked today whether she endorses Foxx’s comment, she admitted that the health care bill and international terrorist attacks have some differences.
“I would say it’s the difference between an internal versus an external attack. Yes,” McMorris Rodgers said. The Democratic bill “is internal. This is rocking our foundation.”
McMorris Rodgers has also shown glimmers of birtherism, saying in July, “Oh, I’d like to see the documents.”
When House Minority Leader John Boehner was asked yesterday about Foxx’s comments, he offered only “the old Boehner shrug.”
