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In the post-Jesse Helms era, it's hard to find a North Carolina politician more polarizing than Virginia Foxx.

It is hard to know whether the author of the letter "Pray for Obama" is oblivious to its implications or very cynical in his statement: "Barack Obama is our president and I do pray for him to succeed..." For he cites Psalm 109:8, which reads, "May his days be few, and let another take his office." This verse does not spell "success" for this ...

Underbelly: Short Memories: Republicans and Civil Rights : Short Memories: Republicans and Civil Rights There's a curious case of memory loss that seems to be afflicting both left and right this morning over the history of civil rights legislation.

FOXX'S NOTION OF 'REVISIONIST HISTORY'.... On the House floor today, Rep. Virginia Foxx, a right-wing Republican from North Carolina, boasted of her party's alleged progressive history on civil rights.

ThinkProgress.org calls Rep. Virginia Foxx a oethe gift that keeps on giving,a and today she gave us all a classic.

Votes in Congress Service Here's how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Nov.

A comment by oft-controversial North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx had Democrats choking down anger again today.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 Maybe it's the Palin tour that's tipping the scales -- the documented, fact-checked lies in her book and her whining rebuttals mount by the day -- but even so, the scope and nature of female Republican lies is so much more outrageous than that of their male Republican counterparts.

I would have said Foxx made an ass of herself, but we won't malign that noble beast here.

Chris Matthews, on Thursday's Hardball, took GOP Congresswoman Virginia Foxx to task forA claiming that Republicans "passed civil rights bills in the sixties" as he accused her of having a bad memory, going as far as to compare her to one of the androids from the science fiction classic Blade Runner : Up next wait a til you hear the latest from ...

Foxx: Republicans 'Passed Civil Rights Bills Back In The 60s Without Very Much Help' From Democrats During a debate on the House floor today over designating 21 miles of the Molalla River as " wild and scenic ," Rep.

I hardly know where to start. I refer to the Veterans Day parade coverage -- or lack of.

When NC Rep. Virginia Foxx talks about health care, comedian and talk show host Wanda Sykes hears "Enough is enough!" Foxx got called out on "The Wanda Sykes Show" Saturday night for her comments against health care reform, with Sykes likening Foxx's remarks to made-up movie lines.

Here's a roundup of the late-night comics. The Tonight Show Conan O'Brien : Sarah Palin claims that before John McCain chose her as his running mate, his campaign spent $50,000 on a background check.

This past weekend, I got the rare opportunity to see the Washington, D.C., in a rare way that few people get to experience.

Youth unemployment has been rapidly snowballing since New Zealand entered a recession in the first quarter of last year, and shows every sign of being as long-lasting as the early 1990s recession, which resulted in deep and long-lasting damage to far too many of our young people.

I spent the day on the Hill interviewing Representatives about Wall Street and how they were able to jump the line to get the H1N1 flu vaccine before pregnant women and children.

Health care reform quiz: The so-called "public option" will drive private insurance companies out of business and eventually force every American to enroll in a single-payer, government-run health care system, or force private insurers to compete for patients, thereby driving down prices across the board, and everyone will live happily and ...

Jaws dropped when the government announced recently that the national debt would increase by $14,000,000,000,000 over the next decade.

Meredith Shiner and I write today on the GOP's persistent trouble recruiting, retaining and attracting women, particularly in the House.