Han Solo: "Where did you dig up that old fossil?"If you listen to Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) it may be time to skip the country. I hear Guam is lovely this time of year. Why? The impending doom to be delivered by a nefarious villain -- a villain whose disastrous plans would indiscriminately destroy the American way of life as we know it. Fuck Osama. Fuck Al-Qaeda. This is the real deal. So, who is this nefarious villain? That's right, you got it -- healthcare reform.

Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx stood up in the chambers and had the following to say:

"Everywhere I go in my district, people tell me they are frightened. ... 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."

Here's the video:

When the press asked Republican Minority Leader Jon Boehner about Foxx's statements, replied by saying, "Members are entitled to their own opinions." When pressed about whether her discourse helps the debate he responded with, "This is the part where you guys get the old Boehner shrug."

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