Tweety: I think Rep. Foxx is a replicant like in Blade Runner.

[Graybeard]

Rep. Virginia Foxx claimed on the House floor that the Civil Rights bills of the 1960s were passed by Republicans. Just now on Hardball, Tweety said that nobody could get history so wrong unless their memories were implanted in them like the Replicants in the movie Blade Runner.

So the (R) after her name is for the Replicant Party? I like it.

[wryter2000]

1. LOL

He really said that? :rofl:

[supernova]

2. LOL!

She's making shit up.

[pf99]

8. No

She was my congress woman and she is not making this sh#t up. She is full of sh#t and it come out naturally.

[paulsby]

3. kind of correct

it is true that a greater %age of repubs in both the house and senate voted for the civil rights act of 1964

[glowing]

4. She's thinking 1860's and yes, she is that old.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. This myth has got to die.

Because I really am sick of hearing it. It's not just from here, too. I've heard this shit from people I associate with.

Democrats opposed the civil rights bill, Republicans supported it.

NOT

152 Democrats VOTED for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 96 opposed.

If you break it down by region, you get:

ZERO Southern Republicans (out of 10) voted for it. 7 of 87 Democrats voted for it (and many of those Democrats left the party for the Republicans)!

145 Northern Democrats voted for it. Nine against. 138 Northern Republicans voted for it. 24 against.

Of course, there were more SOUTHERN Democrats back then and it isn't a surprise a good number of them voted no on it. Those who voted no ultimately turned to the modern day Republican Party.

So shut the fuck up, Foxx.

[Spazito]

6. LOL!

I love it! The "pelicans" of the Replicant Party, how appropriate, lol.

[DainBramaged]

7. Well, I JUST turned him on (against my vow to boycott his ass)

and he's talking to Haley Barbour and AGREED THAT TORT REFORM would HELP what a fucking asshole and what a mistake. he is just stoopid, and giving that dumb fuck Barbour, governor of the poorest and dumbest and unhealthiest sate in the country a platform is unconscionable.

[Bitwit1234]

9. Next thing you know

she's gonna say Social Security and Medicare were republican bills. They have already said that Herbert Hoover had already made the plans for all the organizations and bills that FDR implemented and took credit for. He was going to start them but lost the election so FDR stole them.

[HughMoran]

10. Teh stupid!11!

It hertz!1!!

[unc70]

11. Hard to believe Foxx, Lowenstein, Wellstone, & I all attended the same school

While many conservatives have attended UNC Chapel Hill, few have seemed as clueless as Foxx. Can't really blame if on her having been born in NY. So were many others, for example Allard Lowenstein who attended some years earlier.

While I admit many Carolina Alum are conservative, few seem quite so clueless as Foxx.

[dgibby]

12. And she was a professor.

No wonder Americans are so stupid.

[unc70]

14. Had to go to the alumni site trying to understand her background

Foxx is apparently two classes ahead of me, though she is over five years older. Just checked the yearbooks for those years, but couldn't find her. Not sure the story.

Her MACT in Sociology in 1972 from UNC is even more confusing to me. How could one get a masters degree in Sociology and be as clueless as Foxx? What in the world was she studying? Apparently not many others received that degree.

WTF.

[unc70]

15. For full disclosure: Tweety claims to have attended UNC, too

A bit of grad school during that same period overlapping with Foxx and me, although I personally have not encountered anyone who remembers him in Chapel Hill, not that this proves anything. Probably not that many would remember me, either. (More likely they would remember my ex-wife.)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Liberals and moderates from both parties voted for the Civil Rights legislation

something Foxx conveniently left out. There are no liberals left in the Republican Party and very few who could even be called moderate. In fact, the extreme conservative Democrats subsequently became Republicans.