Foxx chides U.N. for letting Chavez speak
Foxx chides U.N. for letting Chavez speak
She compares rhetoric used by Democrats to that of leader of Iran
Saturday, September 23, 2006
By Patrick Wilson
JOURNAL REPORTER
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx last night compared Democrats in Washington with the leaders of Iran and Venezuela, and she condemned the United Nations for giving such a high-profile platform for the presidents of those countries to speak.
Foxx, a Republican who represents North Carolina's 5th Congressional district, was the featured speaker at the annual fall dinner of the Forsyth County Republican Party.
She said she was in disbelief that the U.N. allowed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to speak Wednesday. Chavez called President Bush a racist, imperialist "devil" devoted to military aggression.
"I was really shocked that these tyrants were given a platform to speak at the United Nations," Foxx said, calling the U.N. "an ineffective, corrupt organization with complete disregard for common sense."
Foxx said that such comments as Chavez's are similar to those made by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, and Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, who have called Bush "a loser."
Democrats, she said, use rhetoric "just like Chavez and the president of Iran. The similarities to me are frightening." Foxx is in her first term as a member of Congress. She faces Democrat Roger Sharpe in the Nov. 7 general election.
With Bush's handling of the war in Iraq under increasing scrutiny, Democrats are hoping to take control of Congress in the fall. Sharpe is not expected to be much of a threat to Foxx, according to the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan, online newsletter that analyzes elections.
Foxx defended the policies of Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress last night, saying that the GOP had cut taxes, passed a comprehensive energy policy, increased funding for Pell grants and made national security the top priority.
"The economy is doing great, but if you read the local newspapers or the national newspapers, you're not going to know that because that's not what you read about," she said.
The Democrats' agenda, she said, "sounds like a recycled list of Republican accomplishments." Andrea Kepple, a local Republican activist and past president of the Forsyth County Republican Women, introduced Foxx and said she is glad to have Foxx's conservative voice in Congress.
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