February 9, 2013 6:54 AM

When you can conflate for-profit colleges and the Holocaust with no sense of irony, you must be Virginia Foxx

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

(apologies to Keith Olbermann)

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC)

In criticizing the private college presidents, Representative Virginia Foxx, the North Carolina Republican who leads the subcommittee on higher education, adapted the famous statement from the German theologian Martin Niemöller on Germans who ignored Nazi persecution. (“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.”)…. “‘They came for the for-profits, and I didn’t speak up…’” Foxx said. “Nobody really spoke up like they should have.”

Sometimes it almost feels like piling on. I’ve bestowed this “honor” upon Rep. Foxx more times than I care to remember…primarily because she richly deserves it. Imagine if you will a female Louie Gohmert, and you’d have something closely approximating Virginia Foxx, who’s to rationality, reason, and intellect what Ted Bundy was to healthy relationships.

It takes a special kind of crass cluelessness to invoke Niemöller, and few can the bring the crazy cluelessness like Foxx, who thought it perfectly appropriate to equate scrutinizing for-profit colleges with the Holocaust. Of course, the fact that Foxx is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the for-profit college industry has NOTHING to do with her righteous outrage.

“In her first year on the [Higher Education and Workforce Training] subcommittee, Foxx picked up at least $48,668 from PACs or individuals affiliated with for-profit colleges.”

It would be easy to ridicule Foxx as just another crazy Republican back-bench wackjob, but she’s part of the House GOP’s leadership, and is also seen as a possible Senate candidate in North Carolina next year. That Foxx would carry water for an industry renowned for saddling students with expensive, sometimes-barely usable educations and mountains of debt should tell you about who she’s working for…and it’s not the people of North Carolina or America.

Remember, Republicans are people too…very often mean, selfish, and greedy people. Virginia Foxx has at least two of those three nailed.

WE DESERVE BETTER.

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