Virginia Foxx: “Madam Speaker, if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound? After…”

“Madam Speaker, if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound? After their thorough drubbing on Election Day, it makes sense for the Democrats to revisit this metaphysical question. Despite the abundance of evidence and warnings from pollsters, from authorities across the political spectrum and from the American people, the liberals maintain their losses were due to miscommunication and voter ignorance, all resulting from the sour economy and nothing more. They refuse to acknowledge the reality that voters rejected the liberals' government takeover of health care and the process that accompanied its passage. They refuse to recognize that their endless bailouts of megabanks, automobile manufacturers and unions could have possibly led to the historical election results. Stubbornly clinging to their failed prescription of bigger government and ever-increasing taxes, the liberals continue to defend the stimulus and their extravagant spending as cornerstones of their futile efforts at healing the economy. So perhaps the question should now become: If American voters roundly reject the failed liberal agenda, will any Democrats notice?”