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by Hunter
Look, this isn't even funny at this point. We need an intervention. Somebody help this man:
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)who has spent the weeks following the bombing arguing that Obamas political correctness prevented the FBI from stopping the attacksappeared on the Glenn Beck radio show to argue that Holders history of defending terrorists allowed the judge to Mirandize Tsarnaev:GOHMERT: Think about it, when your attorney general spent more of his legal career helping terrorists than defending the country, then you know we all have certain biases and lean certain ways.
Gohmert then went on to reiterate his belief that the Obama administration is guided by the Muslim Brotherhood. (The administration) know whos in there advising them, Gohmert said, either they lie under oath or they do know the extent of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into our government.
No, I mean it. Is there a number we should be calling? Can someone check for a medical alert bracelet? Because this poor man is seeing invisible Muslims everywhere, and in every federal department:
While addressing the FBIs work in Boston, Gohmert said that it was amazing that the FBI was able to do any investigative work at all because, according to Gohmert, they are being advised by Muslim Brotherhood members.
He said that the Obama administration is promoting radical Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and in the US, maintaining that Muslim Brotherhood advisers have made it virtually impossible to properly and adequately investigate and defend this country.
He's gone past the conspiracy tubthumping of Bachmann and Kinghe may have even lapped a few Alex Jones theories at this point. According to him, the entire government is just riddled with secret invisible Muslims. They're everywhere. They're hiding under his office chair, they're in his cereal, they're out in the parking lot right now, letting just a tiny bit of air out of his tires each dayoh, it's hard to notice at first, but you can tell. You can tell.
I realize America doesn't have high standards for electing congresspeople. Or, for that manner, any standards at all. I realize many voters in certain southern states have, in fact, a longstanding tradition of seeing just how dumb a man they might be able to elect to office, just to see what would happen. And I realize that the Republican Party has relied on the dangers posed by purely imaginary people of all colors and persuasions for nearly all of their major policy decisions, these last two decades. But this? This is a man past his breaking point. This is a man who's about three weeks from ripping out his own fillings, claiming invisible Muslims lived inside them and were reciting the collected works of Walt Whitman every night while he was trying to sleep. Help him.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/30/1205933/-America-s-Dumbest-Congressman-melting-down-before-our-eyes
The diary above is two-days-old, but this is today's Republican Party.
Republican Party uses image of President Obama consoling Newtown mother to mock his agenda
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022786123
MADem
(135,425 posts)Maybe having a tone-deaf twirp representing them will encourage the pendulum to swing the other way....
He sounds like a good camp bunkmate for that nutjob Allen West who got the boot the last time round....
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)The same as he and the TP RW are. Dumb as a post, we need more sharia laws introduced by this American Taliban bunch.
caledesi
(11,903 posts)Cha
(296,844 posts)Steve King comes to mind.
thanks ProSense
Scuba
(53,475 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Wednesdays
(17,312 posts)Otherwise, civil rights is just a bunch of communist hoo-ha.
RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)In a 2012 meeting of the House Natural Resources Committee, Gohmert stated his strong support of a trans-Alaskan pipeline, as a means for caribou to have more sex.
According to Gohmert, "When [the caribou] want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline. So [his] real concern now [is]
if oil stops running through the pipeline
do we need a study to see how adversely the caribou would be affected if that warm oil ever quit flowing? Gohmert's comments were not favorably received by the rest of the committee; reportedly, Alaskan representative Don Young was forced to stifle his laughter in response.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Gohmert
madokie
(51,076 posts)what a stoopid ass person Louie is. My question is how do these people get elected in the first place? Do they run under assumed names and persona's or what?
Buns_of_Fire
(17,154 posts)is because the people who vote for them are even dumber. And that scares me more than a few nutjobs like Cruz and Gohmert running around Capitol Hill.
madokie
(51,076 posts)sheshe2
(83,654 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)That cracked me up, too!
randome
(34,845 posts)he why 44% of rethuglikkkans want armed revolution? They have one great leader among many on the right. Good luck revolutionaries.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Does anyone check his numbers out?
spanone
(135,791 posts)that' what's scary....
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Louie Gohmert is not losing his mind. He is playing to a particular group. I am pretty sure Gohmert knows the Muslim Brotherhood is not in the Obama Administration, or in the FBI. He is making those statements in order to make himself popular in the groups that hate President Obama.
In addition, making wild claims about President Obama, his administration, and government agencies have in the past gained those that made the claims greater media attention. The same has happened to Rep. Gohmert. How many people, outside of his district, knew there was a Rep. Gohmert before he started making crazy accusations about the Obama Administration and government agencies. Now just about everyone, if not everyone, who pays some attention to the news knows this guy's name. Gohmert is not making more of these statements because he losing his mind, but because he likes the attention he gets from making these statements.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)He is the American Muslim brotherhood, another far right wing nut.
flamingdem
(39,308 posts)Nothing like a frothing nutjob to fill those hours.
W T F
(1,145 posts)His aunt and his mother were same person for Christ's sake!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Can a President order a member of congress to see the surgeon general for a psych eval?
Given the importance of his position, Gohmert should be drug tested as well!
5150 Louie!
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)My brother in law and his kids believe everything they say. That's who votes for them. They range in income from wealthy to just getting by, but they all think the same, and they HATE Obama. They're not so crazy about Perry and I can't figure out why.
nikto
(3,284 posts)every time they do this:
http://gawker.com/obamas-justice-department-cracking-down-on-california-486527454
http://secure.acslaw.org/acsblog/war-on-drugs-rages-on-as-us-attorney-hounds-medical-marijuana-dispensaries
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/feds_threaten_medical_pot_dispensaries_with_40_year_sentences/
http://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/war-on-drugs-rages-on-as-u-s-attorney-hounds-medical-marijuana-dispensaries/
http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2013/05/02/seven-s-f-marijuana-dispensaries-targeted-by-d-e-a/
So far, Obama has been an abject COWARD on this issue.
This is not the "change" I voted for.
madamesilverspurs
(15,798 posts)of Gohmert humping Ted Cruz's leg. You know it's out there somewhere. . .
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)They can't get away with publicly attacking him for being black so they go with the evil Muslim angle. Gohmert is probably insane enough to believe that claptrap but really, this has been a mantra from the R's from day one with President Obama.
olddots
(10,237 posts)n.t.
Boudica the Lyoness
(2,899 posts)America's dumbest congressman is Cathy McMorris Rodgers. She is as dumb as a rock.