Holder plays asparagus card against Louie Gohmert

[Enrique]

some vegetable fun in D.C. today

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/04/08/300612766/holder-plays-asparagus-card-against-gop-antagonist

Revenge and asparagus are apparently dishes best served cold — at least when served by Attorney General Eric Holder.

After a testy exchange Tuesday with Rep. Louis Gohmert, a Texas Republican who had clearly gotten on his last nerve, Holder delivered a dose of ridicule.

"Good luck with your asparagus," Holder said dismissively, in one of the most memorable moments of snark to occur in, oh, at least the last few hours between an Obama administration official and a Republican House member.

To really appreciate the moment, you had to know that Holder — who's among the administration officials most detested by conservatives — was mocking a Gohmert malapropism from last year that was committed during another bilious hearing involving the attorney general.

After Holder vigorously defended himself and his agency at that earlier hearing from Gohmert's accusation that the Justice Department failed to prevent the Boston Marathon bombing, a flustered Gohmert said: "The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus."

Your guess is as good as ours at what the congressman was going for there.

[hrmjustin]

1. .

[maddezmom]

2. Haha

[rudolph the red]

3. That's Hillarious!

[kysrsoze]

5. Hilarious! Here's the original "asparagus" video:

[rudolph the red]

6. Aaaah, thanks for that!

[CJCRANE]

4. Wasn't "casting asparagus" a freeperism

that was often mocked on DU?

Along with

ITS HUGH!!!!!!!!111!!
SERIES?!!11!!
WE'RE SCREWN!1!!!1

Or did it originate with Gohmert?

[jtuck004]

8. Watch the video, near the end, about 4:20...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/louie-gohmert-eric-holder_n_3280953.html

Gardeners gone wild...

[Bjorn Against]

9. It was a Freeperism

I remember DU mocking a Freeper for accusing someone of "casting asparagus" a few years before Gohmert said it. When I heard Gohmert say it years later I immediately wondered if he got the talking point from Free Republic because it is the only place I know of that complains about casting asparagus.

[catchnrelease]

10. Not Gohmert

I originally saw it used on a social forum going back 7 or 8 years, where it was written as a joke malapropism. Could well have been picked up by freepers I suppose, maybe they thought it was the correct way to refer to casting aspersions.

[appal_jack]

13. Classic Stuff. Link here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2778742

At one point, someone had a collection of animated gifs of asparagus spears being catapulted, launched, and otherwise cast about, but I did not save them, alas.

-app

[mfcorey1]

7. Finally! Someone called that idiot out for what he is! Kudos to Eric Holder

for not taking their s*$# today. Now they want to impeach the Attorney General. They represent the lowest form of humans.

[dhill926]

11. now that, was snarkilicious….

[cab67]

12. Gohmert is an embarrassment to the nation.

I've had colleagues overseas ask how, exactly, someone who can't be executed because of his low IQ can be in Congress.