Louie! London is Calling!
Y’all remember Louie Gohmert’s expensive trip to London, right? Where he paid $5,000 for a hotel room? And he spoke to the Cambridge Union?
Well, come to find out, House Rules will not allow Louie to pay for that trip by using campaign funds.
In a filing with the Office of Congressional Ethics, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) claims that Gohmert may have violated House rules by charging nearly $6,300 to his campaign account for the late November trip. Members are barred from using campaign funds to cover personal expenses.
Bless her heart, his communications director Kimberly Willingham, says the taxpayers did not pay for his trip because “it’s political.”
Political?
Louie is running for office in England? Praise the Lord!
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
It would be properly hilarious to watch Louie The Louse run for office in Old Blighty. Filleted, sliced and diced in his first debate., no doubt.
1I can imagine the looks on the collective faces of the British uppity ups while listening to Louie.
2Well, they’ve already elected Boris Johnson mayor of London, so they like a good laugh. The previous mayor was far enough left to be known as “Red Ken.”
3Gotta love the CREW! Now Louie has some ‘splainin’ to do about all those Greek massages and cab rides to god-knows-where.
4Couldn’t happen to a better doofus.
Head>Desk
5Oughta be interesting where Louie finds the bucks to pay pack his campaign fund. In 2013 he ranked as the third-poorest Member of Congress, with a negative net worth of $175,000.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/
6Correction: Eighth-poorest. He’s only a second-rate loser, not there with the best of them.
7Umptydump, Louie may be a second-rate loser financially, but as an intellectual loser, he shines!
8Further proof that Loopy Louie is ‘Murika’s dumbest Congresscritter.
9All the rest of ’em do junkets on the lobbyist’s dimes, not their own (and he’s supposed to hoard those excess campaign dollars for when he retires and can stealthily pocket them. Surely the RNC skools them on that, Louie musta been in the corner for that lesson.
Remember all those fancy junkets by ol’ slick hisself, Tom DeLay, golfing and grifting at the toniest places in Scotland, etc?
And, yup, he will never learn and always blame Obama and all those little brown children streaming over the southern border carrying drugs and ebola.
10We taxpayers did buy him a one-way ticket, right? In that case I am happy to chip in my share of the cost.
11While it is true that Huh?mericans and Britons “are two countries separated by a common language.” NOBODY understands the Texas-mumble-drivel that spews from Louie’s tiny brain through his ginormous mouth. Sad day for both countries and for Texas.
12LynnN, save your money for a better cause. Loopy Louie is so familiar at riding the short bus that with a promise that he can sit in the big boy driver seat, he will take that sub trans Atlantic cruise all by his lonesome.
13Micr, relax, good friend. As embarrassing as Loopy Louie is to the good state of Texas, there is good evidence that Iowa is ready to capture his spotlight.
Y’all were too ready to king Louie as head of the st00pid. When it involves the Tea Baggers, always leave a space or two at the “top.” The current fight seems to be between Joni and Daffy Cruz, Jr. for Louie’s space on the downward trajectory.
14I should very much like to see how a Tea-nut like Louie-Lou-aye would fare running against in a typically social-democratic district against a Labour or a Liberal-Democrat opponent.
It might not be possible, but I can have evil dreams, can’t I?
(Heh, heh, heh)
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