C-SPAN Develops a Sense of Humor
Louie Gohmert takes to the House floor at least once a week to deliver a Cicero-like oration on how he loves Uhmerca and you don’t, dammit.
These speeches even bore the C-SPAN cameraman and …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ML3pLDSVQ
C-SPAN cameras rarely do this kind of stuff so we need to realize how totally insane Louie truly is.
However, there advantages to being insane. Other insane people want you to run for Senate.
For several days now, Glenn Beck has been leading a campaign to convince Rep. Louie Gohmert to launch a primary challenge against Republican Senator John Cornyn in Texas. Today, Gohmert called into Beck’s radio program where Beck told Gohmert that he had been praying on the question and the answer that he heard from God is that Gohmert should run.
Ghomert demurred, saying that he’d need to raise millions of dollars to launch such a challenge, which prompted Beck to tell him that he should not worry about that since God will provide all the funding he would need because “we live in a time of miracles.”
“You are the guy,” Beck assured him. “As long as we’re on God’s side, who could stand against us?”
Who, indeed.
I’m all pissed off at God. He never gives me political oracles. Maybe I need a stronger drug regimen.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
For your information the C-Span cameramen and women are robots, but they get bored too.
1Now hold on there, you don’t really want a political oracle from “God.” 1) The track record of those encouraged to run by direct communication with God proves 1 of 2 things: 1) It ain’t God actually doing the communication and endorsement or 2) God has a cuttingly wicked sense of humor and assumes that most people will get the joke.
2O.k. First of all. Louie bores me to tears, also.
I’d probably doze off if I had to listen for too long.
Secondly,
I’m getting a little curious….. about all these people that God talks to. God told Rick Perry last election to run for President. To say it was a “disaster” would be an understatement.
So, now…. God is telling Glenn Beck that Louie needs to run against John Cornyn? God must have a marvelous sense of humor.
I’m gonna keep saying this… and someday folks will understand.
(1) God doesn’t do baseball.
(2) God doesn’t do football either, (in Texas or anywhere else).
(3) God doesn’t do politics. (In Texas or anywhere else).
(4) God does give most folks the sense to think for themselves. That they choose not to… is not His problem.
Stop blaming everything on God.
Thank you.
3Laughing, Well, at least Gohmert had sense enough to know that he doesn’t have enough money to run against Cornyn.
4@Miemaw
How did you get into my brain?
Damn, you’re good.
5Oughta be plenty peyote floating around Texas. Don’t invite him/her/it into your heart,I’m kinda guessing nutjobs have fooled he/she/it with that joke enough to invoke the wrath of him/her/it. Make sure you’re packing just in case.
6And Miemaw, I am truly sick of the way the RWNJ’s use God like a rented mule! There is 50% chance that God doesn’t appreciate it, either!
7The real question is why Republican Jesus (the one that is white, hates the poor and loves the money-changers, and carries an assault rifle) told Bachmann, Cain AND Rick Perry to run and run against each other?
8JJ I thought YOU were the political oracle!
9Well … I think the Pres-Protem was bored to tears and closed his eyes to keep them form dripping and becoming de-hydrated. After all he would have wanted to look bright-eyed for the camera during his photo-op.
10Well, let’s see….if Gohmert were to primary Cornyn and Texas were to find a genuINE rip snorter of a Democratic Candidate and we raised some serious cash…….Dayum that would be so fine!
11Louie is a Texas Mafi-no show-who has taken the vow of Gohmerta-a cultural attitude and code of honor that places heavy importance in a deep rooted code of silence,non-cooperation with authorities and non-interference with illegal acts of others. I suspect he’s a “made” nutjob.
12So Glenn Beck, the weeping wacko, thinks he has a direct line to God, and God told him Gohmert, the asparagus moron, needs to run for the Senate. And the only obstacle, in Gohmert’s mind, is money. This s**t is absolutely incredible.
13Glenn Beck, urging Louie Gohmert to run for higher office? No wonder The Onion is going out of business—present-day reality defies parody. I was concerned; now, I’m just amused. Many thanks, Cheryl, for the dead-on description of Republican Jesus.
14If this political thing doesn’t work out for Louie, maybe he can ply his trade in pharmaceuticals:
“Instead of Ambien, now try new Gohmertien. Five minutes will send you into a night of deep, restful sleep. Absolutely non-habit forming.”
15I hope that Glen Beck is successful in convincing Louie to run. That would be a fun primary and Cornyn will have to run so far to the right that he may fall off of the edge of the flat world that he believes in.
16Speaking of crazy…
17Wanna know the really funny part? C-SPAN doesn’t control the cameras in the U.S. House of Representatives. It merely takes the program feed. So who does control the camera shots? It’s under the supervision of the Clerk of the House. And who is the present Clerk of the House? A Republican!
The first order of business for a new Congress is to elect a speaker, who always will be the leader of the majority party. The second order of business is to elect the clerk, who will be from … you guessed it … the majority party!
So, you want to guess where this Gohmert slap-down came from? Maybe John Boehner’s office?!
This video cut is a dead giveaway about how members of his own party really feel about Screwy Louie, the undisputed owner of the duck-billed platitude. Let’s not forget a committee hearing in Marcvh when Gohmert derided contributors to The Huffington Post and his House Republican colleague Jim Sensenbrenner responded:
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(Per the Huffington Post)
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), perhaps best known for warning against a terrorist plot to have babies on U.S. soil, took aim at the “simpletons” of The Huffington Post on Tuesday during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on email privacy.
“Just so that the simpletons that sometimes write for Huffington Post understand, I don’t want the government having all that information,” said Gohmert.
“With a point of personal privilege, my son writes for The Huffington Post,” replied Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) to laughs. Frank Sensenbrenner, a fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has blogged for the site on Italian politics and the Vatican.
Gohmert tried to recover. “Well then, maybe he is not one of the simpletons I was referring to,” he said.
“He does have a Ph.D.,” continued Sensenbrenner.
18Does the phd go with the bs?
19@Rick Interesting that you should bring up Ambien. Do a search on Ambien side effects… and include psychosis and amnesia. Gohmertien might have enhanced side effects compared to Ambien. Could explain a lot of what is going on in House Republicans.
20Does anyone know why God required Glenn to be an intermediary? God must be such a prankster.
21You know, it’s quite possible that God DID tell Glen Beck to encourage Mr. Gohmert to run for the Senate. After all, God encouraged Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, and a host of other clown carpoolers to run for President… which helped President Obama win reelection.
God may simply be encouraging these fools to destroy their own political careers.
22You mean Louie is actually a congresscritter? I thought he just played on on tv. You know, Texas humor.
23Apparently, God does love a good wrestling match, so he likes to pitch like opponents together for amusement.
24Heck if God is backing him, why stop at the Senate? Louie for Prez 2016! But the joke is on him. God is a woman–Hillary in a landslide! lol
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