This is an honest to goodness true story.  I have a friend (that’s not the breaking news part) who is currently in Washington DeeCee  to see the White House at Christmas.  She is a perfectly lovely lady from a distinguished local family.

She called me yesterday afternoon all ranting.  Now I know for a fact this was a bucket list trip for her so I was wondering what the heck had happened.

She proceeded to tell me that the White House tour was completely over the top fabulous and then they were escorted to sit in the gallery of the United States congress.  This was a big moment in her life.  She had always wanted to do this.

“Guess who was speaking?” she yelled at me on the cell phone.

“I dunno.  I didn’t have C-Span on,” I replied.  “Maybe our congressman, Pete Olson?”

“Oh no, think even dumber than him,” she said.  “The minute we sat down, I told my husband that I have to call Susan!”

“Louie Gohmert,” I guessed.

“Ding!  Ding!  Ding! You win!”

She then asked me how stoopid one person can be without forgetting to breath and leaving the planet better off for it.

It seems that “Señor Stoopid Gohmert” was putting on an embarrassing show.  She tried to tell me about how he claimed to be a Christian and how everybody else deserved to be hated, but I figured she was just making that up because he had ruined her once in a lifetime moment.

Come to find out, she was not making that crap up.

Louie was making the argument that non-Christians and atheists should encourage people to worship God.

“So if you were completely areligious, completely atheistic, but you wanted to have a free country, and you wanted to have it safe and protected, then it would sound like — from historical purposes — that it might be a good thing to encourage those who believe in God to keep doing so,” Gohmert said. “Because when a nation’s leaders honor that God, that nation is protected. It’s only when it turns away that it falls.”

You know, like Christian Germany in WWII.

No, y’all, Louie really said that and my friend Pam heard it with her own two ears.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.