Okay, Louie, That Does it
Y’all, Louie Gohmert has fallen so low on the food chain that we’re going to have to start watering him once a week.
The House just passed a bill to authorize the National Science Foundation to use its entrepreneurial programs to recruit women. Only four congressvarmints voted against it. Louie, of course, was one of them, but he did have a reason. Not a good reason, mind you, but a reason.
“We want to take time from our $19 trillion in debt to demand that the National Science Foundation discriminate based on gender. There may be some young boy [who] needs encouragement from a tough family situation, but this program is designed to discriminate against that young poverty-stricken boy and to encourage the girl. Forget the boy, encourage the girl,” Gohmert said.
Now what the national debt has to do with recruiting women into science is anybody’s guess and that’s because Louie is a man filled to brim with loose ends.
I guess Louie has a special place in his heart for “young poverty-stricken boys,” because, you know, Louie created them. Why, come to think of it, without Louie and his colleagues we probably wouldn’t even have half as many as we do now.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
This fool reminds me of the comments section of any article about rape or other attacks on, or discrimination against, women. Some jackwagon is guaranteed to say, “But what about all the MEN who get raped?” Yeah, maybe 4 out of 100 cases, and they deserve consideration, but they’re not the biggest problem.
Louie, discrimination based on gender is what we’re trying to fix here. Do try to keep up.
1Louie Loo Eye leaves me speechless! What is in the water in his district that causes the kind of brain damage that would allow him to be elected and re-elected? They need counseling. They really do.
2The intelligence quotient of his voting constituents has been reviewed and found wanting.
3“We want to take time from our $19 trillion in debt to…”
Vote against the Affordable Care Act 50 times?
Talk about terror babies.
Accuse John McCain as well as Latinos crossing the border of being terrorists.
That’s what Louis thinks is a valuable use of time.
4“The House just passed a bill to authorize the National Science Foundation to use its entrepreneurial programs to recruit women.” Louie, I don’t think “authorize” means what you think it does.
So, Loopy Louie launches into orbit about childhood poverty. Too bad he won’t bring that issue with him to the not happening budget discussions he is lamenting. His concern trolling for poor children is breaking my heart. Really. It is. It breaks my heart that he, Granny Snuffer Lyin’ Ryan and the other Tea Baggers would slash all social safety nets to protects tax breaks for the .01%.
5‘Cause in our society nobody does anything to encourage boys to succeed. Especially in science.
Just like no one is ever fair to white male Repubs. Don’t they deserve encouragement too? I mean, do you know how much effort it takes for them to get up each morning and deny women health care?
6I understand exactly where Gohmert is coming from. The world is brimming with boys and man-boys who are intimidated by successful and brainy women, and who will do anything to keep their wimmen in the kitchen.
Gohmert is that poverty-stricken boy, but it’s a poverty of the heart and mind.
7Loopy Louie must be trying to replace MN’s own former Congress space-taker-upper Michelle Bachmann as Most Ridiculous Member of Congress Ever! Ya gotta admit, he’s got a great campaign going. (Maybe Caribou Barbie is his manager.)
8Tell me something. Are the women in his district allowed to vote?
9A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but in Gohmert’s case no worries. Nothing there to waste.
10Micr asks “what’s in the water”. I don’t think its the water, its the lead dust in the air from 150 years of Second Amendment rights, gun toting gunslingers, a war with Mexico, and lord knows what other toxins Texas has been spewing into the air with their non-existent air quality regulations.
11Next, the NSF will cast aspersions on his asparagus.
12Louie needs to go home and speak nicely to his asparagus patch,
13@coprolite
Of course you are right, what we breathe can alter our consciousness in bad ways. Maybe the upholstery in Louie Loo Eye’s 1977 Gremlin is still out-gassing? Could explain his mood swings, paranoia and Asperger-like presentations.
14Can’t remember where I saw a headline about “stupidest member of Congress,” but I clicked and sure enough, there was Louie. He’s nationally known for jaw-dropping idiocy. And the majority of voters in his district are in that same category.
15What the hell did he say??? I don’t get it. But then I am only a stupid woman with a Bachelor of Science degree.
16I think he and GWB both have the same learning disabilities, and Sarah P. for that matter. And I read that Palin is more coherent than Trump. The best news is that Trump is way behind Sanders and Clinton here and there, maybe in SLC, where bunches of Mormon GOPs didn’t vote for Trump.
17Yeah, Louie, my heart bleeds for that poor poverty-stricken boy who needs encouragement to become a scientist. But apparently it has escaped your notice that girls are just as likely to be in tough family situations, and poverty-stricken as boys, besides being subject to constant sexual harassment by those males who think wimminfolk are there for their entertainment. I am sick of white guys whining about discrimination against them. Years and decades and centuries of affirmative action allowing people like you, Louie, who are clearly mentally inferior to the average boll weevil, to think your privilege proves your ability…get over it.
18Why don’t you water him twice a week til it bubbles up to his vocal cords and brings us a bit of peace before he’s replaced with the next Angry Old White Male Texan Republic Destroyer. Can’t find an acronym, suggestions welcomed, please
19Louie has three daughters, although it may be an open question whether they were the product of his sperm. At any rate, they should disown him.
20I take exception to your graphic of Louie’s head blowing. That presupposes there is something in there to erupt.
21@UmptyDump
They should each demand separate DNA tests and reserve the right to a second opinion.
22If you are one of four people not to vote for (or against) something then you should probably pause before speaking. Sometimes you might have angels in your corner (like the Congresswoman that voted against WWI and WWII), but more often than not you are just a loon. Usually those big custard last stand type votes only work on the more historic bills. I don’t mean to say that using entrepreneurial funds to recruit women to science isn’t important. It just seems like a no brainer. Then again I may have just answered my own question.
23@Scott – Her name was Jeannette Rankin, and she was elected in 1916 from Montana, which as a state had suffrage years before the 19th Amendment was ratified. Ironically, she was in office twice, both times in terms just when World Wars I and II began. Quite a fascinating life story.
24@Umptydump, Ironically, I remembered all of that except for her name. I haven’t taught U.S. History in some years, so my recall has gotten a tad blurry. Then again, maybe it’s just the hill country wine. I always tell my students that I will remember which class they were in, where they sat, and even some of the things they said, but I’ll struggle to remember their name.
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