THE Best Michele Backmann Line
James Carville, of course.
“God closes one door for Michelle Bachmann and opens three to Louie Gohmert.”
And then today, to make it so, Louie says —
It is clear that the reason for the collapse was due to a collision with the super structure of the bridge – not a lack of structural integrity of the bridge. The bridge would indeed be standing today had the truck’s load NOT rammed the super structure of the bridge.In fact, 11 of the 12 sections of the bridge are still standing.
Hummm … and as Charles Pierce points out, “92 percent of a bridge really isn’t a bridge.”
No, I believe it would be a diving board.
Thanks to Robert and Maryfor the heads up.
I would be doing the happy feet dance but I’m not convinced this is the last we will see of the Bachman, TeaParty Overdrive.
1As to Louie, Louie, here’s hoping he gets 11 of out of every 12 votes he needs to be reelected.
2JJ, IMHO: More like a trap door.
3The second quote is from a Repub in Washington state named Ed Orcutt. But still, it is amazing the things Repub’s will say to not spend money on stuff. Yes, parts of the bridge are still standing. Just not the part that gets you from one side to the other. Isn’t that the whole point of a bridge?
4Proof that she’s been crazy for a long time now.
5http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2008/10/positioned_in_f.php
Their god must be terribly busy opening and closing doors!
6I think I heard a few slam shut.
I was going to mention the originator of the quote, but Everyday Freethought pointed it out. Here’s the link if you’d care to read it. No doubt, Louie thought it was brilliant and used it himself.
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/05/28/rep-orcutt-shrugs-off-bridge-collapse-11-of-the-12-sections-of-the-bridge-are-still-standing
7Louie and his ilk must not have any memory cells whatever. I can’t look at a picture of that bridge without getting vivid recollections of the bridge in Minnesota that collapsed and killed so many people. I especially remember the yellow school bus full of kids and some chaperones. God, I never want to see a sight like that again in my lifetime or be reminded of it but good ole Louie G. has just got be the class idiot!
8Hee hee scotty the mental picture that painted is the Keystone Cops only in this case it’s the Keystone Cranks and Michele is done up in a bobby uni but with a mustache like Lucille Ball in the famous Lucy episode-Michele and her wild eyes and the doors endlessly slamming as the feet gallop around…dear me, its almost Monty-Python-esque! Thanks for the giggle!
9@Aggieland liz…………you’re welcome……:)
10She-ite Earl! Out of perverse curiosity I Wiki’d Gomer. He has a law from Baylor University, and was class president-not class clown! He has been a judge also too.
11Not surprisingly, he attends a Baptist church where he is a deacon and Sunday school teacher. Sadly, (for them) he has three daughters.
Just goes to show, you can’t fix stupid.
Uh, Louie, most of the Bay Bridge was intact after the big earthquake in 1989 too, but…
“It was an earthquake that made this replacement span, which runs for 2.2 miles between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, necessary. The Loma Prieta quake of 1989, the first to occur along the San Andreas fault zone since the 1906 disaster, caused part of the existing steel-truss span to collapse, killing a motorist. The bridge was closed for a month. That quake, with a magnitude of 6.9, caused strong shaking that lasted about 15 seconds and movement far greater than the 1930s-vintage bridge had been designed to handle.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/science/to-survive-a-quake-new-bay-bridge-span-will-offer-least-resistance.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
12It’s like we’re talking different languages: scientific fact and Gohmertese. Never the twain shall meet.
13Come on y’all. No problem. You just have to go real fast over the bit of the bridge that isn’t there. 😉
14I’m with Lynne. Gohmert regularly says stupid stuff, but he didn’t say this. A Washington state rep did. Beware the start of an urban legend.
15So among the multitude of things Louie knows nothing about we can now add the bridge in my own state. I see it only took him one day to become the new Bachmann, spewing misinformation and idiocy everywhere he goes. The comedians’ prayers have been answered — they’ll just switch from Michelle to Louie.
And by the way, that’s not the first time that poor old bridge was rammed by a truck — not by a long shot.
16Wonder if that truck was carrying asparagus.
17maryelle — I believe it may have been, but I haven’t heard anything about the condition of the aspersions. This could be worse than was first reported.
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