{"id":14544,"date":"2015-01-19T00:08:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T08:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14544"},"modified":"2015-01-19T00:08:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T08:08:55","slug":"go-go-contends-for-bachmanns-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/go-go-contends-for-bachmanns-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Go-Go Contends for Bachmann&#8217;s Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For many years the title of Craziest Federal Legislator was crystal clear.&#160; It was Michele \u201cBatshit\u201d Bachmann.&#160; It was not even close.&#160; Now that she is no longer in the House, there are several contenders, such as \u201cPig Nuts\u201d Ernst (R-IA), \u201cIdiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot\u201d Paul (R-KY), and \u201cUranus Inspector\u201d Cruz (R-TX).&#160; However, the leading contender may well be \u201cGo-Go Goosestep\u201d Gohmert (R-TX).<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0119Gohmert\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0119Gohmert\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0119Gohmert.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"386\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">I see America&#8217;s Dumbest Congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.districtsentinel.com\/gohmert-says-us-leaders-emulate-egypts-killer-dictator\/\" target=\"_blank\">has returned to the House in fine form<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) called on American leaders to emulate Egypt\u2019s military dictator, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi\u2013a man who orchestrated a coup d\u2019etat and has presided over the killing of more than a thousand dissidents. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Gohmert made the remarks on Wednesday in a speech from the House floor denouncing radical Islam, and the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cI hope one day that our top leaders in this country will have the courage of president el-Sisi in Egypt and they will reflect, as general el-Sisi has, the will of the people of their country,\u201d Gohmert stated.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">You don&#8217;t see congressmen praising dissident-killing military dictators quite as often as you used to, but for Louie that was just the side dish. The main course was supposing the current president was a Sekrit Muslim working with the Muslim Brotherhood to make America Muslimy, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/louie-gohmert-im-not-phobe-anything#sthash.abd4i3Wa.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">you know it must be true because<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Gohmert once again suggested that President Obama is secretly a Muslim, citing an incident in the 2008 primary season when then-candidate Obama mistakenly said he had visited 57 states, which Gohmert contends was an accidental reference to the 57 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">We&#8217;re through the looking glass, people. Oh, and also? Louie Gohmert says he is <span><em>not<\/em><\/span> a crackpot&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/01\/14\/1357776\/-America-s-Dumbest-Congressman-praises-Egyptian-dictator-still-thinks-Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Go-Go loves Egypt\u2019s Fascist dictator, because he engineered a Second Amendment solution, the path to political power that Go-Go favors here.&#160; There\u2019s a reason that he claims he isn\u2019t a crackpot.&#160; He is afraid that the SPCC (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Crackpots) will sue him for defamation of character.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years the title of Craziest Federal Legislator was crystal clear.&#160; It was Michele \u201cBatshit\u201d Bachmann.&#160; It was not even close.&#160; Now that she is no longer in the House, there are several contenders, such as \u201cPig Nuts\u201d Ernst (R-IA), \u201cIdiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot\u201d Paul (R-KY), and \u201cUranus Inspector\u201d Cruz (R-TX).&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/go-go-contends-for-bachmanns-title\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}