{"id":19968,"date":"2016-02-15T13:04:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19968"},"modified":"2016-02-15T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:04:12","slug":"this-weeks-unhinged-republican-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/this-weeks-unhinged-republican-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s Unhinged Republican Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how unhinged InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Louie Gohm<\/strong>ert has a completely bizarre explanation for Bernie Sanders\u2019 rise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GohmertHat\"Texas representative and history scholar Louie Gohmert is still really upset about the ’60s. It\u2019s quite possible that he, like David Brooks, will never really get over the decade.<\/p>\n

This week, on a radio show in Florida, Gohmert blamed the ’60s for the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders in his bid for president. While his host, a wingnut named Joyce Kaufman, claimed Sanders was \u201creading from the Communist manifesto\u201d in this week\u2019s debate, Gohmert preferred to lament the influence of hippies.<\/p>\n

Hippies, you see, have had undue influence on our education system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s also because we let some of the hippies from the \u201860s who created such chaos then start teaching the teachers,\u201d Gohmert said, \u201cand teaching them how great socialism is and just rewriting history and keeping them from realizing socialism has never worked, it will never work in this world, in this life, because if you\u2019re going to pay everybody the same thing then they\u2019re going to quit working.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s every indication that Gohmert, a rabid anti-immigration Tea Partier, really does believe the nonsense he spews. He finished by saying that the survival of the country \u201cis hanging in the balance\u201d in this year\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n

On that, we agree.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I think that Go-Go Goosestep has mixed some InsaniTEA in his Whacky Tobacky and smoked it.  This is only the fourth of five unhinged Republican moments listed for last week alone.  Click through for the other four.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how unhinged InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. Louie Gohmert has a completely bizarre explanation […]<\/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-19968","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\/19968","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=19968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}