{"id":9017,"date":"2012-10-04T09:32:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2012-10-04T09:32:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T16:32:36","slug":"go-go-gohmert-still-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/04\/go-go-gohmert-still-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"Go-Go Gohmert Still Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"

On days where a single story dominates the news, we can usually depend on the Bachmann wing of the Republican Party to do something or say something sufficiently outrageous to leave us shaking our heads in disgust.  Louie Gohmert stepped forward to fill the bill.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"4GohmertHat\"Fresh after his speech insisting that President Obama is reestablishing the Ottoman Empire<\/a>, Texas congressman Louie Gohmert told [hate group delinked] anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney that the Obama administration is \u201cgetting advice on how to deal with the Muslim Brotherhood from people who are in the Muslim Brotherhood.\u201d He claimed that the Obama administration is sending money to \u201cradical jihadists\u201d in order to \u201cbuy [them] off,\u201d not understanding that they can only use \u201craw power\u201d against those who worship \u201ca radical, mean-spirited, hateful Allah that these people that twist Islam believe in.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gohmert, who signed letters with Michele Bachmann calling for an anti-Muslim witch hunt<\/a> within the administration that were ultimately rejected but lauded by Gaffney<\/a> and Newt Gingrich<\/a>, charged that Muslim Brotherhood agents may be the ones shaping Obama\u2019s foreign policy. Gohmert claimed that Muslim Brotherhood operatives are involved in Janet Napolitano\u2019s \u201csuper-secret, trusted, Homeland Security advisory council\u201d<\/strong> but said she won\u2019t give him the names. He also criticized Napolitano for allowing an Egyptian lawmaker to meet with members of the U.S. government in Washington, even after he was vetted<\/a> by Homeland Security, the State Department and the Secret Service, because he is a member of a political party tied to a listed terrorist organization that has since renounced violence\u2026 [emphasis added]<\/p>\n

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Is it any wonder that Muslims, who are not familiar with the ins and outs of Republican InsaniTEA, think that this nation hates them, when they hear such statements from a sitting member of Congress?<\/font><\/p>\n

Now, you may say that Gohmert is just one wing-nut, and should not be taken seriously.  However, if a member of the Democratic caucus were to make such hateful allegations, you can be sure he or she would be facing intense condemnation from the rest of the party in very short order.  Nevertheless, Gohmert still enjoys the full support of the Republican Party.  That provides Gohmert\u2019s statements with a Republican stamp of approval.  Just like Todd Akin represents the Republican War on Women, Louie Gohmert represents Republican religious intolerance, ignoring the First Amendment.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On days where a single story dominates the news, we can usually depend on the Bachmann wing of the Republican Party to do something or say something sufficiently outrageous to leave us shaking our heads in disgust.  Louie Gohmert stepped forward to fill the bill. Fresh after his speech insisting that President Obama is reestablishing […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","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=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}