Tag Archives: Louie Gohmert

The Hill reports: Freedom Caucus member Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Thursday speculated that the author behind President Trump’s tweet vowing to “fight” the conservative group was actually White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. Trump early Thursday tweeted: “The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast. We must fight …

House Rep. Louie Gohmert (R- Crazy Town) had some classically insane things to tell Glenn Beck today: “That night of the election, I’d already come to grips,” Gohmert said, “the U.S Commission on Civil Rights says that Christians are the biggest hate group threat in America, in essence. And you had Hillary, who wants to make it a crime to …

Raw Story reports: Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert has avoided holding a town hall with his constituents, citing in a recent statement, that he is choosing to avoid the matter because former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords “was shot at a public appearance” in 2011. Former Rep. Giffords responded to Gohmert on Thursday in a statement of her own, essentially telling lawmakers …

“Unfortunately, at this time there are groups from the more violent strains of the leftist ideology, some even being paid, who are preying on public town halls to wreak havoc and threaten public safety. Threats are nothing new to me and I have gotten my share as a felony judge. However, the House Sergeant at Arms advised us after former …

Politico reports: Former acting attorney general Sally Yates “showed herself to be a political hack,” Rep. Louie Gohmert said Tuesday morning, loyal not to President Donald Trump but to his predecessor. “A good book once said and still says you can’t serve two masters and apparently we had an acting attorney general that was still serving the Obama administration,” Gohmert …

From the far-right Western Journalism: Between Friday’s stab-in-the-back betrayal of one of the country’s closest allies and Wednesday’s insult-to-injury speech by Secretary of State John Kerry, President Barack Obama’s foreign policies are careening to the end of his term like a runaway train. But a conservative Texas congressman wants to put on the brakes. Rep. Louie Gohmert, the veteran Republican …

Loony Louis Gohmert actually took to the podium of the US House today to bitch that US Capitol fire safety rules don’t allow him to barbecue ribs on his office balcony for the quarterly party he throws for fellow reps. According to Gohmert, “all of the networks” want to do stories about his fantastic ribs, but thanks to typical government …

So much for Mexico paying for it. Politico reports: Congress should have no problem finding the money to pay for Donald Trump’s proposed border wall once the president-elect is sworn in, Rep. Louie Gohmert said Friday morning. The Texas Republican said Congress has already appropriated money for similar projects in the past, only to have them thwarted by uncooperative officials …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, who has previously registered his concern about the prospect of gay space colonies, connected homosexuality to Noah’s Flood on a radio program yesterday. Gohmert, who was guest hosting the “Point of View” radio show, interviewed conservative activist and “Reaganbook” founder Janet Porter about her anti-LGBT film “Light Wins,” which …

On Friday the American Family Association cosponsored an event called the Pensmore National Symposium on Religious Liberty. In the audience was Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and headlining the event was Dr. Stabby, who had some typically insane things to say. The Springfield News-Leader reports: Outside the college were the letters “RLM” and a cross covered with American flags. The …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas opened his remarks at the Values Voter Summit today by facetiously apologizing for having said that Hillary Clinton’s “brain is in a blender” because it is unchristian to mock those with “special needs.” “You don’t make fun of people who are impaired, have special needs,” Gohmert said, …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Today on “Breitbart News Daily,” Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said that Democratic Party under President Obama “is not that much different from the Democratic Party fifty years ago that was out to manipulate African-Americans. They’re still manipulating them,” Gohmert said. The Republican congressman also criticized Sen. John McCain, who is facing a …

As those of us watching the sit-in live stream last night witnessed, at one point crackpot Rep. Louie Gohmert rushed the podium to scream about radical Islam and he nearly came to blows with Rep. Corrine Brown. This morning Gohmert ran whining to Fox News.  The Hill reports: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) early Thursday blasted the Democrats’ gun control sit-in, …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Earlier today, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, put a new spin on his “gay island” story, arguing on the House floor that the push for LGBT rights is wrong because we would never choose to send gay couples or gay animals into space to start a new colony like in the Matt Damon movie …

Crackpot Rep. Louis Gohmert appeared on Fox Business last night, where he openly worried that Donald Trump imperils GOP control of the House. Gohmert told host Stuart Varney that he’ll “come on board” with Trump only if he apologizes for lying about Ted Cruz and others. Varney: “He’s not gonna apologize. You’re giving it to Hillary.” Gohmert: “No, Donald Trump …

Gohmert Pyle is SO 2015. Miranda Blue reports at Right Wing Watch: In an interview with Florida talk radio host Joyce Kaufman on Friday, Gohmert falsely claimed that church-state separation decisions in the 1950s and 1960s mandated that “you can’t talk about God in schools and public places.” But, he said, the Supreme Court did something even worse with Obergefell. …

Watch below. “When our Navy ships have problems, we don’t call Iran. We call the rest of the Navy, we can call the Air Force, the Army, the Marines, the Coast Guard. We don’t call Iran! For the Iranians to even issue a statement at all saying, ‘We are going to release them soon,’ tells you that they control whether …

“We could take four heterosexual couples, married, and put them on an island where they have everything they need to sustain life. Then take four all-male couples and put them on an island with all they need to sustain life, take four couples of women, married, and put them on an island, and let’s come back in 100 to 200 …

Via The Hill: Conservative firebrand Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told The Hill that he might run for president in 2016. Gohmert indicated he might launch an exploratory committee for president when originally asked if he would support Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) White House bid. “Ted is a good friend and would be an outstanding President; however, I haven’t ruled out …