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*He also managed to make a pile of already strange theocratic babbling (during a conference call with [[Rick Scarborough]], of course) even more incoherent when he asserted that America is now worse off than any time since slavery because, well, <s>he said so</s> we're moving away from "God's teaching in the bible."<ref>[http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gohmert-america-worse-off-now-slavery Rep. Gohmert Says America is Worse off Now than During Slavery,] Right Wing Watch</ref>
 
*He also managed to make a pile of already strange theocratic babbling (during a conference call with [[Rick Scarborough]], of course) even more incoherent when he asserted that America is now worse off than any time since slavery because, well, <s>he said so</s> we're moving away from "God's teaching in the bible."<ref>[http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gohmert-america-worse-off-now-slavery Rep. Gohmert Says America is Worse off Now than During Slavery,] Right Wing Watch</ref>
 
*He was the only representative to vote against removing the word "lunatic" to describe the mentally ill from the U.S. code.<ref> ''The Atlantic'': [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/louie-gohmert-really-wants-the-us-to-keep-referring-to-people-as-lunatics/265963/ Louie Gohmert Really Wants the US to Keep Referring to People as Lunatics]</ref>
 
*He was the only representative to vote against removing the word "lunatic" to describe the mentally ill from the U.S. code.<ref> ''The Atlantic'': [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/louie-gohmert-really-wants-the-us-to-keep-referring-to-people-as-lunatics/265963/ Louie Gohmert Really Wants the US to Keep Referring to People as Lunatics]</ref>
*Opposing gun control on the basis of, well, ''gay marriage''! And ''bestiality!''<ref>[  http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louie-gohmert-opposes-gun-control-because-gay-marriage-leads-bestiality Louie Gohmert Opposes Gun Control Because Gay Marriage Leads to Bestiality, Right Wing Watch</ref>
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*Opposing gun control on the basis of, well, ''gay marriage''! And ''bestiality!''<ref>[  http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louie-gohmert-opposes-gun-control-because-gay-marriage-leads-bestiality Louie Gohmert Opposes Gun Control Because Gay Marriage Leads to Bestiality,] Right Wing Watch</ref>
 
*Calling on Christians to take a more active role in politics because "Satan worshippers" and "cross-dressers" might take jobs at their churches (and their synagogues [?] as well, apparently) and...and...''Obamacare!!!''<ref>Ibid.</ref>
 
*Calling on Christians to take a more active role in politics because "Satan worshippers" and "cross-dressers" might take jobs at their churches (and their synagogues [?] as well, apparently) and...and...''Obamacare!!!''<ref>Ibid.</ref>
  

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Louie Gohmert wants to know if you're carrying a terrorist in your womb. This is his official Congressional portrait;[1] presumably his actual skin is Photoshopped.
Terror babies...
—All you need to know about Louie Gohmert

Louie Gohmert is the Teabagger Republican Representative from Texas' first district. Naturally, his crazy level is on par with Michele Bachmann's. Worse, actually, he dials up the batshit to 12, making Bachmann, Mike Lee, et. al. look sane in comparison. He served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) in the Army and as a district court judge before being elected Representative in 2004. In 2008, he proposed a two-month federal tax holiday to stimulate the economy, which would have been pretty sweet messed up as it will be timed for the dividend seasons, significantly lowers the tax on rich by more than 1/6.[2]

Contents

Terror babies

Gohmert's most infamous conspiracy theory is, of course, terror babies.[3] Supposedly, terrorist organizations are impregnating women, sending them to the US, waiting for the babies to be born as "anchor babies," flying them back to wherever they came from, waiting twenty to thirty years so the babies can grow up and be trained as terrorists, and then sending them back to the US where they can gain easy entry to blow up the country. Gohmert first introduced the idea in a speech on the House floor in 2010. In response, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interviewed an FBI official on his show to debunk the terror babies claim (Gohmert asserted that the FBI had reported terror baby incidents). Gohmert then appeared on Cooper's show and refused to provide any evidence of terror babies while gibbering like a madman.[4] The xenophobic think tank Center for Immigration Studies then attempted to back up Gohmert with a report on terror babies, which again provided no evidence except for a bunch of statistics on illegal immigration and conspiratorial insinuations.[5]

As if "terror babies" didn't earn him first class passage on the crazy train . . .

Oh, and terror babies is just one of Gohmert's greatest hits. Here are the rest:

  • Gohmert is, of course, a birther.[6]
  • On a plan sending money to China for protection of endangered species of cats and dogs: "There's no assurance if we did that...we wouldn't end up with Moo Goo Dog Pan or Moo Goo Cat Pan."[7]
  • Confusing Israeli settlements with Palestinian ones, and then claiming the Palestinians were taking over Israel.[8]
  • Getting a college art director fired for petty personal reasons.[9]
  • Repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell would threaten the existence of the US and that homosexuality is a perversion similar to bestiality, necrophilia, and pedophilia.[10][11]
  • Pulling a reductio ad Hitlerum by comparing Barack Obama to Hitler.[12]
  • Obamacare gives President Obama a secret reserve army and the intervention in Libya is being used to deplete troop reserves so Obama can replace them with his own sooper seekrit army. (No kidding, for real.)[13]
  • Entering his own "American Jobs Act of 2011" into the House record the day before President Obama submitted his to the house, thus denying the president his selected name for the bill. Gohmert's bill proposed eliminating all taxes on corporations.[14]
  • Suggesting that the American Jobs Act (the real one, not his) would "encourage divorce" and was "intended as a nod to gay couple."
  • Warning the Supreme Court that if they don't find the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, "any sitting president will have access to the Justices' medical records." He also asserted that Americans would die as a result because it would "make us like England and Canada."[15] When the Supreme Court did rule it constitutional, Gohmert decided that one good way to deal with the ruling was to impeach Justice Elena Kagan[16].
  • Suggesting that oil pipelines in Alaska were good for the environment because "the caribou like the heat" and their mating behaviors "increase tenfold" in territory with a pipeline in it.
  • On 20 July 2012, upon waking up to the news of a shooting massacre during the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises at a suburban Denver movie theatre,[17] Gohmert went on a Heritage Foundation radio program and blamed the shootings on "the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs." He further claimed that these "attacks"[18] had led God to remove His protection from America: "We don't want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present."[19] When Ernest Istook -- the show's host and himself a former Republican congressman who represented the Oklahoma City area from 1993-2007 -- jumped in to try to dial back Gohmert's statements, Gohmert claimed that the massacre was a terrorist act that would not have happened if Americans still feared God.
  • Gohmert also recently joined in with Michele Bachmann, Jerry Boykin and Frank Gaffney on a smear campaign against State Department official Huma Abedin concerning her alleged connections with the Muslim Brotherhood. After John McCain publically criticized Bachmann, Gohmert responded with his usual degree of diplomacy and tact and called McCain and other critics "numbnuts".[20]
  • The aforementioned Muslim Brotherhood meme refuses to die since Gohmert and Gaffney insist on keeping it on a zombified form of life support; in December 2012, they insinuated that Barack Obama was being advised by the Muslim Brothers since the Arab Spring apparently went so poorly for "friends" of the US like Moammar al-Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak.[21]
  • He also managed to make a pile of already strange theocratic babbling (during a conference call with Rick Scarborough, of course) even more incoherent when he asserted that America is now worse off than any time since slavery because, well, he said so we're moving away from "God's teaching in the bible."[22]
  • He was the only representative to vote against removing the word "lunatic" to describe the mentally ill from the U.S. code.[23]
  • Opposing gun control on the basis of, well, gay marriage! And bestiality![24]
  • Calling on Christians to take a more active role in politics because "Satan worshippers" and "cross-dressers" might take jobs at their churches (and their synagogues [?] as well, apparently) and...and...Obamacare!!![25]

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Footnotes

  1. You have to wonder if the photographer was intentionally trying to recreate this image, or if Gohmert struck that pose on his own.
  2. Pay No Tax for Two Months?, Human Events
  3. Not to be confused with Muppet Babies.
  4. Anderson Cooper Grills Shouting GOPer Louie Gohmert On 'Terror Babies' Conspiracy, Talking Points Memo
  5. Terror Babies Go Legit, American Prospect
  6. Gohmert signs birther bill, Huffington Post
  7. C-Span transcript
  8. Rep. Gohmert Abhors Illegal Palestinian Settlements, Political Correction
  9. How Rep. Louie 'Terror Babies' Gohmert Got a College Art Director Fired, Talking Points Memo
  10. Louie Gohmert: Gays in Military Threaten Existence of US, Opposing Views
  11. Gohmert Debating Hate Crimes, Talking Points Memo
  12. Rep. Gohmert Touts Column Comparing Obama To Hitler Over Handling Of BP, Political Correction
  13. Rep. Gohmert: Libya Goal Is To "Deplete The Military" So Obama Can Call Up Private Army, Political Correction
  14. Louie Gohmert Pranks Obama With His Own "American Jobs Act", Slate Magazine
  15. thinkprogress.org
  16. thinkprogress.org
  17. Parker, Ryan, and Kurtis A. Lee. "12 killed, 50 wounded at Aurora movie theater", Denver Post website, posted and accessed 20 July 2012.
  18. On Judeo-Christian beliefs, not the gun massacre.
  19. Bendery, Jennifer. "Louie Gohmert: Aurora Shootings Result Of 'Ongoing Attacks On Judeo-Christian Beliefs'", Huffington Post, posted and accessed 20 July 2012.
  20. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/24/gohmert-to-numbnuts-mccain-shut-up-about-bachmann%E2%80%99s-anti-muslim-attacks/
  21. Gohmert: Obama Advised by Muslim Brotherhood, Dispatches from the Culture Wars
  22. Rep. Gohmert Says America is Worse off Now than During Slavery, Right Wing Watch
  23. The Atlantic: Louie Gohmert Really Wants the US to Keep Referring to People as Lunatics
  24. [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louie-gohmert-opposes-gun-control-because-gay-marriage-leads-bestiality Louie Gohmert Opposes Gun Control Because Gay Marriage Leads to Bestiality,] Right Wing Watch
  25. Ibid.
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