Congressman Louie Gohmert Makes Comparison Between Energy Independence Debate & Battle Over Slavery
Vince Leibowitz | Aug 11, 2008 | Comments 0
Leave it to Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Tyler) to do something as stupid as compare the “energy independence” debates in Congress to the great debates over slavery that happened in the U.S. Congress well more than a century ago.
And, of course, his attempt to weasel out of it is caught on video:
You may recall that this isn’t the first time Gohmert’s loud mouth has gotten him into trouble.
A while back, he had his ass handed to him by Jack Murtha:
Gohmert, once called “chickenshit thief,” by a Congressional colleague (in addition having a daughter who has not-so-conservative photos all over Facebook and recently authoring an idiotic bill to move GUITMO detainees to the grounds of the U.S. Supreme Court building), authored an amendment that would have essentially killed the Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act at one point in 2006, and did his best throughout the summer of 2006 to derail the VRA’s reauthorization. And, let’s not forget his mucking up of the famous “I Have A Dream” speech.
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According to one East Texas congressman, we’ve arrived at the end of days. Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Tyler), who once comparedenergy independence to slavery, has just put the world on notice. Legalize gay marriage, and the end of the world is NIGH!!!! Iowa, can you hear him? Its over for you. Locusts, hail and the four horsemen are about to descend on your cornfields. Don’t believe us, Rep. Gohmert says it
