Hi! Welcome to the first edition of an intermittent series I just started highlighting my nomination of Crazy Republican Demogogue of the Day!
It's easy to play and feel free to write your own diaries with nominations. People can offer other nominations in the comments also. It's a fun game. There are no winners and losers, except the American public who has such crazy-ass demogogues in our Congress. Who's giving Joe McCarthy a run for his money today?
Here's one you can rarely go wrong with nominating on any day because his head is permanently up his ass: The racist right wing extremist Louis Gohmert, bozo from Texas. And what did he do today? Yet another false accusation that someone in the Obama administration is "on the side of the terrorists." Yes, he essentially accused Attorney General Eric Holder of treason today, of being on the side of the Boston Bombers who killed and maimed so many innocents. Par for the course for this guy.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) — who has spent the weeks following the bombing arguing that Obama’s “political correctness” prevented the FBI from stopping the attacks — appeared on the Glenn Beck radio show to argue that Holder’s history of defending terrorists allowed the judge to Mirandize Tsarnaev:
GOHMERT: Think about it, when your attorney general spent more of his legal career helping terrorists than defending the country, then you know we all have certain biases and lean certain ways.
Gohmert then went on to reiterate his belief that the Obama administration is guided by the Muslim Brotherhood. “[The administration] know who’s in there advising them,” Gohmert said, “either they lie under oath or they do know the extent of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into our government.”
Think Progress: Tea Party Congressman: Attorney General Holder Is On The Side Of The Boston Bombers
Pretty soon he'll be offering a secret list of "known" Muslim Brotherhood officials in the Obama administration (that no one but he can see, of course).
As bad as Gohmert is, who the fuck are the dumbshit racists who vote him in?
Fuck you, Mr. Gohmert.
There are so many demogogues in the post-policy Republican Party and they try to outdo each other for vile asshat of the day. Gohmert is off to a lead today, but the day is young. I'm looking at you, Michelle. Can you top asshat Gohmert?