The following is purportedly a transcript of Glenn Beck’s radio show. I assume it is accurate.
GLENN: I just got an email from Louie Gohmert. He said, last week I announced to the world if the House and Senate will treat Iran — the Iran treaty as a treaty, I will not run for my congressional seat again. It’s the only thing that I have left that our leadership wants beside my integrity. And after last week that I spent in Egypt, I feel so compelled to do absolutely everything I can to derail this president’s drastic move towards a nuclear holocaust. I won’t run again if the House voted on my attached resolution and the Senate voted on ratification. We have to get him on. This is a really big deal now. I just —
STU: Although I’d hate for the consequence to be Louie Gohmert not in Congress.
GLENN: I’ve talked to a couple of these guys. I’ve talked to a couple of these senators and congressmen who said, too far gone. Good guys, really big guys too, that have said, too far gone. I cannot be a part of this any longer. It’s far worse than it was when the Democrats had control, and I can’t do it anymore. Pray for our nation. We’re at a crossroads, and it’s time we stand and stand together and know what we’re standing for. It’s beyond the Constitution at this point.
I don’t know what’s more alarming, the unconstitutional elements, the nuclear holocaust part of it, or the idea that Congress would worse be off without having Louie Gohmert as an elected member.
Please proceed, Mr Gohmert…
Right. I love the idea of Gohmert threatening the Speaker and his Party by screaming to the press “If Congressional leadership fails to achieve the unachievable and kill the Iran nuclear deal, I won’t run for re-election to my extremely safe Republican District!!!”
Ex-Judge Gohmert does not understand how to judge the concept of effective leverage.
Hah!
The idea that Beck and Gohmert would finally give up and go home could be a dream come true.
“It’s far worse than it was when the Democrats had control…”
Well, duh. But out of the mouths of (Repub) imbeciles oft comes a truth…
It’s time for pitchforks in the streets!
If it’s not a smartphone app, not enough Americans would recognize it as a tool.
Why are they losing their cookies over such a relatively minor agreement (it’s not a treaty) with a relatively minor country (it’s not the USSR or Russia)? Maybe it’s true that Republicans in general weren’t always this crazy.
Or maybe it’s all about the campaign cash being dangled in front of their noses:
NYMag Sheldon Adelson Is Ready to Buy the Presidency He just hasn’t decided which Republican candidate to back. Care to make a pitch?
The other big post of cash, via NatJournal Top GOP Donors Form New Mystery PAC Focused on 2016
The guy should be locked up, a religious fanatic, or himself driopped by parachute above Tehran to find the 12th Imam. Bibi Netanyahu must find these Republican supporters of the End Times … comical? These Christians must convert all the Jews to the true faith … ask George W. Bush. For Gohmert, the disappointment in Washington DC must be of biblical proportions … Sodom and Gomorrah.
US Congress and American exceptionalism?? Leadership candidate for planet earth and its population of 7.4 billion! The USA represents about 4.5% of the total.
○ Tea Party Republican Louie Gohmert: Netanyahu the next King David
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Please note that this author is Joel C. Rosenburg and not Joel Rosenburg who wrote the Guardians of the Flame series.
One of them wrote exciting (if too “great man of history”) science fiction books. The other (JCR) writes boring polemic claptrap.
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