Shep Smith completely destroys the Republican's, and his cable network's, Uranium One conspiracy theory.

Courtesy of the Washington Post:  

But Smith, in his broadcast, made many of the same points as the fact-checkers. “Now, here’s the accusation,” he said. 

Nine people involved in the deal made donations to the Clinton Foundation totaling more than $140 million. In exchange, Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton approved the sale to the Russians, a quid pro quo. The [was] accusation first made by Peter Schweizer, the senior editor-at-large of the website Breitbart in his 2015 book “Clinton Cash.” The next year, candidate Donald Trump cited the accusation as an example of Clinton corruption. 

He then played a video of Trump’s version of the “scandal” in which he claimed: 

Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved the transfer of 20 percent of America’s uranium holdings to Russia. Well, nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation. Smith called the statement “inaccurate in a number of ways,” noting that “the Clinton State Department had no power to veto or approve that transaction.” Rather, it must be approved by an interagency committee of the government consisting of nine department heads, including the secretary of state. 

Most of the Clinton Foundation donations in question, he pointed out, came from Frank Giustra, the founder of the uranium company in Canada. But Giustra, 

Smith noted, “says he sold his stake in the company back in 2007,” three years before the uranium/Russia deal and “a year and a half before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state.” He added:

 . . . The accusation is predicated on the charge that Secretary Clinton approved the sale. She did not. A committee of nine evaluated the sale, the president approved the sale, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and others had to offer permits, and none of the uranium was exported for use by the U.S. to Russia.

I have to admit that hearing actual facts spouted by somebody on Fox News still seems like an out of body experience.

However Shepherd Smith, who I cannot believe is still working there, has done just that on a number of occasions and seemingly in defiance of his network's official position on certain stories.

I think we can all agree that the REAL victim here is Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert who probably spent hours yelling at his congressional aides to hurry up and put this graphic together so he could "Get them Clintons!"

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Here, care of Rep. Louie Gohmert's office, is the full chart he displayed at today's House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing. pic.twitter.com/dPSHtGvwqK

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) November 14, 2017

(I understand that if you drop acid it makes perfect sense.)

Cowardly Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert uses the shooting of Gabby Giffords as an excuse to avoid town halls. Giffords calls him out over it.

Louie Gohmert, who for all the world looks like an extra on the "Andy Griffith Show," posted this bullshit excuse on his website: 

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 Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot at a public appearance, that civilian attendees at Congressional public events stand the most chance of being harmed or killed—just as happened there.

Notice there is no mention of the fact that there would be far less risk at these town halls if everybody in the country could not buy a gun as easily as they buy a pint of milk.

It should also be mentioned that the shooting of Giffords happened way back in 2011, and Gohmert is just NOW getting frightened by it?

For her part Gabby Giffords has no intention of allowing this chicken shit to use her unfortunate incident as an excuse not to do his job.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Being the victim of gun violence didn't stop her from holding public events, she said in a statement. Since stepping down from Congress, Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, have made many public appearances on behalf of their group Americans for Responsible Solutions, which advocates for gun safety reform. 

She further noted that Ron Barber, her former district director who was also injured in the shooting, held town halls after succeeding her in Congress. 

"I was shot on a Saturday morning. By Monday morning my offices were open to the public. Ron Barber — at my side that Saturday, who was shot multiple times, then elected to Congress in my stead — held town halls. It's what the people deserve in a representative," Giffords said. On Tuesday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) invoked the 2011 shooting that killed six people as a reason not to hold a public town hall in his district.

It just shows that it is well past time to replace these cowardly little candy asses with strong Representatives who are not afraid to face criticism, or even a bullet or two. 

Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert says that Hillary Clinton is "mentally impaired." Seriously?

Courtesy of CNN: 

Rep. Louie Gohmert dove fully into health conspiracies about Hillary Clinton on Friday, declaring the Democratic presidential nominee "mentally impaired" multiple times. 

The Texas Republican was speaking at the Value Voters Summit, an annual gathering of social conservatives in Washington. He was telling a story about not taking the easy route in Congress, when he quipped: "When you look at the kind of people running for president, no-brainers are a good thing now." 

But while that comment seemed to include Republican Donald Trump, he attacked Clinton's health exclusively.

"A true believer does what Jesus did ... you don't make fun of people who are impaired, have special needs, and whether you like her or not, Hillary Clinton's made clear, she is mentally impaired," Gohmert joked, to some laughter from the crowd.

Wow! It takes some kind of balls to insult the intelligence of a presidential candidate when you are still referring to the manual to tie your big boy shoes.

Here are just a few of the things that Gohmert has said in the past:

About the imminent repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell."

I’ve had people say, ‘Hey, you know, there’s nothing wrong with gays in the military. Look at the Greeks. Well, you know, they did have people come along who they loved that was the same sex and would give them massages before they went into battle. But you know what, it’s a different kind of fighting, it’s a different kind of war and if you’re sitting around getting massages all day ready to go into a big, planned battle, then you’re not going to last very long. It’s guerrilla fighting. You are going to be ultimately vulnerable to terrorism and if that’s what you start doing in the military like the Greeks did … as people have said, ‘Louie, you have got to understand, you don’t even know your history.’ Oh yes I do. I know exactly. It’s not a good idea.

Yep that's the problem with gays in the military, all of those massages.

On  the possibility of no longer using the Alaska pipeline to pump oil.

So when [caribou] want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline. … So my real concern now [is] if oil stops running through the pipeline … do we need a study to see how adversely the caribou would be affected if that warm oil ever quit flowing?

Interfering with caribou procreation, that's why  we can never stop pumping Alaska crude through the pipeline.

Blaming the Aurora theater shooting on not enough Jesus.

You know what really gets me, as a Christian, is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and then some senseless crazy act of terror like this takes place. … We’ve threatened high school graduation participations, if they use God’s name, they’re going to be jailed … I mean that kind of stuff. Where was God? What have we done with God? We don’t want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present.

You know I don't remember him making the same argument after that Charleston church shooting.

So yeah, THIS is the guy suggesting that Hillary Clinton is "mentally impaired."

Well to be fair, he WOULD be an expert.

Support for the tea Party hits an all time low. Well finally some good news.

Courtesy of Gallup:  

Americans' support for the Tea Party has dropped to its lowest level since the movement emerged on the national political scene prior to the 2010 midterm elections. Seventeen percent of Americans now consider themselves Tea Party supporters, and a record 54% say they are neither supporters nor opponents.

The Tea Party emerged in 2009 in opposition to the fledgling Obama administration, and many Americans took sides for or against the movement in the midterm elections the next year. Support peaked at 32% in November 2010, just after those elections, in which Tea Party supporters were widely credited with helping the Republican Party gain control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

As support gradually eroded over the next year, opponents of the Tea Party gained the upper hand and have led supporters in all 10 Gallup polls measuring views of the movement since the start of 2012. Since August 2012, support has failed to reach 25%, and it has fallen below 20% in each of the last two polls.

Well that's all good news of course, and it explains why it appears that the moderate Republicans are starting to get the upper hand in the choosing of a new Speaker of House to replace John Boehner.

(Yes I know Paul Ryan sucks, but hey at least it's not Louie Gohmert!)

However here's the part that still bothers me.

If there is still 17% support for the Teabaggers, and 54% who seem agnostic towards them, then that leaves only 29% of us who are openly against them.

That seems like a much too low of a number to me.

I will not be happy until more than two thirds of the American people recognize that the Tea Party is made up of a bunch of ignorant racists, who could not pass a test on US History with a gun held to their head. 

Louie Gohmert teases the idea of running for President. That sound you heard was every late night comedian in the country's nipples suddenly becoming erect.

Courtesy of The Hill:  

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) sent mixed signals on his White House aspirations Thursday. 

The conservative firebrand first told The Hill that he might run for president in 2016. 

Gohmert indicated he might launch an exploratory committee for president when asked whether 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 an exploratory committee myself," Gohmert said in a statement emailed to The Hill from a spokesperson.

One of Gohmert's aides suggested that Gohmert was probably kidding, and used his lack of hair as a reason that he would not run.

But in my opinion that is blatant bald-ism.  And we will not stand for that kind of discrimination in this day and age.

Take moment here, close your eyes.  and just imagine a Republican 2016 lineup that included Ben Carson, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, and freaking Louis Gohmert.

Freaking Louie Gohmert!

It is enough to make this blogger froth at the mouth in anticipation.

You throw in a Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann and I would not even be able to get pants on over my ginormous political blogging boner.

If late night comedians were smart they would pool their resources and start a "Draft Louis Gohmert for 2016" SuperPAC. I know I would probably donate.

New spooky anti-gay documentary features Mike Huckabee, James Dobson, Phyllis Schlafly, and even a little Louie Gohmert.

Ooh why is that lady in the woods? Isn't she worried about having her family values attacked by a free roaming homosexual?

I mean if you are suddenly forced to get gay married in the woods and nobody hears you does God still double dip you in a bubbling pool of magma?

And what in the hell were all of those uptight assholes flipping out about?

(And for fun how many of them tripped your gay-dar?)

Little Green Footballs identifies the participants and their agenda: 

Among the participants are Rep. Steve King, Rep. Trent Franks, Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Sen. Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, David Barton, James Dobson, Mat Staver, Phyllis Schlafly, Scott Lively, Alveda King, Brian Camenker, Frank Pavone, Robert Knight, John Stemberger, and, of course, Porter herself, who can been seen walking around in the woods with a lantern, warning that gay activists are seeking to turn Christians into criminals.

So to be clear gay people who want to be married and to not be discriminated against are  actively attacking Christianity, and trying to silence the Gospels.

Oddly enough these are the same arguments trotted out against interracial marriage back in the 50's and 60's.

Some things never change. Especially when you take your cues from the Bible.

There are actually people in the world who chose Texas Rep. Louis Gohmert as legislator of the year for 2015. No, I am not kidding.

Courtesy of Eastex Advocate:

Over 300 people packed the atrium of the Omni Downtown Hotel in Austin Monday night for the Deep East Texas Reception. The event, honoring state officials and legislators representing the Deep East Texas region, was held the night before the convening of the 84rd Session of the Texas Legislature. 

State officials and state agency administrators met and got acquainted with representatives of the event’s sponsors. Members of the Deep East Texas legislative delegation attended as guest of honor. 

Congressman Louie Gohmert was recognized as the “Deep East Texas Legislator of the Year 2015.” The award is given biannually to a legislator that has shown outstanding efforts on behalf of the people of Deep East Texas.

Now I have never been to, or even heard of, Deep East Texas, but I already know I never want to go there. 

I now imagine that is must be kind of like Australia in the 18th century. Meaning that it is the place where America sends its criminally insane sociopaths to keep them away from the regular folks.

John Boehner easily wins reelection as Speaker of the House despite pathetic attempt by Teabaggers to oust him.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to once again make John Boehner its speaker, handing the Ohio Republican the gavel for the third time despite a late challenge by dissatisfied members of his own party. Tuesday's vote saw the most votes against a sitting speaker since 1923. 

In the final tally, Boehner received the votes of 216 House members, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) received 164 votes. A number of discontented Republicans, however, voted for other candidates, including Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), who, with 12 votes, got the most opposition votes from the GOP.

Sarah Palin as you all may know was pushing for anybody EXCEPT Boehner, but focused on two favorites: 

Please consider "Gunnin' for Gohmert" or going "Yahoo for Yoho" when you vote for Speaker of the House today. Both Representatives are true constitutional, commonsense conservatives who've proven to America they keep their promises to We the People.

Well as it turned out Gohmert only received three votes, one that he cast, and Yoho had only two.

So once again Palin backed those sure to lose.

Story of her life.

Louis Gohmert plans to challenge John Boehner for the job of Speaker of the House. And just when you thought the House Republicans could not get any crazier.

"I have no problem speaking in my house so what's the difference?"

Courtesy of Fox News:  

Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert said Sunday that he will challenge House Speaker John Boehner for his post when Congress returns this week to Washington. 

Gohmert, among the House Republican caucus’ most conservative members, made the announcement on “Fox and Friends,” saying he decided to run after Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., said Saturday that he would challenge Boehner for the chamber’s top post. 

“We have heard from a lot of Republicans that said, ‘I would vote for somebody besides speaker Boehner.’ But nobody will put their name out there,” Gohmert said. “That changed yesterday with Ted Yoho.”

“After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change,” Gohmert also said Sunday. “There have been numerous examples of problematic Republican leadership, but we were hopeful our leaders got the voters’ message. However, after our speaker forced through the CR omnibus by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership. There had been much discussion. But, until yesterday, no one had stepped up.”

Sure why not?

I mean it's not like anybody takes Congress seriously anymore anyway.

Just for take a moment, close your eyes, and imagine Louis Gohmert as Speaker of the House.

Which one are you doing, laughing or crying?

Louie Gohmert for President? Is ANYBODY wingnutty enough to want that to happen? Oh yeah.

Courtesy of Right Wing Watch:  

Anti-immigrant activist William Gheen, the head of Americans for Legal Immigration, stopped by VCY America’s “Crosstalk” program yesterday to discuss how a coalition of “big tycoons and kings and princes and emperors” is trying to take America down through immigration, thus taking away power from Americans who celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas and the Fourth of July, and his cunning plan to stop this from happening by having Rep. Louie Gohmert or Rep. Steve King ascend to the presidency. 

“The megawealth of the planet has never really been happy about the United States of America and this entire concept that we the people are self-governed and in charge and that big tycoons and kings and princes and emperors, like Obama’s acting like, are not in charge,” Gheen said. “And they’ve found a way to take over our corporations, to take over our media, to take over our country by facilitating a very costly and deadly illegal alien invasion.” 

He warned that Americans are in “mortal danger” from immigration and from the “growing anti-Christ spirit and anti-Christ movement in this country that is becoming stronger and more emboldened as the traditional conservative center-right Americans are displaced in our jobs and our politics and elections.” 

Aww, the brown people are giving this William Gheen guy a case of the sads.

So does he have some plan for turning this whol thing around?

Oh hell yeah!  

But luckily, Gheen has a solution. When a caller asked about how to “remove Obama from office,” Gheen proposed a simple plan. First, he said, “we’re working on Boehner and McConnell right now because those dominos have to fall and we can move to the next phase.” 

The next phase, he said, would be for Congress to impeach and remove both President Obama and Vice President Biden. 

Then the final piece of the puzzle comes into place: get Rep. Louie Gohmert or Rep. Steve King elected Speaker of the House, so he can ascend to the presidency until the next election is held.

Okay well first off that is the most convoluted plot I have heard in some time, and I have been binge watching the BBC series "Sherlock" for the last several days.

And secondly, though I do not usually consider myself the type to take up arms against my government, if somehow Louie "freaking" Gohmert were to be put in charge of the country you can bet I will be leading the northern resistance out of Alaska. 

And here I thought the worst thing that could happen is for Sarah Palin to be elected President.

This is from a few nights ago, but Stephen Colbert's take down of Louie Gohmert is something that should not be missed.

To play video click the Gohmert

"People have said to me 'Stephen you gotta understand you don't even know your history. You're dumb, you're dense. You're a mental midget with an IQ of a butter dish whose mind is a black hole that sucks all surrounding thought into it in an infinite singularity of pure stupidity. Stephen I'm surprised you can dress yourself. I bet you have to rub peanut butter inside your lips to remember to open your mouth to breathe. I have never met, and I hope to never meet again, a man so pervasively, astoundingly, unyieldingly, ignorant.' To which I say well then you haven't met Louis Gohmert."

God that was a thing of beauty.

Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert upset that President Obama worries more about climate change than ISIS or Ebola.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said this week that President Barack Obama was more worried about climate change than ISIS and Ebola, and he was allowing infected people to sneak into the county because he wanted everyone to “feel included.” 

Speaking to Newsmax host Steve Malzberg on Wednesday, Gohmert charged that the president “seems to have trouble taking anything seriously.” 

The Texas Republican said that it wasn’t surprising that the president was putting America at risk from Ebola because he believed that climate change was a bigger threat to the country. 

“More deadly to this country than Ebola is climate change, more deadly than the Islamic state to [beheading victim] Thomas Foley is climate change,” Gohmert said. “So what you’re talking about being common sense in Washington, in the Washington area, is only sense.”

Yes how dare the President be more concerned about a problem will eventually kill millions of people on this planet, and possibly make portions of it inhabitable, than to focus on yet another terrorist group and another outbreak of a disease that has periodically erupted into the news cycle for about forty  years now.

Having Louie Gohmert attack you for having your priorities wrong is kind of like having Sarah Palin sneer at you for having uncontrollable children.

Bill Maher finally chose his candidate for his "Flip a District" campaign.

My favorite part:

"Now someday for sure, absolutely no doubt, Louie Gohmert, who talks like somebody whose name is Louie Gohmert, will be arrested naked masturbating in the street."

Still not exactly sure how Gohmert missed getting selected.

By the way I have to say that my favorite part of the show last night, was watching Jerry Seinfeld  out funny Maher. Jerry was incredibly fast and virtually everything he said elicited huge laughs from the audience.

Gee you know, maybe HE should get a show on television. Might be successful.

Attorney General gives Rep. Darell Issa a good bitch slapping, calling his conduct "unacceptable, and it’s shameful."

Here is the transcript provided by Politicususa:

Issa: Mr. Attorney General, our investigators have seen thirty four of the thirty five admitted emails that violate the Federal Records Act. They’ve only seen the to and from. They’ve not seen the deliberative contents, and they have not seen the remainder of the 1,200 emails. Mr. Cummings, my ranking member joined in a letter requesting that we have the full contents pursuant to our subpoena of all 1,200. Will make them available to the committee based on our bipartisan request? 

Holder: I will certainly look at the request. It’s not something that I have been personally been involved in, but I’ll look at the request and try to be as responsive as we can. I’m sure there must have been a good reason why the to and from parts were…. 

Issa: Yes, you didn’t want us to see the details. Mr. Attorney General, knowing the to and from… 

Holder: No, No. That’s what you do. I’m not going to stop talking now. You characterized as something those…of the people in the Justice Department. That is inappropriate and is too consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of Congress. It’s unacceptable, and it’s shameful.

I found that exchange especially satisfying and I think that Darrell Issa is an arrogant pretentious asshole, who has used his position as the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to attack the Obama administration non-stop.

Of course as entertaining as that was (And it really was!), it almost pales in comparison to the blow up between Holder and Texas Representative, and Elmer Fudd lookalike, Louie Gohmert, which culminated in Gohmert accusing Holder of "casting aspersions on my asparagus."

Which I believe is a hanging offense in Texas.

(Video courtesy of TPM.)