Some of us were traveling to the Middle East last August, a year ago. And a lady on the plane was telling one of our group that they were about to have their second granddaughter. Her husband was with Hamas, her grand — I’m sorry her son-in-law was with Hamas. And that they were going to do with the second as they did with the first grandchild. Daughter is going to come to America right before it’s born on a tourist visa. Have the baby. They just like the option of having American citizens in the family. […] We’re bringing them over here on tourist visas, some illegally, letting them be born here and saying this is an American citizen. So come back in 20, 25 years when you’re ready to blow us up.
You might think I write about Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert because he’s an easy target (he is). You might think I write about Gohmert because of my antipathy towards Texas (not altogether untrue). You might even think I write about Gohmert because he hasn’t had a coherent, rational thought since the Carter Administration (DING!! TELL THEM WHAT THEY’VE WON, JOHNNY!!!). I mean, Good Lord, y’all; how stupid do you have to be to engage in the sort of mental masturbation Gohmert frequently, and very publicly, does?
Of course, having escaped from Texas after 10+ years on the Gulf Coast, I can understand how Gohmert probably feels the need to bring the crazy. Hell, given the district he represents, the challenge probably lies in keeping up with his consitutents when it comes to crazy, brain-dead conspiracy theories. Still, the man’s an elected Representative; would it be too much to expect him to function in thr realm of the real and the rational? Uh…on second thought, don’t make me answer that question.
First of all, travelers tell all sorts of storys. On a business trip once upon a time, I once told a deadheading stewardess that I was a professional golfer (OK, I’ll admit it; I was trying to get laid). Hearing something in an airport or on an airplane is apropos of nothing.
Second, If Gohmert was aware of this sort of thing, why has he waited until now to say something? Why did he not go to Homeland Security to raise this issue? Why did hewait until was a guest on a reliably Conservative media outlet, where he knew he’d be guaranteed only softball questions? Uh, hello?? SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING???
Third, what is Gohmert proposing? That only people that look like us be allowed in on tourist visas? That pregnant Brown People be barred from entry until they’ve dropped their little Bambino on foreign soil? Gohmert is one of the Republicans most visibly campaigning to invalidate the 14th Amendment, which guarantees American citizenship to any child born on American soil, though he fails to demonstrate how doing so would improve Fatherland Homeland Security. Yeah, right; it would be SO much easier (and we’d be SO much safer) if we just excluded Brown People altogether.
Of course, one probably should be impressed with Gohmert’s ability to predict the future. That he knows what’s going to be happening 20-30 years down the road truly is something I’m truly in awe of. Perhaps I should take him with me the next time I feel the need to buy lottery tickets, eh?
Sometimes, I really miss handing out my DUMB@$$ AWARDS. Few have proven themselves as worth of that award as Louie Gohmert. If I ever do bring them back, perhaps I should just rename it the “Louie Gohmert Award”? Though I poke copious fun at Gohmert and his ilk, there is in truth really little that’s funny about the lack of intellectual agility and the fragile grip on truth and reality that Gohmert brings to his job. Gohmert might as well be the Congressman from the set of Idiocracy. Given his constituents, it would be tough to argue otherwise.
