Fox’s Dobbs Tears Into GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert: You Don’t ‘Control the Federal Government!
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) was just one of 199 Republicans who voted against raising the debt ceiling yesterday, in open defiance of House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). But when Gohmert appeared on Fox Business Network with Lou Dobbs Tuesday night, he received what seemed like 100% of the blame for what the host called pure “political theater” by the ultra-conservative wing of the GOP.
“How in the world do you expect the Republican Party to not find itself in the same strategic blind and bind that it was in last year when you guys shut down the federal government?” Dobbs demanded of Gohmert. “There comes a time where there just has to be some pragmatism. Go out an win an election, get 400 members, get 100 senators, get a presidency.”
“I don’t expect us not to be in the same bind, and that’s why I was so against what we did here,” Gohmert replied, using Joe Biden-worthy double negatives. When he started comparing the current situation to what Congress was dealing with in 2006, Dobbs interrupted him.
“In 2006 you had a Republican president, congressman!” Dobbs shot back. “You are surely aware of the fact that you are a majority in one branch of government!” He added, “You know as well as I do that half of the bills you’re passing are pure — and I think I may generous in my percentage — are absolutely political theater because you know they will die in the Senate, you know that a Democrat president will kill them. What do you expect to do when you are in the majority in one branch of government?”
When Gohmert defended the power of the Republican-controlled House, Dobbs interrupted again. “Again, I repeat, you are not in control of the federal government!” he said.
Ultimately Dobbs gave the last word to his guest. “When you do what is right, eventually it’s going to be politically popular,” Gohmert insisted. “That’s all I’m advocating, Lou. Stand up and do what’s right for the country and we didn’t do it today.”
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and here you had to remind me. 
I recall when he had his thing on CNN so long ago - the cameras on him were greased up good with vaseline to hide his true self and he had a picture of himself from about 26 years ago for his promos.
Oiy.
