{"id":29169,"date":"2020-06-25T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29169"},"modified":"2020-06-25T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:29:58","slug":"the-goofball-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/06\/25\/the-goofball-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goofball Of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is rather like putting your fingers in your ears because you can&#8217;t stand the truth, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Representative] Louie Gohmert [(R-TX)] bangs his desk during the opening statement of former deputy attorney general Donald Ayer at a hearing into the politicisation of the Department of Justice under current attorney general, William Barr. Gohmert was threatened with removal after he complained Ayer exceeded his allotted time<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2020\/jun\/25\/republican-congressman-louie-gohmert-repeatedly-bangs-on-desk-during-house-hearing-on-barr-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Donald Ayer&#8217;s a prominent Democrat, though, so that would justify everything, right? Ooops, he was appointed by Reagan to be a US Attorney, and Bush I as deputy AG. Maybe he&#8217;s, like, one of those competent people who are simply horrified by the Trump Administration? That might be a trifle closer to the truth.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a video of the kid at work in the above link. He&#8217;s quite the immature legislator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/north-sea.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29170 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/north-sea.jpeg?resize=336%2C224&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/north-sea.jpeg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/north-sea.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/north-sea.jpeg?resize=225%2C150&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/north-sea.jpeg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a>With a <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/congress-trump-score\/louie-gohmert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>TrumpScore<\/em><\/a> of 85%, Gohmert&#8217;s a middlin&#8217; Trumpie. I suspect that Gohmert is appalled at the thought that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/news\/east-texas-a-place-louie-gohmert-and-donald-trump-share-politically-10911094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ideology he shares with Trump<\/a> might burn right to the ground as more and more of the truth is disclosed &#8211; and cost him a job, even though he wins overwhelming victories in TX-1. So he&#8217;ll stick his finger in the dike and hope he can hold back what is beginning to appear to be the entire North Sea.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually looking forward to hearing the results of his reelection run. With a <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Louie_Gohmert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">46 point win in 2018<\/a>, he has 23 points to free fall, but if his old buddy Trump continues to mismanage everything he touches, Gohmert might find the floor coming up mighty fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is rather like putting your fingers in your ears because you can&#8217;t stand the truth, isn&#8217;t it? [Representative] Louie Gohmert [(R-TX)] bangs his desk during the opening statement of former deputy attorney general Donald Ayer at a hearing into the politicisation of the Department of Justice under current attorney \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/06\/25\/the-goofball-of-texas\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29172,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29169\/revisions\/29172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}