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Rep. Louie Gohmert: The sequester an Obama conspiracy to fund ‘ACORN-like groups’
Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:14
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) suggested Wednesday the sequester was a conspiracy by President Barack Obama to cut defense spending and raise money for community organizing groups.

Speaking on the House floor, Gohmert said the timing of Obama’s meeting with congressional leaders over the sequester was evidence the President really wanted the across-the-board budget cuts to happen. He claimed the sequester was actually a plot by Obama to cut defense spending and transfer money to “ACORN-like” groups that would help elect Democratic candidates. (Read more…)

“We hear today the President is now saying on Friday after the sequestrations have started and the military is having all these massive layoffs — and actually the truth be known, after the President will have gotten what he’s been hoping and trying to get for years even as a U.S. senator and that is big cuts to the Defense Department — after the Defense Department cuts kick in then and only then is he going to sit down and talk to congressional leaders,” he said.

“We’ll that’s not hard to figure out,” Gohmert continued. “What a great political ploy. What a great political plan to a year and a half ago come up with the idea, which the White House did, they came up with the idea of this massive sequester, and the biggest loser would be the Defense Department.”

“And then after he gets the cuts to defense that he has been pushing for for years and years, going back to his days as a U.S. senator, he gets to come forward and spend millions and millions of dollars running around on Air Force One condemning Republicans in the House for cutting defense. What a great thing. He cuts defense, which he has been wanting to do for years, forces Republicans to go along with it, and a year and a half later blames Republicans for cutting defense and says, ‘I wouldn’t have done that, but now that defense is cut, now lets talk about restoring some of that money to the ACORN-like groups out there that are going to suffer because they are not going to have money to spend on electing Democrats in the next election if we don’t return the sequester money.’”

The sequester, part of a political deal to raise the federal debt ceiling in 2011, would cut defense spending by about $55 billion. Non-defense spending would also be cut by $27 billion.

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Gohmert: Voters need ‘at least 50 rounds’ in magazines to take out drones
Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:19
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says constituents are telling him that high-capacity magazines should not be banned because people need “at least 50 rounds” to shoot down government drones.

During Thursday interview on Freedom 107 radio, host Jeff Akin asked the Texas Republican how he felt about using unnamed aerial drones for domestic law enforcement.

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“It’s pretty offensive to most of us,” Gohmert opined. “Most of us think if you’re going to use a drone and fly over our homes to analyze what’s going on in our backyard — not a lot of talk’s been given — but if you can fly over in the backyard, you can use all kinds of technology to see what’s happening inside the home as well. And I know there’s been a judge, and this former judge sure thinks you ought to have a warrant to do that kind of thing.”

“But I had somebody last week in Washington from either Georgia or Alabama that was saying, ‘Look, this goes back to we have got to have at least 50 rounds in our magazines because on average that’s about how many it takes to bring down a drone.’ I hope he was kidding, I don’t know for sure.”

“It is serious when the government decides, let’s just watch every little thing Americans are doing,” he added. “It’s big brother taken to a whole new scale.”

While they were on the topic of guns and the Second Amendment, Akin also wondered what bills liberals were planning “that could violate that amendment.”

“They want the elimination of firearms in America,” Gohmert declared. “Some of them have the idea that the Second Amendment was there to allow hunting, not true. You know, it is for our protection — and the Founders’ quotes make that very clear — including against a government that could run amuck.”

“You know, we’ve got some people who think that Sharia law ought to be the law of the land, forget the Constitution,” he asserted. “But the guns are there, that Second Amendment is there to make sure all the rest of the amendments are followed.”

Gohmert said that he understood the emotional nature of the issue because one of his friends had lost a husband due to gun violence, but he insisted that “we’ve got to let our head be what prevails.”

“Sometimes when you run in with your heart, you make bad laws.”

Listen to the audio below from Freedom 107′s The Voice of Freedom, broadcast Feb. 21, 2013.

 

(h/t: Think Progress)

 
Rep. Gohmert calls on Obama’s former students to file class-action lawsuit
Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:53
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Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said Monday night that President Barack Obama had a poor understanding of the Constitutional despite teaching constitutional law at one of the most prestigious universities in the country.

Gohmert, along with Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), appeared on Fox News’ Hannity to discuss a recent court ruling that found Obama had violated the Constitution when making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). (Read more…) The three-judge panel said the Senate remained formally in session when Obama made the appointments during Christmas break.

“It is part of the Constitution,” Gohmert said. “I think one of the big legal ramifications that should come out of this is a class-action lawsuit by all of those who had him as a constitutional law instructor to get their money back. I think it would be a lay-down case for them.”

Obama was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School before launching his political career.

“This guy does not respect the Constitution, he does not abide by the Constitution, and we’ve seen it repeatedly,” Gohmert added.

Blackburn also alleged the President didn’t respect the Constitution and tried to circumvent Congress.

Watch video, uploaded to YouTube by Rep. Gohmert, below: