Louis Gohmert, a U.S. Representative from Tyler, Texas, is probably the most ridiculous member of the House of Representatives. For example, last year he argued in a House committee meeting that the caribou population of Alaska would be decimated if the pipelines stopped pumping oil. Why?
The caribou very much enjoy the warmth the pipeline radiates. “So when they want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline,” he informed his colleagues. It’s apparently the equivalent of being wined and dined. And that has resulted in a tenfold caribou population boom, he concluded.
“So my real concern now …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?” he asked.
Is he crazy, or is he crazy and representing Texas’s East Oil Field?
Back in 2010, he lost his mind on CNN when he described his theory of terror babies to Anderson Cooper. Actually, he first brought up terror babies on the floor of the House. Anderson Cooper was just trying to discover what the fuck he was talking about.
More recently, he blamed the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado on ecumenical graduation speeches, and accused Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff at the State Department of being unduly influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood.
So, that’s the context we should have before we start mocking his amendment to legally bar the president from golfing.
OFFERED BY MR. GOHMERT OF TEXAS
At the end of division C (before the short title), insert the following:
1 SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by a division of this Act may be used to transport the President to or from a golf course until public tours of the White House resume.
Yes, you read that correctly. Because of the Sequester, the White House has to cut something like $85 million from the Secret Service’s budget, so they’re canceling White House tours instead of firing highly-paid professionals.
So, NO GOLF!
