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npr's coverage of congress tonight was pretty funny.

and they actually weren't trying to be funny. much.

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Devious, in that uniquely Republican send-fake-emails-accusing-me-of-gay-sex-to-cover-my-actual-sex-affair way.

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Louie and them are mad because we can't have our way with everyone anymore. They want to ignore the painful lesson we keep learning in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. They want to ignore the debt and instigate more pointless military adventures. They're mad, as in insane.

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Does Gohmert make your pee smell?

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Louie Louie, oh noSayin' we gotta go, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeahSaid Louie Louie, oh babySaid we gotta go

I said we gotta go nowLet's take this on outta hereLet's go!

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Gohmert represents East Texas. Remove one Gohmert and another will take his place. It's the epitome of futility.

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Great! He'd finally have some brains!

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You have to ask?

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India, Pakistan and North Fucking Korea don't sit on yoooge oil deposits. Oil company profits will fall even further when Iran gets to turn the spigot on again.

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Other Gohmert threats he's used in past negotiations:

"If you make me clean my room, I will eat all my vegetables from now on."

"If you don't come down from sticker price on this, then I'm getting the undercoating, for sure."

"If you break up with me, then I'll move away and you'll never see me again."

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There will only be one quitter in my heart. xoxo Sarah!

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if they knew more then 800 words they were smuter thn him so they was OUT!

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As W so amply demonstrated with his "brilliant" North Korea policy, if a country wants the US to back off, get a nuke.

The problem with using nukes this way is, the more there are, the more likely an accidental launch due to a technical or command and control problem. As almost happened a couple of times during the height of the cold war. The problem with MAD is that it works great until it suddenly very much makes things worse.

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'Rockbox' Gohmert could never get a job this good. He's staying.

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and this is what it's really all about folks!

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Pretty sure his plan involves a lot of losing on twitter to Iran, breath holding, temper-tantrum throwing and oh yeah, probably bombing them because our American War Machine hasn't had a good war in a whole minute.

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