Louie Gohmert enters race for Speaker of the House

NightHawkeye · Jan 5, 2015

The Washington Post is reporting that Steve King will not support Boehner:

Rep. Steve King: I will not vote for Boehner as speaker - The Washington Post
Kings beef with Boehner: allowing the passage of Obamacare and what King called the White Houses executive amnesty on immigration.

It takes a Speaker who both understands and believes his sworn duty is to use all the powers of his office to defend and restore the proper constitutional balance of powers, King wrote.

Albion · Jan 5, 2015

kermit said:
Neither Time nor Bachman could have predicted that ME oil sheiks would flood the market to drive oil frackers out of business. .

That really isn't the point. The claim was that there was no way, nothing, that could ever again cause us to see gas prices below $2. Any honest economist could see that Rep. Bachmann was right to say that that claim by the Obama administration was baloney.

kermit · Jan 5, 2015

Albion said:
That really isn't the point. The claim was that there was no way, nothing, that could ever again cause us to see gas prices below $2. Any honest economist could see that Rep. Bachmann was right to say that that claim by the Obama administration was baloney.

Wrong. Bachmann claimed if she were elected to POTUS that gas prices would drop to $2/gallon. That means that she was making a claim that there was some action that POTUS could take to make that happen. While it did happen, it most was not because of any POTUS or government action.

That is unless you are proposing that president Bachmann was suggesting that POTUS collude with foreign companies to drive US companies out of business.

Albion · Jan 5, 2015

kermit said:
Wrong. Bachmann claimed if she were elected to POTUS that gas prices would drop to $2/gallon.

That doesn't make what I said "wrong." :doh:

All you're doing is offering one way that prices could have been reduced. What she said has not been disproved in the least.

If she had been president, it is possible that prices could have come down through her policies, but they could have come down for a dozen reasons. The point remains this--she rebutted the Administration's claim that there was no way that we'd EVER see sub-$2 prices at the pump, and the Administration was wrong about that...as we see. There's no denying this.

No ducking or shuffling or tilting at verbal windmills on the part of those who delight in attacking Bachmann will change that.

stamperben · Jan 5, 2015

Ahhh... I can't wait for this face of Texas to take the Speakership!

kermit · Jan 5, 2015

Albion said:
That doesn't make what I said "wrong."

All you're doing is offering one way that prices could have been reduced. What she said has not been disproved in the least.

If she had been president, it is possible that prices could have come down through her policies, but they could have come down for a dozen reasons. The point remains this--she rebutted the Administration's claim that there was no way that we'd EVER see sub-$2 prices at the pump, and the Administration was wrong about that...as we see. There's no denying this.

No ducking or shuffling or tilting at verbal windmills on the part of those who delight in attacking Bachmann will change that.

That a foreign company is flooding manipulation to lower gas prices in no way proves that any policy that POTUS could enact would have been able to have the same effect.

Albion · Jan 5, 2015

stamperben said:
Ahhh... I can't wait for this face of Texas to take the Speakership!

May be an improvement over an orange-faced speaker weeping at odd moments on camera...and almost nothing rivals Harry Reid's countenance.

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NightHawkeye · Jan 5, 2015

stamperben said:
Ahhh... I can't wait for this face of Texas to take the Speakership!

I just hope we get rid of this one ...

stamperben · Jan 5, 2015

Albion said:
May be an improvement over an orange-faced speaker weeping at odd moments on camera...

Gee, I recall not too many years ago when someone on the left would call attention to those facets of the current Speaker we would get lambasted by the conservatives. Funny how things change.

Will y'all support us when we make note of the fact that Gohmert knows nothing of science, especially when we back it up with facts from his own mouth? Can I begin now?

Bedford · Jan 5, 2015

Albion said:
May be an improvement over an orange-faced speaker weeping at odd moments on camera

You say that now....

Be careful for what you wish.

I hope he wins!

NightHawkeye · Jan 5, 2015

I hope Trey Gowdy wins.

Albion · Jan 5, 2015

stamperben said:
Will y'all support us when we make note of the fact that Gohmert knows nothing of science, especially when we back it up with facts from his own mouth? Can I begin now?

I'm probably not going to support anything that begins with "y'all" but I don't think a recitation of some junk science stuff will advance this discussion about a possible new Speaker, no.

Bedford · Jan 5, 2015

stamperben said:
Will y'all support us when we make note of the fact that Gohmert knows nothing of science, especially when we back it up with facts from his own mouth? Can I begin now?

Why would they support the other side? From what I've seen none of these people know science, unless it is science as read in the Bible.

Albion · Jan 5, 2015

NightHawkeye said:
I hope Trey Gowdy wins.

Now...there's a guy with leadership abilities. But he's rather recent in being elected to the House.

stamperben · Jan 5, 2015

Albion said:
I'm probably not going to support anything that begins with "y'all" but I don't think a recitation of some junk science stuff will advance this discussion about a possible new Speaker, no.

Didn't think you would. But it was nice talkin' to y'all! :wave:

stamperben · Jan 5, 2015

NightHawkeye said:
I hope Trey Gowdy wins.

Albion said:
Now...there's a guy with leadership abilities. But he's rather recent in being elected to the House.

Funny... I thought this thread was about the leadership abilities of Tyler Texas' own Louie Gohmert.

But that's okay. I sense the embarrassment.

Albion · Jan 5, 2015

The number of Republican Congressmen publicly opposing Rep. Boehner is now 9, and it's promised to go to double figures today.

NightHawkeye · Jan 5, 2015

Albion said:
I'm probably not going to support anything that begins with "y'all" but I don't think a recitation of some junk science stuff will advance this discussion about a possible new Speaker, no.

How do you feel about the word, "ain't"?

... as in. I "ain't" going to support anything that begins with y'all.

Belk · Jan 5, 2015

The loonies are on the grass

Joykins · Jan 5, 2015

I guess the GOP will get the leadership it deserves. You have to put up with our cracks as we've already put up with the cracks about Pelosi.

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