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Texas Republican: Obama’s Using Libya To Deplete The Military So He Can Raise A Private Army

Doug Mataconis
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It’s time once again for a trip into the very special mind of Congressman Louie Gohmert, who spoke on the House floor last night about the Libyan situation:

It’s a bad bill. And then when you find out that the prior Congress not only passed that 2,800 page bill with all kinds of things in it, including a new president’s commissioned officer corps and non-commissioned officer corps. Do we really need that? I wondered when I read that in the bill. But then when you find out we’re being sent to Libya to use our treasure and American lives there, maybe there’s intention to so deplete the military that we’re going to need that presidential reserve officer commissioned corps and non-commissioned corps that the president can call up on a moment’s notice involuntarily, according to the Obamacare bill.

The “corps” that Gohmert refers to is the new Ready Reserve Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, something that had been proposed back during the Bush Administration as a way to ensure that the Federal Government could organize immediate medical care in the event of a mass casualty disaster.

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16 responses to “Texas Republican: Obama’s Using Libya To Deplete The Military So He Can Raise A Private Army”

  1. Murray Avatar
    Murray

    The most depressing is that there are enough f-tards to get this kind of loon in Congress.

    Never forget that we have the government we diverse.

  2. Murray Avatar
    Murray

    I meant deserve not diverse (coffee doesn’t replace sleep).

  3. Jay Dubbs Avatar
    Jay Dubbs

    I realze its Texas and all, but seriously, how does this guy keep getting re-elected?

  4. mantis Avatar
    mantis

    Gohmert, Bachmann, Broun and other batshit insane national Republicans been beating the Obama wants a private army/Gestapo/SS drum for years. They also think he’s going to send the nation’s youth to re-education camps.

    The Republican Party has gone absolutely, 100% insane. I can’t believe any American would vote for a single one of them. They will be the death of all of us.

  5. MarkedMan Avatar
    MarkedMan

    The real test isn’t whether there are loons in the Republican party. Loons get elected all the time. (And yes, the fact that a district elects these loons definitely would weigh into a decision to say, open a manufacturing facility in their district.) The test is whether their ideas are embraced or repudiated by the party leaders. I think we get a resounding “FAIL” on that from the Republican side.

  6. JKB Avatar
    JKB

    Jeez, he couldn’t be further off. The PHS ready reserve is a plot to draft all the doctors and nurses into involuntary service thus placing all control of medical care in the hands of the White House. Look, if we’re going to have good conspiracy theories, people have got to keep up and tie them to at least a few of the facts.

  7. john personna Avatar
    john personna

    Nobody brings the crazy like Texas Republicans.

  8. reid Avatar
    reid

    There’s clearly something wrong with enough people in districts that elect loons like this. (Too much lead in the water? Hm, maybe this is why they’re trying to eliminate the EPA….) But surely some Democrat or even moderate Republican will use this in the next election? Did Bachmann’s opponent run ads with some of her nuttier moments?

  9. MarkedMan Avatar
    MarkedMan

    Bachmann keeps getting re-elected. I’m sure her constituents are well aware of her statements.

  10. reid Avatar
    reid

    MM: Probably true, though she’s gotten more notoriety in the last few years.

  11. James V Feragola Avatar
    James V Feragola

    You people remind me of the Japanese soldiers that were stationed on small islands in the pacific that had no idea the war had been over for a few years.

  12. Neil Hudelson Avatar
    Neil Hudelson

    Anyone want to interpret what James V meant?

  13. Tano Avatar
    Tano

    not worth the time

  14. tom p Avatar
    tom p

    Bachmann keeps getting re-elected. I’m sure her constituents are well aware of her statements.

    my sister lives in her district… not that she will admit it.

  15. Steve Verdon Avatar
    Steve Verdon

    The Republican Party has gone absolutely, 100% insane. I can’t believe any American would vote for a single one of them. They will be the death of all of us.

    Oh please, it is just an example of Jane’s law that the party in power is smug and arrogant and the party out of power is completely insane. We saw it just a few years ago and things were reversed. Standard American politics….don’t get me wrong its not a good thing, but these prognostications of doom are just silly…especially when the party out of power gets back in power they become smug and arrogant not insane.

  16. mantis Avatar
    mantis

    Oh please, it is just an example of Jane’s law that the party in power is smug and arrogant and the party out of power is completely insane

    Republicans were insane when they were in power. If you don’t think they’ve gone off the deep end as a political party, you’re not paying attention.

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