Gohmert, long considered Congress’ most unhinged representative, didn’t disappoint. The Texas Tea Party Republican – who once defended a proposed oil pipeline by suggesting that caribou would love to mate on the warm pipes – was asked about his other obsession: Impeaching President Obama. A caller asked Gohmert to explain why Obama hadn’t been thrown out of office despite conservatives having “enough proof” that the president had “committed treasonous acts.”
Instead of setting the caller straight, Gohmert sympathized, saying he was “so grateful that there are people like you that understand just how detrimental this president has been to the ongoing of this country.” Unfortunately, he went on to explain, impeaching Obama just didn’t seem like it was likely to happen because for reasons Gohmert couldn’t fathom, most of the country doesn’t actually want to impeach him.
“There are not enough in the people in the country, across America, that want him removed from office before his office is over,” he sighed.
Rather than taking that as a sign that his own fantasies of Obama as a tyrant who needs to be stripped of his office are delusional, Gohmert believed this is because not enough people know what Obama is up to.
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