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some vegetable fun in D.C. today
Revenge and asparagus are apparently dishes best served cold at least when served by Attorney General Eric Holder.
After a testy exchange Tuesday with Rep. Louis Gohmert, a Texas Republican who had clearly gotten on his last nerve, Holder delivered a dose of ridicule.
"Good luck with your asparagus," Holder said dismissively, in one of the most memorable moments of snark to occur in, oh, at least the last few hours between an Obama administration official and a Republican House member.
To really appreciate the moment, you had to know that Holder who's among the administration officials most detested by conservatives was mocking a Gohmert malapropism from last year that was committed during another bilious hearing involving the attorney general.
After Holder vigorously defended himself and his agency at that earlier hearing from Gohmert's accusation that the Justice Department failed to prevent the Boston Marathon bombing, a flustered Gohmert said: "The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus."
Your guess is as good as ours at what the congressman was going for there.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)rudolph the red
(666 posts)kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)rudolph the red
(666 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)that was often mocked on DU?
Along with
ITS HUGH!!!!!!!!111!!
SERIES?!!11!!
WE'RE SCREWN!1!!!1
Or did it originate with Gohmert?
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/louie-gohmert-eric-holder_n_3280953.html
Gardeners gone wild...
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)I remember DU mocking a Freeper for accusing someone of "casting asparagus" a few years before Gohmert said it. When I heard Gohmert say it years later I immediately wondered if he got the talking point from Free Republic because it is the only place I know of that complains about casting asparagus.
catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)I originally saw it used on a social forum going back 7 or 8 years, where it was written as a joke malapropism. Could well have been picked up by freepers I suppose, maybe they thought it was the correct way to refer to casting aspersions.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)At one point, someone had a collection of animated gifs of asparagus spears being catapulted, launched, and otherwise cast about, but I did not save them, alas.
-app
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)for not taking their s*$# today. Now they want to impeach the Attorney General. They represent the lowest form of humans.
dhill926
(16,355 posts)cab67
(3,007 posts)I've had colleagues overseas ask how, exactly, someone who can't be executed because of his low IQ can be in Congress.