Rep. Louie Gohmert Wonders If Obama Chose Debt Ceiling Deadline To Coincide With His Birthday Party

[DearAbby]

While a startling number of House Republicans refuse to accept experts’ dires warnings about the possibility of default come Aug. 2 if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) thinks he has stumbled across the Obama administration’s real motivation behind choosing that date. Many Republicans think the August date is a phony deadline Democrats invented to scare Congress into raising the ceiling, but Gohmert sees a more personal significance for President Obama — his 50th birthday on Aug. 4 and his birthday party on the 3rd.

The fact that the party is the day after the debt deadline is something Gohmert finds awfully suspicious, he told Newsmax TV yesterday, suggesting that Obama chose the date so he could be a hero at his “birthday bash” for the “celebrities flying in from all over”:

GOHMERT: And I can’t help but be a little bit cynical here. Because we find out the president has a big birthday bash scheduled for August the 3rd, celebrities flying in from all over. And lo and behold, August 2nd is the deadline for getting something done so he can have this massive, the biggest fundraising dinner in history for a birthday celebration. <...> Isn’t that amazing? The timing of this?

Watch it with more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/18/271650/louie-gohmert-debt-obama-birthday/

[ClassWarrior]

1. Rep. Class Warrior Wonders How Many Times Mrs. Gohmert Dropped Little Louie on His Head.

:rofl:

NGU.

[sakabatou]

2. OFFS

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I agree with Alvey . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6owNx6zHPI

[gratuitous]

4. Oooh, that dastardly Obama!

First, he arranges for his phony baloney birth certificate to be doctored up 45 years ahead of time, and he even had the nefarious cunning to claim his date of birth to coincide with a possible default by the United States government 50 years down the line. The plan was so devious, so clever, and he would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for that meddling Louie Gohmert!

Please tell me Texas can produce one Democratic candidate to defeat this garbanzo in 2012.

[CatWoman]

8. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:hi:

:loveya:

[gratuitous]

9. Zoinks!

:loveya:

[Warren Stupidity]

5. 'cause he is a secret islamo-fascist commie who hates 'murka?

which also explains why he had OBL killed - just to confuse the heck out of us.

[hobbit709]

6. Loony Louie flaps jaws again.

[ej510]

7. He doesn't believe what he is saying, but he has to say crazy ass shit in

order to get his stupid ass supporters riled up.

[onenote]

10. Louie's birthday is August 18

Maybe he's just upset that the deadline doesn't coincide with HIS birthday.

[winston65]

11. Even by Texas standards

this guy is an absolute idiot drooler.

[Erose999]

12. Well sha-zam it's Gohmert Pyle.