GOP Rep Offers Amendment Prohibiting Obama From Playing Golf Until White House Tours Resume

[Tx4obama]

GOP Rep Offers Amendment Prohibiting Obama From Playing Golf Until White House Tours Resume

On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced that the across-the-board sequester cuts will result in the cancellation of all White House tours indefinitely. This no doubt upset ticket holders, but it also seems to have struck a nerve with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), who introduced an amendment to a continuing resolution on the federal budget that seeks to block President Obama from using federal funds for any future golf outings until the tours are reinstated:

None of the funds made available by a division of this Act may be used to transport the President to or from a golf course until public tours of the White House resume.

Gohmert’s continuation of his party’s infatuation with Obama’s golf game distracts from the bigger picture: namely, that the Republican Party has thus far refused to compromise with the White House or congressional Democrats to delay or bypass entirely the sequestration, which would, among other things, fund White House tours.

And there was a suspicious lack of golf-related legislation from Gohmert when his own party took the opportunity to laud their own victory in the taxpayer-funded Congressional Challenge Cup.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/03/05/1677941/gop-rep-offers-amendment-prohibiting-obama-from-playing-golf-until-white-house-tours-resume/

[monmouth3]

1. All I can come up with is ...disgusting.....I got nothing...n/t

[Cali_Democrat]

2. No surprise that it's teabagger Louie Gohmert

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Gohmert really is doing his best

to make fucking idiots look bad.

[MADem]

4. What fucking crust! Porgie only allowed the "connected to the Politburo" crowd in the WH!

If POTUS pays for his round, the GOP House can go fuck themselves.

[Botany]

5. Louie Gohmert where the concepts of dumb and fuck come together and take human form

[Frustratedlady]

6. These clowns should be charged for the time, labor and paper they waste

on these frivolous amendments/bills.

It is looking more and more like Congress is one giant kindergarten class. (I apologize to my kindergarten great-grandchildren for the comparison, as they actually behave like 8th graders compared to this group.)

If Boehner can't control them, then those with seniority (and some semblance of common sense) should step in and demand they quit horsing around and get back to work on serious issues.

[Botany]

10. Don't you understand "they" are fighting against "big liberal government debt?"

@ one time my dad worked at the republican national committee and was a professor
@ Universities (smart too) .... our next door neighbor's brother in a very middle class neighborhood
was governor of PA ..... Ray Shafer ...... he was republican and a good guy ...
played with us kids and later on looked up his record and he was very progressive but
this group of ass carrots are way over the top in being bat shit crazy and or nasty mother
fuckers who don't like the American people.

[niyad]

7. dear goddess, I thought for sure that was going to be an Onion piece (or, I guess, HOPING it would)

I have said it before, we have to come up with new words to describe the absolute levels of stupidity, hatred, ignorance and pure foolishness that the cretins are demonstrating. our language is simply not capable of expressing these new levels.

[red dog 1]

8. This is like something from "The Onion"

[bluedigger]

9. If he had made it until he (Gohmert) got his head out of his ass, it could have been permanent.

[winter is coming]

11. I'd like to see a bill prohibiting the GOP from playing politics until functional gov't resumes. nt

[BlueSpot]

12. It's getting to the point where

Congress critters need to be charged to introduce legislation. Maybe give them "Congress Bucks" at the beginning of each new session. Then every time they introduce new legislation, they have to pay some of those back. When you don't have enough anymore, you're done. No new legislation from you until next term or you get re-elected. That should cut down on some of this stupidity.

I guess other rules should include that you're not allowed to pool resources so the doorstops can't aid the crazys. Also, the total amount should be pretty small. If you want to spend your credit to rename a post office (assuming there will be post offices in the future) then you are somewhat limited in what you can do after that. If you want to introduce legislation on how the POTUS should spend his leisure time, that also limits you in the future. On the other hand, if you have something worthwhile to offer, that would be worth it.

When something becomes rare, it becomes valuable; not to be wasted. Right now they can introduce stupid legislation right and left with no consequence. If that was somehow limited and people see their own congress critters wasting their influence on this sort of lunacy, maybe they would think harder about their next vote.

[Arkana]

13. Why am I not surprised that that fucking waste of air Louie Gohmert

is the one behind this?

e: Obama should invite Gohmert to come play a few rounds with him--just to poke the hornet's nest a little.

[Third Doctor]

14. Gohmert is stuck on stupid

it should be a crime to stand up and waste time in the people's house.

[leftynyc]

15. How about a bill

holding back congressional salaries instead of voting themselves a raise?

[Paladin]

16. Louie Gohmert Makes Rick Perry Look Like Thomas Jefferson, By Comparison. (nt)