Rep. Louie Gohmert says that when Obama argued that we can no longer have a few rich make it when some many are hurting, that it’s Obama himself who has done more to help the rich get richer and the poor get poor than any president that he can recall in his lifetime.

On the debt ceiling legislation currently in the works, Gohmert slams it saying that the millionaires in the Senate shouldn’t be given the power over whether he gets his salary in the House. He also adds that there could be no bigger effort in futility than to try and get the Senate to pass a budget with budget cuts, saying we might as well be jousting at windmills.

So basically he’s not going to support the legislation with spending cuts or a balanced budget amendment.

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semihardrock
semihardrock

ALL minorities have NEVER had Freedom. US Southern Border is proof BUT the same people who are coming....illegally...are the same people who have never had a US President who SHOULD stand for TRUE Freedom. They not only bring their bodys across the Border but also thier MINDS...which have elected corrupt politicians, dictators and socialists.

US Blacks....who claim to never have Freedom in the US....NEVER HAVE! Including before they were put on ships and sold as Slaves to US Profiteers. They WERE SLAVES before they came here and sold by Blacks in Africa which will NEVER be taught by the Dept of Education.

So, in a sense.....THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN FREE and the stupid are much easier to manipulate/brainwash in an Election Cycle, on Internet, in Mainstream News, on Television.

They DIDNT vote for a US President....They voted for a King!

Feisty68
Feisty68

1 million were at the inauguration and only 40 missed work.

davienne
davienne

I wish they would stop saying "WE" are bankrupting the country.. when its the gimmiecrats that cant stop the spending... there is not a debt problem .. there is a spending problem... JMHO

12grace
12grace

Unlike the leftists' president obama, Rep. Louie Gohmert loves the G-d of the bible and our country. Gohmert knows exactly what and who obama is...

sjmom
sjmom

My favorite Congressman. Louie always has a word imbued with wisdom and common sense. God bless him.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

We all knew this... but America in general was too busy watching American Idol or some other worthless show. I still shake my head over being stuck four more years with these monsters (Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Boehner, McConnell, Cantor, Schumer, little Dick Durbin...).

jleinf
jleinf

Gohmert and about 20 others are keepers the rest should be given pink slips.

sue-marie
sue-marie

Gohmert is right...at no time like the present has the gap been this wide. Obama has given more corporate welfare than any other president...in fact...in the new tax package they just passed...the WH insisted billions of dollars for Corp. Welfare (tax breaks) to reward those companies that gave to his campaign. What is sad is that we all know this but the masses (low information voters) do not. This is where MESSAGING by the GOP is SO important. Obama gets his message out...it is PAST time we do too!

K-Bob
K-Bob

Louie was a little bit too bland in his appearance, but his words were correct. He needs to sound like more like Mark Levin while saying them.

For more fired up commentary, go check out Stacy McCain's keelhauling of Erick Erickson, and the comments there, too.

kong1967
kong1967

I like Lou Dobbs, but what the hell? It's slipping backwards to want spending cuts and/or a balanced budget amendment? So the only way to move forward (I hate that word) is to give Obama what he wants with no cuts? I don't think so.

aposematic
aposematic

Couldn't follow Gohmert on much but: "Obuma has done more to help the rich get richer and the poor get poorer than any President that he can recall." is mostly right. Left out was that Obuma has also done more to reduce the wealth of the American "middle class" and wealth mobility than any President I can recall. One of the most egrecious and almost totally ignored is the lowering of wealth creation by the 30 hour full time work week mandate.

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

The problem with socialism is that more poor people are created, while the big money goes to a handful of masterminds.

colliemum
colliemum

It is clear that the GOP leadership has lost the plot. Louie Gohmert has pointed to it, and sadly Mr Dobbs doesn't get it, that it's not about making nicey-nicey with the Senate and Obama.

But the GOP leadership, if they do push this through, are doing far worse.

Read this analysis by Mike Flynn - and get angry, get kicking your Congress critters:

"GOP 'SUSPENDS' CONSTITUTION IN DEBT FIGHT"

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/22/GOP-suspends-constitution-in-debt-fight

tshtsh
tshtsh

I thought Lou Dobbs was just playing the DEVIL's advocate cannot tell these days with so many people that can lie with a straight face.

colliemum
colliemum

Yes, especially meejah people are very good at it, and many try hard to get a gotcha quote from their interviewee.

Not saying that Mr Dobbs was doing that ...

stage9
stage9

Exactly. This is why I can't watch Greta. She still believes it's the lack of "kiss and make up" that is impeding progress.

I mean it's a matter of numbers.

In the current climate, the Senate and the Presidency are controlled by liberals. The House is controlled by Republicans.

HOW IN GOD'S NAME is ANYTHING going to pass into law if the Senate and the President kill/veto everything Republicans submit?

It's impossible! The only thing the House can do is delay, de-fund or surrender. That's really all they have.

librtifirst
librtifirst

Seems to me like bowing out of this whole process is not a bad idea. Don't vote for any of it, if it is not real. Take a Ron Paul stand. Shut down the government if that is what it takes. We are past the point of no return, so what is the difference?

Orangeone
Orangeone

The Repubs aren't shutting the gov't down like they need to, they are giving Barky a credit card with an escalating interest rate and no credit limit

librtifirst
librtifirst

The pubs are already being set up to lose in 2014, so why not just not give in to Obama's threats? Let Obama fail to send out SS checks, then tell everyone that he has the money but didn't send them out on his own. Let Obama cut military services. The liberals in the military would probably turn away from his regime.

Since I believe that austerity and huge debt spending was planned long ago, I don't actually think that the pub leadership ever planned to resist. Republicans need to leave Boehner in the dust and just do what they want. Vote no on everything until they get something good.

warpmine
warpmine

Problem being just not enough that recognize this is the only way to shrink government.

notsofastthere
notsofastthere

Congress spends the money first, then confiscates the peoples money to pay the bills. Get rid of foreign aid, the EPA, Dept. Of Education etc., cut down on Obama's vacations and Michelle's staff. Raise the poor to middle class by opening jobs in the energy field, and stop shutting down coal plants. Didn't Obama by Executive Order just give federal employees a raise?

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

BREAKING - Nebraska's governor approves revised route for Keystone XL pipeline that would connect Canadian oil sands to refineries in Texas - @AP

Wanna bet?

President Green Algae Solyndra OPEC will do anything try to stop it in order to please his anti-American backers and continue the downward spiral of the US Economy.

Joe
Joe

It is all about CONTROL of the SHEEPLES!

Rshill7
Rshill7

"...jousting with windmills."

The Government is just as deluded as Don Quixote but not nearly as likable. Dulcinea would spit in it's eye. So would eye, I mean, I.

sDee
sDee

Expose them for what they are Louie. Use the language of the left. We will rise up, and when we do, some who willingly gave up their freedom to the ruling class will awaken and join us - some will not.

Ian Holm
Ian Holm

No Gohmert, YOU'RE bankrupting the nation!

Randi Starr
Randi Starr

I just bet you haven't every had a balanced checking account.