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httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dorCLFVpzyo<\/p>\n

Gohmert’s Pile: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R – Texas) on the floor of the House of Representatives explaining the danger of “terror babies.”\u00a0 That’s right. <\/em> Muslim. Terror. Babies.
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A month ago it was Rep. Joe Burton (R – Texas) apologizing to BP CEO Tony Hayward for the alleged “shakedown” his company received from the White House.\u00a0 Or – more accurately – a negotiated fund to be held in trust to compensate those who have lost their livelihood by way of a massive oil leak from a BP deep drilling site that has destroyed the Gulf fishing industry.\u00a0 Corporations, after all, according to people like Barton, are not to be held accountable <\/em>for their behavior.\u00a0 That’s only for suckers who actually pay taxes at a rate commensurate with income but can expect either non-existent or inadequate social services in return.\u00a0 Nausea-inducing video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago it was Rep. Kevin Brady (R – Texas) declaring that the 9\/11 heroes who ran into burning buildings and then dug through the toxic rubble at ground zero looking for survivors, did so to save lives, not to raise the taxes required to fund their subsequent chronic illnesses<\/em>. “<\/em>You’re an asshole!” <\/em>explained Jon Stewart. Video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This past week it’s been “terror babies,” offered in a kind of Dadaist display of extra crunchy nuttiness by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R – Texas).\u00a0 That term, once again, ladies and gentlemen, is terror babies<\/em>.\u00a0 Here’s how it (cough) “works”: Muslim women “drop and leave” an “anchor baby” (still more made up terminology provided by Republicans and then hysterically disseminated by Fox News) who qualifies as an American citizen so that he can grow up to become a suicide bomber 15 or 20 years hence. No, you do not misunderstand.\u00a0 That’s really what he means.<\/p>\n

After the jump, a much more plausible source of domestic terror.<\/p>\n

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Fembots!!<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WtTNkL3q12Q<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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