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kpete

(72,018 posts)
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 10:51 AM Jan 2013

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) Insults Nancy Pelosi's Appearance ‘There’s No Facelift With John Boehner’

Republican Congressman Insults Nancy Pelosi’s Appearance: ‘There’s No Facelift With John Boehner’
By Scott Keyes on Jan 5, 2013 at 8:30 am

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)

An outspoken Republican congressman castigated House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s looks during a radio interview Friday.

Speaking with guest host Larry O’Connor on the Dennis Miller Show, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) argued that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was functionally equivalent to Pelosi because both held one-on-one backroom negotiations with the president. Gohmert then went on to deride Pelosi’s appearance: “Well, let’s give him credit. There’s no facelift with John Boehner.”

O’CONNOR: So basically John Boehner became Nancy Pelosi without the charm?

GOHMERT: For the last two years. Well, let’s give him credit. There’s no facelift with John Boehner. He is who he is.

O’CONNOR: Oh!


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/05/1399331/gohmert-pelosi-facelift/
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Mass

(27,315 posts)
1. That is Gohmert - Always classy.
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 10:53 AM
Jan 2013

We will miss Rep. West for his attacks on Debbie Wasserman, but Gohmert will fill the void. (I got confused, Joe Walsh's attacks were on Tammy Duckworth. Kind of a pattern).

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
5. I can remember when we had statesmanship in our political leaders
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 11:01 AM
Jan 2013

Now they talk and act like they're in junior high.

zazen

(2,978 posts)
7. and they'd castigate her just as much if she didn't have plastic surgery
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 11:30 AM
Jan 2013

I remember Rush saying how awful the prospect of a Hilary Clinton presidency would be because Americans wouldn't want to watch a woman in her 60s aging.

So many people mock women who have plastic surgery but it can be a career show stopper if you don't get it. It's like mocking 19th c women for wearing corsets or the 18th c Chinese mothers for footbinding. It's strategic for these partakers of endless male privilege to get women to be the agents of our own oppression. It's the equivalent of forcing the rape victim to say she likes it.

lindysalsagal

(20,733 posts)
8. As far as I know, Speaker Pelosi isn't the public crier, here. Big girls don't cry.
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 11:31 AM
Jan 2013

Unless they're called John Boehner.

Arkansas Granny

(31,532 posts)
10. I've often said that if Nancy Pelosi had shed as many tears
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 11:42 AM
Jan 2013

in public as John Boehner has, she would have been attacked as being emotionally unfit to hold the position as Speaker.

hehe. I just noticed that autocorrect had changed Boehner to Nowhere. That sounds about right.

GoCubsGo

(32,094 posts)
11. That's because Boehner is beyond help.
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 11:48 AM
Jan 2013

As is Gohmert, who looks and behaves like the pile of excrement he is.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
14. She pays her doctor bills and seldom criticizes others' appearances
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 11:57 AM
Jan 2013

I think, in fact, never. Gohmert should concentrate on doing the peoples' business instead of studying the females in the Congress.

Like what you see, Gohmert? Is this maybe jealousy? Wish you were a girl?
Wish your wife if you have one would have one?

Poor man.

Paladin

(28,273 posts)
15. AND ON THAT SAME SHOW: Louie Sez Hammers And Machetes Are "Assault Weapons."
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 12:06 PM
Jan 2013

Hey, you can't make this shit up. Louie has an "A" rating from the NRA, by the way.....
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