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If anyone needed further proof that Sean Hannity's show on Fox "news" is a complete clown show, here you go. After complaining about House Speaker John Boehner stripping some of these "tea partiers" from their committee assignments and even the possibility of him negotiating with President Obama over this so-called "fiscal cliff," guest Mark Steyn called Rep. Louie Gohmert "one of the few serious people in Congress."

Louie Gohmert.... terror babies Louie Gohmert.

Here's more of the recent insanity that's come out of that man's mouth in case anyone's forgotten.

Rep. Gohmert: ‘Slavery was a blot’ but U.S. is worse off now

Gohmert: Contraception mandate is like banning communion

Gohmert to 'Numbnuts' McCain: Shut Up About Bachmann’s Anti-Muslim Witch Hunt

Louie Gohmert (R-TX): George W. Bush Did A Better Job in Afghanistan Than Obama

Rep. Louis Gohmert says Obama has more of an allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood than America

'Terror Babies' Gohmert: Libya Goal Is To "Deplete The Military" So Obama Can Call Up Private Army

Rachel Maddow: More Guns Does Not Equal Less Crime

'Terror Babies' Louie Gohmert Predicts Doom for America and the Military From Repeal of DADT

Update: The Huffington Post noted on Wednesday that Gohmert was the only member of Congress to vote against a bill that would have removed the term "lunatic" from all federal laws.

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Ed Schultz spoke to Rep. Keith Ellison about this House members, primarily freshmen, who met for something they called 'Conversations with Conservatives" and how they responded when asked the question "Are any of you excited to have Romney as the nominee?"

Dave Weigel has more on the meeting -- Mitthusiasm: House Conservative Edition:

"Well, first, we're excited about the opportunity to defeat Barack Obama, more than anything," said Rep. Jim Jordan, the shirtsleeved chairman of the Republican Study Committee. [...]

Rep. Louie Gohmert, the aggressively quotable former judge from Texas, basically conceced the point. "If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney," he joked, "whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another."

You could tell, in the room, that Gohmert had just created a "narrative" against Romney. Why, that was unfair. Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona reported on a meet-up with conservatives in his district last week: "They were literally handing out Romney bumper stickers in the room."

Gohmert returned to clean up his splatter. "So I'm not completely misunderstood," he said, "I'm not as excited as I am desperate."

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Looks like Rep. "Terror-babies" Louis Gohmert isn't done fearmongering, this time to an eighty some year old caller on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. When the caller asked him where her Social Security tax money had gone after what she's heard about potential cuts to the program, Gohmert lied and said "there's never been a dime of real money in the Social Security trust fund."

Well if that's true Mr. Gohmert, I'd like to know who else you think should be allowed to default on their debts besides the United States Treasury Department? The caller is right. All of us as taxpayers paid into that fund.

And after saying it's shameless that the trust fund somehow hasn't been protected, Gohmert goes on to reassure the caller that he's not going to screw her over with any changes to the system, just her children and grand children. He's actually got the gall to pretend here that Republicans care about keeping our social safety nets in place when their party has hated those programs and done their best to dismantle them since they first started.

If Rep. Gohmert actually believes that there "hasn't been a dime of real money" in that trust fund, then he's got some explaining to do to his constituents about why they're still allowing that money to come out of their paychecks every week.

Sorry Louie, but I would like the money you and your ilk borrowed against it paid back, as I would imagine everyone else who paid into the fund would as well. That surplus that's been borrowed against is only not "real money" unless you think it's acceptable for borrowers to default on their creditors without being thrown in prison.

That's the type of justice that of course is always inflicted on the poor and the powerless. If those in power decide they want to raid that fund, well, the rest of us are just supposed to get over it and pretend we never paid that money to the government in the first place. They needed it for their wars and to give tax breaks to the rich. A country's got to have its priorities, don't you know. In the Louie Gohmerts of the world's vision, that includes telling seniors and widows and orphans that we took your money and don't expect to get it back.

They'd rather any of us drop dead than upset their wealthy campaign donors.

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Rachel reports on how "Baby Killer!" Randy Neugebauer and We Don't Need No Stinkin' Elections for Senators Louis Gohmert are both now fundraising off of their outburts on the floor of the House. So I guess Texas Republicans find throwing temper tantrums on the House floor appealing. These two ain't got nothing on drama queen Boehner though.