Obviously, Gohmert is the epitome of a Very Serious Person ™, thus he shall be invited to appear on any number of Very Serious ™ shows and interviews, and we must treat his every pronouncement as Very Serious ™.

We must immediately forbid pregnant foreigners from boarding flights to America. The risk is just too great.

I hope the FBI has figured out which flight he was on and thoroughly examined the passenger list.

Congressman Gohmert (Pile - D.U.M.B.).
And maybe years ago, a family came into the US, and after several generations got lucky enough and got what it wanted - a child idiotic enough to be elected as a Congressman from Texas.
This Congressman worked hard to surpass Bachmann, Pence, and others to be the Washington DC Village Idiot.
The jury is still out...
I hope the family is proud.

Yet, he has no concerns about parents coming here on work permits and having their baby born in the US of A. Yes, Michelle Malkin has done a great deal of "ruining our way of life".

It is a good day when Michelle Malkin is offered as an insight into the effects of speaking out of both sides of your mouth . For further study please examine the undisguised consequence of a permanent state of rage .

Gomer is flying to the Middle East with peole who have relatives that are Hamas? Is this normal travel accomodations for republicans?

I want to apologize on behalf of all of Texas for this moron.

I suppose he's noticed the large number of people of Pakistani heritage working as software engineers, and I suppose he's decided that they're going to destroy our way of life by developing really superior, addictive videogames.

Excuse me, but what middle-Eastern woman would reveal to an American passenger that someone in her family was a member of Hamas? People will make up the most ridiculous stories. Years ago I knew a salesman who failed to have the paperwork he was supposed to have for his District Mgr. His excuse? A tornado hit his car (and only his car) and took all the paperwork way. Needless to say, this guy lost his job. Too damn bad the Texan idiot doesn't lose his.

Perhaps all of the "Aggie" jokes in Texas will be changed to "Gomert" jokes, as he has become the classic Aggie joke and he was, once, Captain of the Corps of Cadets at A&M.

The reason I mentioned Malkin, above, is due to her ranting about changing this constitutional provision, as well.

Just recently I had a conversation with a young girl on a plane ride from Dallas to Chicago and she told me that Rep. Gomer,I mean Gohmert,regularly met with her father who was a grand dragon of the KKK. She said that they often spoke of overthrowing the US govt and reinstituting slavery.

Maybe she was the wife of the "cab drivers" who give NYT columnists so much critical information on current affairs.

On the other hand, there may be some grain of truth in the story - I could easily see some American woman, amused/annoyed that the idiot sitting next to her thinks she's from the Middle East, making up some Bush-stuff to mess with his little pea brain...

So are you saying these dual citizenship kids WON'T be prime recruitment targets for terrorists?

More excellent redirection by agent Gohmert, designed to make people overlook the diabolical conspiracy started in the 50s, a conspiracy of which he, himself, is the product.

Wild stories about Middle Eastern women on planes will certainly keep people from realizing how, decades ago, anti-American forces committed themselves to birthing a new generation of mind-bogglingly stupid racist bigots, morons in every way but equipped with the skills to game the electoral system and gain power, allowing them to destroy America's preeminent position in the world by making us all stupider and stupider, every day.

Rep. Gohmert clearly has no idea that most airlines forbid pregnant women from flying in their third trimester, especially close to their due dates. So his story is even more stupid than it first looks.

I have had it with these motherf**king ladies on these motherf**king planes!

Sorry... someone had to do it.

Gohmert's idiocy is also based on the assumption that 25 years from now, the same terrorist groups that hate the U.S. now will still be around and planning attacks on the U.S. then.

Doesn't he think that in 25 years we will either significantly reduce the ability of these groups to carry out terrorist attacks, or else that changes in the Middle East or in U.S. policy might not at least have led them to redirect their energies?

Or is he assuming and even planning on the "War on Terror" being a permanent condition?

Maybe Gohmert just recently read the "Joys of Arab Women" email and thinks he has struck gold.

Hold on a second. Are these terrorist babies the ones who are decapitating Americans in Arizona? Devious. First they suck you in with their gurgling cuteness and then, WHAM, here comes the machete.

Josef: your comment at 12:18pm absolutely had me falling off my chair! Well done!

Excuse me, but what middle-Eastern woman would reveal to an American passenger that someone in her family was a member of Hamas?

The same one, apparently, who would discuss her daughter's pregnancy with a total stranger.

Well, hey, if a Kenyan college student can marry a Kansas radical feminist in Hawaii, knock her up and get her to Kenya to have his son, give him an obviously Muslim name, get back to Hawaii without anyone noticing that they were gone, make it look like the kid was born in Honolulu, and have that kid grow up to be the first African-American President of the United States, anything's possible, right?

Does it seem like way too many Texas politicians suffer from some mind destroying chemical brain damage? It's almost like they have been exposed to huge doses of pesticides.

OMG! Tom DeLay smuggled children into the US and exposed them to pesticides to destroy their ability to think and reason. They only spout idiocy and are trying to take over the USA.

Btw, being pregnant is not a bar from entering the U.S. but intent to immigrate is, and according to what I have been reading, most immigrations officers and consular officials will deny entry to women who have previously given birth while in the U.S.

So, again, Gohmert's annecdote is doubtful at best.

There. Now I have started an Internet rumor that will appeal to the Republican base. It has no basis in fact and makes enormous leaps in logic to blame someone for the premise.

Gohmert is absolutely right. Didn't we just catch 11 of those "terrorist babies", now grown up and breeding a new crop of apparent American citizens? 40 yrs and more down the road, and they're still working for Soviet Union...

And why was Gohmert' traveling with Hamas family members? Has he been 'turned', as Moscow Centre would call an enemy who has been coerced into becoming an asset.

Didn't a certain Egyptian leader require the firstborn children of foreigners in his country be slaughtered?

Will that be part of the Next Contract on Freedom pushed forth by the GOBP?

Gohmert's goal is to change the 14th amendment. The far right does not like the fact that being born here makes one a citizen. And, mock Gohmert if you will, but the use of unreasonable fear of terrorists has been a useful tool in driving much of the right wing political program. In this case the goal is cheap guest workers without rights and citizenship for their children.

Well, in 1907, my grandmother was born on Ellis Island, and as a new citizen, she helped my great-gma enter the country, and her father smuggled himself in (illegally) and so I think Louie was probably right. After all, this baby citizen grew up to work all her life to raise two children who became scientists, and then she had 15 grandchildren, not one of whom ever even set foot in the Old Country.

Scary lady, my grandma.

Many, many of us, if not most, are descended from "illegal aliens". (Okay, if you're Native American, you're okay.) I am always amazed at the blinkerness of Republicans who seem to have so little recognition of the great gifts the non-native people have given to this country, not the least of which are generations of citizens. We used to think being American was a good thing for most everyone, not just Gohmert's chosen few.

... it's all but certain Congress will debate this in earnest in 2011 if Republicans retake the majority.

They're already running in large part on immigration, & will not implausibly claim a strong mandate for measures that many of us have been reluctant until now to think are possible. (Their slogans - "just enforce existing law" & "attrition through enforcement" - in effect call for forced population transfer on a scale not seen in the West since the Red Army swept through Central Europe.)

The House Judiciary Committee will fall entirely in the the hands of nativist zealots. The current Ranking Member & prospective Chairman is Lamar Smith of TX, a hardline former chairman of its Immigration Subcommittee. Gohmert (also of TX), amazingly, will chair its Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, & Homeland Security. Jim Sensenbrenner, who as full Committee chairman 2001-07 was perhaps the worst enemy of immigrants on the Hill, will become chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. Steve King will become chairman of the Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security & International Law; he would be the least fit chairman in the Subcommittee's 65-year history, worse by far than Francis E. Walter.

King, of course, has been another vocal enemy of birthright citizenship.* Last month he met in Arizona w/ Russell Pearce, the sponsor of SB 1070, who currently is working on the issue at the state level. Both King & Pearce have said they're continuing to work together on the issue. (Here as before, Pearce reflects the thinking of the FAIR lawyers, who want a state law denying birth certificates to US-born babies of illegal-immigrant parents. The idea is to draw the federal government into court, & hope the Supreme Court will overturn the long-held view that the 14th Amendment applies.)

[Note that King himself is only a couple of generations removed from immigrant penury. His grandfather was a birthight-citizen son of immigrants, a migrant farm worker, & left-wing radical. At the time of his death in a Sioux City charity ward, he was Iowa State Organizer for the Communist-front Workers' Alliance of America. Rep. King's parents were saved from similar lives of rural proletarian squalor (if not, on the evidence of their son, from the idiocy of rural life) by robust government intervention.]

* Minor semantic complaint: these people aren't against all forms of birthright citizenship. Their own children will continue to be citizens by right of birth to citizens, no matter where they're born. One could live one's entire life outside the US, never even have heard of it, & still be a citizen. This is a more hereditary concept of citizenship, & accords more with a hereditary - biological - idea of nationalism.

So here's my guess. These terrorist cells will smuggle pregnant women into the U.S. and spend the next 18 years indoctrinating their offspring in the Jihad tradition. Then in the tradition of unruly and disobedient American teenagers, the children will become Presbyterian CPA's who live in nice suburbs. They'll all drive Toyota sedans, play golf, take their vacations in Florida and will be valued members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. "Ismi Darrin."

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