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i'm looking at you guys louie gohmert rick santorum especially rick santorum the republican party has won the election after election over the past few decades by taking this sort of belief and making them campaign winning wedge issues but while people like george w. bush and newt gingrich talk the talk about being pro-life an anti-gay at its core the republican party could care less about social conservatives that's because at its core the republican party is really just the party of the billionaire class everyone else is just along for the ride and that is the subject of tonight's daily take. if you think that republicans really care about every embryo turn into a living breathing baby nine months later then you've been fooled by the republican party the investigations by the website r.h. reality check and politico have found that the koch their puss aka charles and david koch have spent tens of millions of dollars from their personal fortune to fund the anti choicer forced birth movement according to our age reality checks adele's stan tax documents show that the koch to puss direc

upcoming texas congressman louie gohmert is here to sort it out. thanks for joining us. >> great to be here. >> for years the senate has required not just a simple majority but simple majority in order to stop a filibuster. >> cloture, yes. >> that sounds like a technical rule but, actually, it makes a big difference. this new change will make it very easy to get obama's judges through? >> if they had done away with the requirement for cloture, there would have been a lot more republican appointees that got through. so, just when you thought they couldn't get any more hypocritical. there could be no more lies than what have been said about obamacare, these guys forget there is video of them saying over and over you can't do away with cloture. you can't change this. it's too important. it's been around too lock. it's what gives us collegial ity in the senate. one of those things as infuriating as it is so they can replace somebody that should have been a replacement for john roberts for heaven's sake that bush appointed replacement. they wouldn't le

anyway, it seems to me the next time somebody interviews one of the usual suspects like louie gohmertr whoever else criticizing the president's plan, the next question should be a simple one word. so? so? what do you want to do? it's usually the question you ask. anyway, bill clinton the former president explained the self-inflicted wounds the republican states have given themselves as you pointed out due to their mission to see the affordable care act fail. here's the former president. >> a lot of the states with republican governors are not taking the medicaid money. and let me explain that to people watching this. the states that didn't participate, you're going to have this bizarre circumstance where everybody that didn't have insurance with an income between 133 of the level, hit will be cheaper than anything else they could have gotten. the prices are lower than estimated, not higher. they're going to be fine. but the other people are not. so they'll have to go to the emergency rooms. and because they're not carrying money with them, the emergency rooms will be giving uncompensa

how about chris christie and louie gohmert. what do you think? that's a ticket. >> yeah.'d like to ticket, wouldn't you? >> i would love that one. that would be colorful. a colorful ticket. we'd cover it well. >> you know what? we really don't know who's going to be elected. i know in 2007 we were all talking about at least on the morning show about the matchup between rudy giuliani and hillary clinton. we're not going to know for a very long time. here's the one thing i do know. if republicans are going to win in 2016, it's going to require them to unite the party the way reagan did. what does that mean? that means we're going to need a nominee that both ted cruz and colin powell can both support. that nominee is out there somewhere. we've got to find his or her. and when we do, we'll have a great shot of taking back the white house for the first time in eight years. >> it's great having you on joe scarborough. you are my doppelganger. >> thank you so much. >> the book's called "the right path." i'm holding it up. that's what you do. this is how republicans can win. if t

this week louie gohmert has said he thinks the law creates some sort of private army for the presidentprovides in obama care that this commission and non-commission non-commissioned officer corps will be trained. are they using weapons to train or being taught to use syringes? >> an obama care officer corps armed with syringes. sounds scary. but that's not all. michele bachmann believes the law creates a secret data base the irs will use to deny you health care. >> there's a huge and national data base that's being created right now. the irs is in charge of that data base, so they will have the potential we will they, to deny health care. >> and rand paul, his word that doctors will take away your guns. >> having democracy informing on their patients whether or not they have guns. i believe the time will come that this will be misused. >> these conspiracies come from this year. 2013. republicans will continue pushing lie after lie to stop and try this law. cause they have no alternative. and that goes for president obama's entire agenda. they have no alternatives. republicans are for n

care hysteria, there are a lot of examples, but this comment from the illustrious congressman, louie gohmerts the cake. astoni astonishing. the affordable care act provides funding for a few doctors and health care workers to help out in times of national emergencies. gohmert sees something sinister here. please try to explain this. listen to this. it's number one forever on our countdown. what is this guy talking about? >> it provides in obama care that this commission and noncommission officer corps will be trained, but i want to know, are they using weapons to train, or are they being taught to use syringes and health care items? >> joan, what did this army of people bearing syringes doing -- what are they calling -- the -- putting syringes up over their shoulder? what are we talking about? what fear zone is he working here? an army of people like invasion of the body snatchers going around inoculating people with detect panel juice or whatever the hell it is? >> we have also got a theme here in that we have got three guys, stockman and farntold and gohmert from texas which makes me worry

louie gohmert we can put the words in your mouth on your own, good to see you, sir, what is next?st of all, thanks for the unenviable position of following charles krauthammer. >> you're welcome. >> but, well, there is a lot of: this president is turns out we now know was intentionally being deceptive. these were lives that were talked about, should we lie about it? should we not? and they did. and harris, i think it's now time, now that we're seeing cracks in the democratic dam, they are realizing what a disaster obamacare is. just as those of us who read the bill before we voted against it knew. so, now is the time i think, harris, not only have we voted to repeal obamacare in the past, but now is the time to start doing what the president promised the american people, what they elected him to do. and that is to reform healthcare by having hearings where he said we'll do it on c-span, where the whole country can see who is in favor of what. that's what we ought to be doing now. >> how would you push that? what would you do to make that happen? >> we can start having those hearin

for example, texas congressman louie gohmert, his latest attempt to fear monger over this issue of obama listen to this. when you know adversely effected people are do you want them to suffer and potentially die? or do you do everything you can to put it off? >> see, that kind of extreme statement people potentially die, that is what makes people say well, the rollout may not be anything i want, but it's not that. obama care's not that. nowhere near that. >> and i thought the most incisive point the president made was he said everybody's acting as if the insurance market has been working for all these years. >> right. >> all of a sudden these $50 a month plan that have massive deductibles, that don't cover hospitalization all of a sudden now losing that could cost you your life? the president made a very good point which is -- he didn't make it too long. >> we'll have to hold it there. don't go anywhere. much more on this exclusive interview next. he does laundry, and i do the cleaning. there's only two of us... how much dirt can we manufacture? more than you think. very little. [ doorbe

anyway, it seems to me the next time somebody interviews one of the usual suspects like louie gohmertr whoever else criticizing the president's plan, the next question should be a simple one word. so? so? what do you want to do? it's usually the question you ask. anyway, bill clinton the former president explained the self-inflicted wounds the republican states have given themselves as you pointed out due to their mission to see the affordable care act fail. here's the former president. >> a lot of the states with republican governors are not taking the medicaid money. and let me explain that to people watching this. the states that didn't participate, you're going to have this bizarre circumstance where everybody that didn't have insurance with an income between 133 of the level, hit will be cheaper than anything else they could have gotten. the prices are lower than estimated, not higher. they're going to be fine. but the other people are not. so they'll have to go to the emergency rooms. and because they're not carrying money with them, the emergency rooms will be giving uncompensa

i expected it be like, i don't know, louie gohmert or michelle bachman, the ghost of jesse helms, but the actual speaker of the house, john boehner stepped up personally to make sure that that anti-gay group was well taken care of today at the united states capitol. your tax dollars at work. he's third in line to the presidency. fred phelps from the westboro baptist church didn't need to use the room at that time? john boehner also made news this week by repeating his insistence that he won't allow the employment discrimination act come up for a vote in the house. right now, legally, you can't discriminate in employment in the country on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, national origin, disability, or genetic formation. the bill that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of basises on which you cannot discriminate. right now in the majority of american states, if your boss hears that you're gay or decides that he or she thinks that you're gay, your boss can fire you on the spot for that reason and that reason alone. and you have norecourse, in a majorit

here is texas republican louie gohmert why he opposes and take a listen. >> it also means that christianl individuals, and it's kind of tough to teach biblical principles in romans 1 in a school if you are of a persuasion of being homosexual. >> now congressman, the religious exemption clause is fairly broad. so would it really force people to hire openly gay teachers, as we just heard? >> the law has been crafted, you know, very carefully to make sure that one, we're protecting people who are gay or lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, but also respect the first amendment rights of religious institutions. i think it's crafted in a way to pass the senate and our job then is to try to get it to pass the house, as well. but it's far past time and i think some of the rhetoric you'll hear from members will not be based on the law, but based on rhetoric. and that's all they're going to have. >> chris, as you write today in buzz feed, it has not had a vote in the senate since 1996. so how significant do you think -- do you think that is? >> well, i think that obviously oh, we have seen a sea chan

i'd like to hear from my friend, louie gohmert. mr. gohmert: i thank my friend from missouri for yielding and for setting up this time that we could share about what's going on and just in contrast to my friend from louisiana's examples of the abuses of military members' first amendment rights, the government is not supposed to prohibit the free exercise of religion, of course we know in the military, i knew that there are some things you give up when you're in the military you can't assemble when you want to, you can't speak when you want to, but commanders in chief have always known that when it came to religious liberty, you should not infringe upon people's religious beliefs especially when they believed they were fighting for a country where people could have first amendment rights to utilize and to worship god. and in fact, of course mitigating circumstance four years in the army, we didn't have a commander in chief that had issued an order attributed to george washington that people should not take the name of the lord in vain b

louie gohmert from texas district one. mr. gohmert: i thank my dear fellow alumnus of texas a&m.e do go way back knowing each other from undergraduate days. and i want to follow up, and i'm very grateful for my friend, mr. flores, taking this -- taking charge of this hour, setting it up, to talk about the i.r.s. and the abuses. and i know we've been talking about the abuses of tea party, conservative groups, pro-israel groups but i wanted to just touch on, briefly, the extent of the arrogance of the i.r.s.. they feel like they're above the law. lois lerner never showed any remorse for what certainly a appears to not only have been perjury but also to have been a crime. there's a specific criminal code provision dealing with abuses of the internal revenue office. and you have kathleen sebelius and right now, of course, people all over the country have lost millions or are losing their health insurance and there was this article here in october, this was from cns news. an interview with cnn's interviewer tuesday night, health and human services secretary, kathleen sebelius, said sh

broun has a bill, lue gome effort, others -- louie gohmert, others. there's an excellent health care bill that's market centered, it does something that i think is essential for the american health care system to survive as we know et and that is to maintain the physician-patient relationship. this will tear that down because what does it do? so many people are going to lose access to their doctor and as there are fewer and fewer doctors out there to see you, the waits are going to get longer and longer and longer. i think that is the very fabric that's made us the system that we are, the envy of the world, where people come from all over the world. i think that can cease. when you see great universities like vanderbilt university cutting down on the number of doctors they're educating because of these cost constraints and cutting down on the number of young doctors that are going to m.d.-ph.d. programs that go into medical research and faculties in medical school, 10, 15, 20 years from now we'll suffer a great price for this mistake we've made right