by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert has never been known for his raging intellect, and, in fact, he has often been seen as one of the major attractions in the GOP freak show that generates most of the bizarre stories coming out of Congress. But even if Gohmert is a certified nut, his antics should not be completely ignored because four years from now he might just be the new Secretary of the Interior, or Defense Secretary, or Attorney General in some rehash of the Trump administration.
Stranger things have happened.
Yesterday Gohmert made the news again when he was serving in his role as a member of the House Natural Resources Committee. He was questioning Jennifer Eberlien, an associate deputy chief of the Forest Service. It soon became apparent that Louie had an idea percolating in largely unused brain to address and solve the problem of climate change with a quick fix. His remarks and question to Ms. Eberlien were as follows:
"I understand, from what's been testified to the Forest Service and the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) you want very much to work on the issued of climate change. I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA (Jim Bridenstein, a former Oklahoma GOP congressman and climate change denier) that they've found that the moon's orbit is changing slightly and so is the Eath's orbit around the sun. We know there's been significant solar flare activity - and so, is there anything that the National Forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon's orbit or the Earth's orbit around the sun. Obviously that would have profound effects on our climate."
The exceedingly tactful Ms. Eberlien smiled and then told Gohmert that she would have to follow up with him at a later time on that question - presumably after some in-depth research in back issues of her agency's stash of comic books.
Fellow congressman, Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California headed straight to a superhero for the solution. He tweeted to Gohmert that Captain Marvel of Marvel Comics could handle the job because she has the ability to alter planetary orbits with her superpowers.
Problem solved.
Another big win for congressional bipartisanship!
(Go home and rest your brain for awhile, Louie. You're going to need all the smarts you can muster when President Donnie Trump, Junior puts you on the Supreme Court!)
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