{"id":173398,"date":"2012-03-21T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=173398"},"modified":"2012-03-22T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T20:08:28","slug":"gohmert-sounds-off-again-on-health-care-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=173398","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert Sounds Off Again on Health Care Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=173399\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-173399\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/03\/thumb_louie-gohmert-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_louie-gohmert-3\" width=\"96\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-173399\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON \u2014 Tyler&#8217;s Louie Gohmert is among members of Congress who joined a political activist in speaking out Wednesday against the federal health care plan.  Others on hand included Reps. Steve King (IA-05), Michele Bachmann (MN-06), Tom Price (GA-06), Joe Barton (TX-06), Phil Gingrey (GA-11), Paul Gosar (AZ-01) and Tea Party Patriots founder Jenny Beth Martin.  The group addressed what they termed &#8220;Obamacare\u2019s broken promises, new taxes, increased costs and expanded bureaucracy&#8221; in a Capitol Hill press conference.<\/p>\n<p>According to KETK, Rep. Gohmert delivered the following remarks:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Obama\u2019s health care bill was not a bill that needed to be passed. Simply stated, it allows any President to tread on the religious freedom expressly promised to us in the Constitution. It is my hope that liberal friends, across the country, who originally bought into the lies about how good this piece of legislation was going to be, will rise up and demand repeal upon realizing the power that this gives a President to trample on their favorite written and unwritten rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the President can overstep and tread on your First Amendment rights, then he can certainly overstep all kinds of other rights \u2014 all for the greatest good to the new federal health care system. This is such a devastating blow to our liberties for which so much has been sacrificed. As Dennis Miller said, \u2018If our original founders would go to war over a tax on their breakfast drink,&#8221; they would certainly never stand for this massive usurpation of people&#8217;s choices in how to live.\u2019  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ObamaCare was a situation where a minority of Americans dictated the life decisions to a large majority of Americans without their consent and, in fact, with their frequently stated opposition. Some want to nip around the edges and repeal small parts, but the entire monstrous cancer needs to be destroyed. Then, we can move on and get real health care reform that the people deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Tyler&#8217;s Louie Gohmert is among members of Congress who joined a political activist in speaking out Wednesday against the federal health care plan. Others on hand included Reps. Steve King (IA-05), Michele Bachmann (MN-06), Tom Price (GA-06), Joe Barton (TX-06), Phil Gingrey (GA-11), Paul Gosar (AZ-01) and Tea Party Patriots founder Jenny Beth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=173398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert Sounds Off Again on Health Care Plan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 16:50:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173398"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173764,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173398\/revisions\/173764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}