{"id":273996,"date":"2013-08-19T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=273996"},"modified":"2013-08-20T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T16:19:20","slug":"gohmert-named-most-quotable-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=273996","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert Named Most Quotable Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=273997\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-273997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/thumb_louie-gohmert-31.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_louie-gohmert-3\" width=\"96\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-273997\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; Tyler&#8217;s own Louie Gohmert tops a list of most quotable congressmen in Washington.  The Capitol Hill newspaper &#8220;Roll Call&#8221; also puts Texans Ted Poe and Steve Stockman in the top 10 &#8212; Stockman at number 8, Poe at number 10.   Among the Gohmert quotes cited:  &#8220;We&#8217;re faced with a big threat.  What&#8217;s our response?  Are we gonna get tough and not let &#8217;em get away with it? No, we turn tail and run.&#8221;  From Stockman: &#8220;Stop having them intimidate you.   Stand up for our Constitution.  Fight for the Constitution!  Don&#8217;t back down!&#8221;   And Poe is quoted as saying, &#8220;The IRS wants to be exempted from Obamacare &#8212; and so do Americans.  And that&#8217;s just the way it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; Tyler&#8217;s own Louie Gohmert tops a list of most quotable congressmen in Washington. The Capitol Hill newspaper &#8220;Roll Call&#8221; also puts Texans Ted Poe and Steve Stockman in the top 10 &#8212; Stockman at number 8, Poe at number 10. Among the Gohmert quotes cited: &#8220;We&#8217;re faced with a big threat. What&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=273996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert Named Most Quotable Congressman<\/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-273996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 06:50:43","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\/273996","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=273996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273998,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273996\/revisions\/273998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}