Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to modernize archaic legal language by . The measure passed resoundingly, with only one vote against: conservative East Texas .
Former Austin scribe Jennifer Bendery that while Gohmert鈥檚 office didn鈥檛 expand upon the representative鈥檚 vote, his words in the House chamber provided some context:
"To keep spending and not pay the price, that is immoral," Gohmert said. "That's why we shouldn't eliminate the word 'lunatic.' It really has application around this town. 鈥� We want to eliminate the word 'lunatic' from the federal code?" Gohmert asked. "That's lunacy."
It鈥檚 not Gohmert鈥檚 first run in with questionable definitions: The five term representative set off a firestorm in 2010 with remarks positing the specter of 鈥渢error babies,鈥� or terrorists illegally entering the U.S. and birthing so-called 鈥溾�� to secure an American base for their fiendish plots. Gohmert鈥檚 remarks lead to on Anderson Cooper鈥檚 CNN program, seen below.
