Representative thinks oil pipeline will help caribou get laid

[Emit]

You just can't make this stuff up ...

Foolish enviros might think that oil pipelines are bad for wildlife, what with the habitat-destroying and whatnot. But Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert (Texas) is an expert on ungulate romance (...)

Here’s his theory: The caribou very much enjoy the warmth the pipeline radiates. “So when they want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline,” he informed his colleagues. (...) And that has resulted in a tenfold caribou population boom, he concluded.

Even Rep. Don Young (R), who loves oil pipelines like a caribou loves other caribou -- and who is actually from Alaska ... tried to walk this one back, saying "I’m not sure it’s warmth of the pipeline." But Gohmert could not be moved.

http://grist.org/list/#item-congressman-thinks-oil-pipelin-will-help-caribou-get-laid

[Angry Dragon]

1. Perhaps that is how Gohmert finds caribou to mate with

[Politicalboi]

2. OMG!

Man Deer!

[geardaddy]

3. Didn't BS Bachman say this, too?

Do these people really think they're Marlin Perkins or David Attenborough?

[The Genealogist]

4. "when they want to go on a date..."

How old is this guy? Seven? Caribou going out on dates. Reminds me of when my sister was a girl of about seven. She came tearing into the house one day, screaming "There is a dog dating Vega!" Vega was our neighbor's dog. I had to have her repeat this a time or two just to figure out what words she was using. Finally, I went out, and saw another dog mounting Vega. I have no idea where she got that euphemism. So, in my mind, Gohmert sounds like an hysterical seven year old who knows nothing about sex.

[dembotoz]

5. would it work with women???? If so, can i get one in my backyard????

maybe in time for valentines day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[provis99]

6. Louie Gohmert just sounds like a moronic name.

I guess Dimmy McDumbass was already taken.