Sorry, This Ain’t No April Fool’s…

Synopsis: According to Congressman Louie Gohmert and his Texas-sized tinfoil hat, U.S. intervention in Libya is actually an Obama plot to tucker out our military, thereby enabling Obama to call up his health-care-reform stormtroopers to impose Shariah, or some other fantastical atrocity, on us all.

Nobody at S.C. Health Care Voices is calling the Affordable Care Act a perfect piece of legislation, but it would be nice to debate health care reform at an adult level, believing all sides have Americans’ best interests at heart.

Instead, from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, we’re getting this caliber of bunkum, motivated by Gohmert only knows…

Talking Points Memo has the full story below:

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By Brian Beutler | March 31, 2011, 2:46PM

Thanks to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), one of the most widely debunked, and far-out conspiracy theories about the health care law found its way into the Congressional Record late Wednesday — with a twist.

This comes via Political Correction — a project of Media Matters.

From Gohmert’s floor speech Wednesday night:

It’s a bad bill. And then when you find out that the prior Congress not only passed that 2,800 page bill with all kinds of things in it, including a new president’s commissioned officer corps and non-commissioned officer corps. Do we really need that? I wondered when I read that in the bill. But then when you find out we’re being sent to Libya to use our treasure and American lives there, maybe there’s intention to so deplete the military that we’re going to need that presidential reserve officer commissioned corps and non-commissioned corps that the president can call up on a moment’s notice involuntarily, according to the Obamacare bill.

If this rings a bell, maybe you’ve seen a chain email peddling the second half of this conspiracy theory. Some on the far-right believe the health care law creates a private army for President Obama to call up and train on U.S. citizens. What it really does is make good on a plan first envisioned by Bush HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson in the wake of the September 11 attack to create a Ready Reserve Corps of several thousand public health professionals — nurses, doctors — that can be called up to treat people in the wake of an epidemic or a disaster like Hurricane Katrina.

Gohmert gave credence to the theory on the House floor, with an addendum. The administration’s Libya operation is actually a false flag, to draw down the country’s military reserves, and give Obama the excuse he needs to call up his private army.

This is 9/11 truther-type stuff, on the House floor.