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Louie, Louie, take us where you gotta goLouie Gohmert is now a lame duck. We should clarify: that’s not to say he’s the type of bird he claims solar farms in California are maiming, but rather that he is retiring. Gohmert could have cruised to reelection this year, but he was tired of fighting the federal government from within, and he ran to fight it from without, losing a bid to be a Biden administration heel (Texas attorney general). Them’s the breaks.In the past, some politicians have treated the lame-duck period as an opportunity for reinvention—to push for all the things they secretly wanted without fear of electoral reprisal. Gohmert, to his credit, has never been afraid to share what he believes, so he’s treating…

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