Rep Gohmert Likens Obama to Alcoholic for ‘Admitting’ Dems Are the ‘Party of No’

GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert said President Barack Obama‘s admission that he relied on Harry Reid to block unfavorable legislation from the Republican-led House means that, “like an alcoholic,” the president finally admitted he has a problem: that the Democratic Party is actually the “party of no.”

In a recent interview with NPR, Obama said legislation he did not like was “typically blocked in the Senate,” and once the GOP takes control of the Senate in January he will have to dust off that veto pen. Gohmert saw this as an admission that the Democrats are actually the “party of no.”

“What I’m excited about is after all these years, Trace, now the president has finally admitted they’ve been lying — he, Harry Reid, all those folks who have been saying Republicans were the ‘party of no,’ he’s basically admitted in this statement, ‘yeah, we’ve been the party of no, but I’ve been able to rely on Harry Reid to say no so I didn’t have to, but we’ve been the ones that really stopped it,'” Gohmert told Trace Gallagher. “That’s what I’m hearing in that statement, and I’m glad the president’s finally admitted, like an alcoholic, the best news is when you finally admit where your problem is.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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