Overheard: Eric Holder Goes Veggie on Louie Gohmert

By Jason Dick

Posted April 9, 2014 at 1:08pm

“Good luck with your asparagus.”

— Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., directing his ire on Tuesday at Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas . Last year, in another testy exchange between the two, Gohmert said, “The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.”

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