ThinkProgress reporting, Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold demands satisfaction from Republican Senators who are refusing to repeal the Affordable Care Act–old school style:
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) is livid at the inability of the Senate to repeal Obamacare, and he knows exactly who to blame: the Republican women of the Senate.
During a radio interview on a Corpus Christi station last Friday, Farenthold said he finds it “absolutely repugnant” that “the Senate does not have the courage to do some of the things that every Republican in the Senate promised to do.”
Farenthold singled out female senators for opposing the repeal of Obamacare, before suggesting that if they were men, he’d ask them to settle things with a gunfight.
“Some of the people that are opposed to this [i.e., repealing Obamacare] — there are some female senators from the northeast,” Farenthold said. “If it was a guy from south Texas I might ask them to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr-style.”
TP corrects Rep. Farenthold on the geographic origin of the “female senators” in question–only one of them is from the northeastern United States, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. Last time we checked, the states of West Virginia (Sen. Shelly Moore-Capito) and Alaska (Sen. Lisa Murkowski) were not part of “the northeast.”
It’s okay though, we’re pretty sure geography is not what Farenthold was getting at.
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From the picture, I'm thinking that Murkowski, Collilns and Moore-Capito could take him easily if the struggle was mano a mano (I'm not good with Spanish … would the sexist approach be hombre contra mujer ??)
Any guess on the voter registration at this gathering?
The honorable (. . , hey, everything's relative to Trump these days) gentleman (. . . relative) from the great (. . . relative) State of Texas might want to reconsider his challenge . . .
. . . I'm guessing that Aaron Burr wasn't nearly the juicy target that this fat [d]uck makes?
Since the women in that photo appear to be of-age, I'd say it was a gathering of RINOs. In a gathering of true family-values Republicans, the arm candy would have been male, underage or both.
He's the one in the ducky pajamas
https://wonkette.com/569485/inconceivably-ducky-pajamas-wearing-texas-congressman-has-been-accused-of-sexual-harrassment
Ewww eww and ewwwww. I'm guessing Collins, Murkowski, and Capito have encountered more than their fair shares of this breed of right wing hypocritical sexist pigs.
They would know how to shut him down, and I wish them luck with it.
And why isn't he calling out those manly men – Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson – each of whom has also objected to one or more of the Senate bills (or discussion drafts, or talking points, or brain farts … whatever the hell you want to call them)?
Wait … he'll soon be lamenting passage of the 19th Amendment which made possible the election of these women.
Ahhh, if only people thought like Tim Neville and stuck with the company of men!
Fat boy needs to ease up on the dueling references. What if someone takes him up on it? He's be dead and gone long before he even gets started fishing his pistol from those gargantuan rolls of blubber.
Given his families 0-1 in the gangsta department and his less-than-Greek-God physique he might want to walk that comment back a step or two?
From his Wiki:
Personal life
In 1972, when Farenthold was ten years old, his father disappeared and was later found dead, his body having washed ashore after being weighed down with a cement block and deposited in Corpus Christi Bay. The gangland-style murder was the work of enemies of the elder Farenthold, who feared he would testify against a group of con artists who had tried to defraud him out of $100,000.
Lucius Brachi sleeps with the fishes.
Remember who Aaron Burr was, the first big shot who wanted to break up the nation and become ruler of the new and killed Hamilton.