July 24, 2017 12:39 PM UTC

At Least He's Not Your Congressman (Pistol Packin' Mama Edition)

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• by: Colorado Pols

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.