GOP Rep: Fight To Fix OCare Is Womens Fault, Could Be Solved With A Gun Duel

[demmiblue]

Source: TPM

A Republican House member thinks the GOP women of the Senate are to blame for Congress’ inability to address Obamacare.

Appearing on a Corpus Christi radio station Friday, Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) not only suggested that it was Republican women’s fault that the party is fractured on how to get rid of Obamacare, but also said if it was “a guy from south Texas” at the center of the disagreement, he might ask them to resolve their issues with a gun fight.

“The fact that the Senate does not have the courage to do some things that every Republican in the Senate promised to do is just absolutely repugnant to me. … Some of the people that are opposed to this, they’re some female senators from the Northeast,” he said, likely referring to Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, who has been vocal about her opposition to each of the Senate’s health plans from the start. She said over the weekend that she’s opposed to the delayed repeal bill.

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Farenthold suggested if it were a man from his state blocking the repeal bill, he might ask him to “step outside and settle this Aaron Burr style,” he said, referencing the famed gun duel between the former vice president and Alexander Hamilton, a former secretary of the Treasury who had longstanding political differences. The gun fight ended in Hamilton’s death.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-rep-fight-to-fix-ocare-is-womens-fault-could-be-solved-with-guns

[niyad]

1. blake boy, bachpfeifengesicht.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Oh, please! Show his REAL portrait.

[niyad]

6. DAMN!!!!!!! one should not view that on an empty stomach!!

[still_one]

29. You mean full stomach I think?

[3catwoman3]

38. Either way, nausea inducing...

...to the max. At least on an empty stomach, there wouldn't be anything to hurl.

[still_one]

43. good point

[demmiblue]

9. And there it is...

I knew DU wouldn't let me down!

[Hortensis]

47. And you came through yourself. I needed a laugh

about now and got several. Thanks!

[alfredo]

19. That guy can't score with his own hand

[niyad]

52. sooooo glad I wasn't drinking just then!!

[alfredo]

56. 😄

[smirkymonkey]

44. Gross!

[ResistantAmerican17]

13. That photo screams I'm a repressed

Douche bag of the first order!!!

[NickB79]

15. Hard target to miss in a gun fight

Big boy there might want to reconsider challenging anyone to a duel.

[niyad]

16. that is a most excellent point!

[alfredo]

23. If a person challenges you to a duel, you get the choice of weapons.

If the challenger is a Trumpite, choose writing an essay on the symbolism of the participants of the bull fight in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises." A community college TA will grade the papers.

[irisblue]

50. I know of a community college professor...

Dr Biden could do a fine job.

[alfredo]

51. Yes, and I could bet he read Hemingway as a young man.

It's like a sorbet between two semesters.

[Warpy]

31. Only with a baseball bat

or other implement. You'd get your fist stuck in all that flab.

I really wish fewer Texans were Morons for Jebus, maybe we could get rid of this fool and too many others just like him.

[Judi Lynn]

45. With, without glasses, straight, or curly hair... Which one of dese?

Fahrenhold, explaining creation.

[niyad]

53. dear goddess!!! I am so glad I haven't had anything to eat or drink this morning!!

[crazycatlady]

49. Does Chris Christie have a lovechild?

[shenmue]

2. Wow, what an asshole

[elehhhhna]

3. Blake fart hold is the stupidest fat fuck in the world besides Donald Trump

He actually looks more like HR puffin stuff then Sarah slanders does, which is saying a lot

[ResistantAmerican17]

4. Jesus Christ I Can't stand these Texas assholes

God-damn-Texas, with his own hand, brought down ignorance from the farthest land, gave us a state, where morons stand.....mmmmmm God damn Texas! I hang my head in shame that I live in this shit state.

[niyad]

7. welcome to du. I used to have a bumper sticker that read, "remember the alamo, give

texas back". never got shot, either.

there are so many good and wonderful liberals and progressives in that state. we pray for you all, daily, and thank you for your fortitude and determination.

[ResistantAmerican17]

12. By the old gods and the new we need

Your prayers desperately down here in repugnant Taliban land!!

[Paladin]

48. Oh for Chrissakes, shake it off and do something positive to make things better!

Quit your Goddamned whining. All you're doing is empowering the opposition. Think of yourself as a member of the French Resistance in WWII. Fight back---that's the only way things get better.

That rant is in memory of the late Sissy Farenthold, a shining light of Texas liberalism and a relative of Dipshit Pajama Boy Blake. Sissy never avoided a fight, and neither should you.

[hamsterjill]

8. We definitely have our share of assholes, don't we???!!!

Seems like it's alway Texas!

I join you in being ashamed. If I had the means to move, I would in a heart beat.

[Joediss]

33. Me too

Born and raised in this state , so ashamed of these people that I was raised around. Very disappointed in these morons here , I don't have no friends in this shit hole anymore. I am a Vietnam veteran and people on Facebook are calling Dems traitor to our country . Not that being a veteran makes me more patortic , than the next guy.... I just never thought that me belonging to one political party or the other makes me more patortic or less of an American than the next guy.

[ResistantAmerican17]

55. Your reply sickens me...... because I feel

Your misery!!!

[Cryptoad]

10. Kinda re-enforces the ole GOP point ,,,

that its "been all been down hill ever since we started letting women vote! "

[ResistantAmerican17]

11. I'm firming up my get the *uck out of Texas

Plans as we speak. Retirement eligible on March 17, 2021 but who's counting!!😂😂😂. And yes, with indignations like Lightweight Louie Ghomert we seem to breed a special brand of stupid in the Lone Star state.

[TexasTowelie]

14. Once again, I am ashamed that Jama Boy

is my Congressional representative.

It makes me wonder if I'm being punished for some reason.

[AllaN01Bear]

17. jaumpin jehosaphat where do the dumb bunnies git this shit?

[lark]

18. Repugs just love their killing and violent moments.

Total misogyny. He's mad because the women don't want millions of people to lose their healthcare, and that's what Repugs agreed to do! They have to steal all the money, give it to the rich, and let the poor and elderly just die while they lie about it and somehow make it about Dems, because they didn't stop us, so obviously own this killing bill.

[Hekate]

20. Gabby. Giffords. Loose talk about shooting opponents "if only they were not women" leads to ...

...female opponents getting shot anyway. What monumental murderous *holes Farenthold and his ilk are.

[skypilot]

21. Yeah, he looks and sounds real quick on the draw.

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[Judi Lynn]

57. He would have the disadvantage in a duel because he would be so darned hard to miss. n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. I would never have bet that Rep. Ducky PJs knew who Aaron Burr was.

I'm impressed and distressed all at once.

[LakeArenal]

24. Is this guy 12 or 220 years old?

Duels.. I guess he must be 220 since he thinks the women folk are pretty uppity.

[Gothmog]

25. Ducky Pajama Boy (Blake Farenthold) is an idiot

[Gothmog]

26. Fun With Guns: Ducky Boy Challenges Female Senators Edition

From Juanita Jean http://juanitajean.com/fun-with-guns-ducky-boy-challenges-female-senators-edition/

[Doug the Dem]

27. Blake, you have inadvertantly Shown Us The Light

I call first dibs on McConnell! Being the Kentuckian he is, how could he refuse the challenge?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. This guy is a real piece of work - even aside from the ducky pajamas.

So, just who is this Rep. Blake Farenthold, the Texas Republican who’s been accused by a staffer he fired of creating a hostile work environment? In her lawsuit, the former aide claimed Farenthold “regularly drank to excess” and told a co-worker he’d had “sexual fantasies” about her.

In the news: Farenthold most recently garnered attention when Buzfeed reported this week that he was the owner of the naughty-sounding domain name blow-me.org, which his spokesman said was a result of routine buying of names when he was a computer consultant. When he first ran for Congress, photos surfaced of Farenthold wearing duck-printed pajamas and posing with scantily clad lingerie models.

The suit: The lawsuit alleges that the Texas Republican’s staffers joked that they needed to go on “red head patrol” to make sure the boss behaved himself when he drank heavily at “Capitol Hill functions.” Farenthold was “awkward” around her, the aide, Lauren Greene, says, and ” regularly made comments designed to gauge whether [she] was interested in a sexual relationship.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2014/12/17/who-is-rep-blake-farenthold-the-congressman-being-sued-by-a-former-aide/?utm_term=.c7b05ea72ab3

[3catwoman3]

39. "...to gauge whether she was interested in a sexual relationship."

He is severely delusional. He is also a very persuasive argument for celibacy.

My answer would have been, "Not now. NOT EVER!!!

[BigmanPigman]

30. If a Dem woman said that about Repub men she would face

such huge, negative feedback from the GOP, Fox Ruse, alt-right groups, etc. Hypocrites!

The GOP gun toting, violence promoting, keep women barefoot and pregnant attitude for most of my life has hit a breaking point for many. After fighting for decades it's still 1 step forward, 2 steps back. I hope others get as pissed off as I am. A giant march and electing more women is not even close to what needs to happen for real, permanent change.

[turbinetree]

32. $174,000 a year, Texas, that's how much you pay a pin head

to "REPRESENT" YOU, with his words of wisdom.

he is your ass****

Hey zippy the pin head did you or did you not vote to EXEMPT yourself from the health care debacle death panel legislation you sent over to the senate, that august chamber of republican death panel ass****?

What a f*cking man, a spineless dirt bag

[ananda]

34. Is there something in the Texas water ..

.. that makes our reps and our governor batshit stoopid crazy?

[Jopin Klobe]

35. Well, well, this so-called Human family has already had a shoot-out ...

... only it appears that it's the female that has the cojones ...

"Sister of Texas Congressman arrested after SWAT team raids her house and finds methamphetamine and guns"

"A SWAT team arrested the sister of a Texas Congressman on drug charges after raiding her home following a standoff with armed officers. "

"Police say they found methamphetamine and guns inside the Corpus Christie home of Sue Farenthold -- who was charged along with three accomplices, one of whom is a known gang member."
[link:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168460/Sister-Texas-Rep-Blake-Farenthold-arrested-SWAT-raid-finds-meth.html|]

... whatta great gene pool, hunh? ...

[maxrandb]

36. But...but...but...but

We should try to reach out to the people that sent this moron to Congress

[TheMastersNemesis]

37. I WOULD AIM AND FIRE BEFORE THE PRICK TURNED AROUND AT TWO PACES.

[SonofDonald]

40. Fart n hold

Ok, you want a duel, put two guns on the end of a US Marines obstacle course, you have to complete the course to pick up a gun, no go arounds, no cheating and no help period.

You'll lose Fatboy, Bigly.....

Btw, he sure looks like Jason Chaffetz with an extra hundred pounds of cheese on his bones, doesn't he?.

Love the pic with the hooker, yup, he's congressional material alright.

[Kablooie]

41. I heartily support gun duels between Republicans. It would please their NRA overlords as well.

[TeapotInATempest]

42. So he's saying he'd commit a crime?

Considering dueling's been illegal since the 19th century...

Perhaps he's actually forgotten what century we live in (along with the rest of the GOP)?

[flibbitygiblets]

46. Damn women and their ladyparts! What do they know about healthcare?

[haele]

54. Apparently, Senator Joe Manchin just offered to step outside with him.

Probably to get some leverage with or provide cover for fellow Senator Capito to try and work on her to keep her no vote secure. Patronizing on his part, but probably will go over well with his constituency.
And amusing to visualize if it actually did happen.
I really don't see Farenthold being brave enough to actually step out with Manchin to "discuss this like men".
Mister Blake Ducky Pajamas who posts selfies with "fast ladies" stepping out with a good ol' boy from the mountains?

Haele