{"id":23347,"date":"2017-07-25T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23347"},"modified":"2017-07-25T15:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T15:00:58","slug":"shut-up-rep-farenthold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23347","title":{"rendered":"Shut up, Rep. Farenthold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I don’t feel like being genteel with this blog post.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold needs to shut his overworked pie hole. Period!<\/p>\n

The Texas Republican lawmaker told a Corpus Christi radio host that if three female GOP senators who oppose the pending Trumpcare health insurance bill awaiting a vote in the Senate were men, he’d call ’em outside and settle it “Aaron Burr style.” He’d challenge them to a duel.<\/p>\n

Ayyye!<\/em> What a putz!<\/p>\n

Sens. Shelly Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, all Republicans, oppose the GOP-authored bill designed to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act. They’re all GOP moderates. They are speaking from their hearts and, apparently, speaking on behalf of their constituents. That’s not good enough for Farenthold, who said he’d settle this the way Burr did in the early 19th century when he shot political rival Alexander Hamilton to death in a duel.<\/p>\n

It’s funny that Farethold didn’t mention that Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Jerry Moran of Kansas, and Rand Paul of Kentucky — three strong conservatives — also oppose the GOP bill.<\/p>\n

Did the South Texas macho man say anything about them during his radio rant? Umm. I don’t believe so.<\/p>\n

Farenthold called it a tongue-in-cheek <\/a>comment and said he is tired of the “liberal media” making something out of nothing.<\/p>\n

It ain’t nothing, young man. It speaks to the terrible personal divisions between men and women on both sides of a deepening chasm on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n\n

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I don’t feel like being genteel with this blog post. U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold needs to shut his overworked pie hole. Period! The Texas Republican lawmaker told a Corpus Christi radio host that if three female GOP senators who oppose the pending Trumpcare health insurance bill awaiting a vote in the Senate were men, he’d … Continue reading Shut up, Rep. Farenthold<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[131,1941,7001],"class_list":["post-23347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-aca","tag-gop","tag-trumpcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23350,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23347\/revisions\/23350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}