Republican Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold is getting criticism after remarks about the GOP’s recent failed attempts at Obamacare repeal during a recent radio interview. He’s pissed that his party hasn’t succeeded at taking away health care from millions of Americans yet—and he says we only have women to blame. ThinkProgress reports (emphasis mine):
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.”
Stay classy, Farenthold.
This isn’t the first time the Congressman has made headlines. Back in May, he pushed a ridiculous conspiracy theory about the murder of a young DNC staffer. But his true claim-to-fame is probably this photo.
You can listen to the whole episode below. The aforementioned remarks start around the 27:00 mark.