Collins Caught on Hot Mic About Farenthold: 'He's So Unattractive, It's Unbelievable'

[DonViejo]

Maine Senator responding to Texas congressman’s ‘Aaron Burr’ remark

Posted Jul 25, 2017 12:08 PM
Eric Garcia
@Eric Garcia

Sen. Susan Collins inadvertently responded to Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold's allegorical challenge to a duel. During the end of a hearing at the Senate Appropriations Committee, Collins was caught with an unidentified male senator, identified by other media as Connecticut Democrat Jack Reed, talking about Farenthold.

“Did you hear him challenge me to a duel,” Collins said.

The male senator joked with Collins saying, “You could beat the s--t out of him.”

Collins said in response, “He’s so unattractive. it’s unbelievable.”

Then she added, “Did you see that picture of him in his pajamas?”

On Monday, Farenthold told radio station KEYS it was "absolutely repugnant" that "some female senators from the Northeast" were blocking Republican attempts to repeal the 2010 health care law, appearing to address Collins, who is from Maine, and other female Republican senators who have had issues with the GOP plan. Farenthold said if they were men, he would go “Aaron Burr-style” on them, referring to the winner of the duel between the then-vice president and former treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton.

While she was telling us how she really felt, Collins had a few words about President Donald Trump, too, questioning his knowledge of how the budget worked.

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http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/susan-collins-calls-farenthold-so-unattractive-on-hot-mic

[Gothmog]

1. LOL

[Maven]

2. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

OMG. This is fantastic on so many levels.

[MFM008]

3. And so true

.....

[get the red out]

4. That's awesome, so funny!

That Congressman was asking for it.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Dear Founding Fathers,

In light of the mockery the Republican Party has made of your grand creation, might you consider a re-write?

Thanks in advance,
America

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Don't get distracted. Today they talked on a hot mike about how they think Trump is crazy.

At the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday morning, Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) didn’t switch off her microphone. Apparently speaking to Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the ranking Democrat of the committee, Collins discussed the federal budget — and President Trump’s lack of familiarity with the details of governing.

After Reed praises Collins’s handling of the hearing, held by the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, she laments the administration’s handling of spending.

“I swear, [the Office of Management and Budget] just went through and whenever there was ‘grant,’ they just X it out,” Collins says. “With no measurement, no thinking about it, no metrics, no nothing. It’s just incredibly irresponsible.”

“Yes,” Reed replies. “I think — I think he’s crazy,” apparently referring to the president. “I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.”

“I’m worried,” Collins replies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/07/25/senators-on-hot-mic-trump-is-crazy-im-worried/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.a4d269898745