“He’s so unattractive, it’s unbelievable.” “He’s so unattractive, it’s unbelievable.”
A private conversation between two senators that was caught on a live microphone reveals a tense climate among lawmakers and with the White House.
Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, mocked Representative Blake Farenthold, who’ d suggested he might challenge her to a duel if she weren’ t a woman because of her opposition to holding a vote to get rid of Obamacare.
“He’s huge, ” she said of the portly congressman from Texas, a fellow Republican. “He’s so unattractive, it’s unbelievable.”
Collins was speaking with Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, after a Tuesday Senate Appropriations subcommittee markup, apparently unaware that a microphone was picking up their conversation.
Reed told Collins, “Do you know why he challenged you to a duel? Because you could beat the s–t out of him first.”
