...collective IQ must shoot through the roof whenever Congress is in session.

And the people who voted for him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farenthold
Farenthold started her political career in the 1968 when she was elected to represent Nueces and Kleberg counties in the Texas House of Representatives. She was the only woman serving in the Texas House at the time. Senator Barbara Jordan was then the only woman serving in the Texas Senate. They co-sponsored the Equal Legal Rights Amendment to the Texas Constitution.[2]

...At the Democratic National Convention in 1972, she came in second to the presidential nominee's choice, U.S. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri. She garnered more delegate votes (404.04) than then-U.S. Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, and future U.S. President Jimmy Carter of Georgia, among others.

In 1972 and 1974, she unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas. She was defeated both times by Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde, a more conservative Democrat. In 1973, she was elected as the first chair of the National Women's Political Caucus.[3] She later served as president of Wells College in Aurora, New York, from 1976-1980.

Human rights work[edit source]

During her tenure at Wells, Farenthold expanded her work with women’s groups and anti-nuclear, peace, and human rights groups. She was an active member of Helsinki Watch, the predecessor to the organization Human Rights Watch and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.[4]...

Farenthold and Vaughan organized the Peace Tent at the 1985 U.N. NGO Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, in conjunction with the third U.N. World Conference on Women.[6] They also were founding members of Women For a Meaningful Summit, an ad hoc coalition of female leaders voicing concerns for nuclear disarmament at the Reagan-Gorbachev summits. [7] Farenthold worked with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a progressive multi-issue think tank devoted to peace, justice, and the environment. With IPS, Farenthold made trips to investigate human rights violations in Central America and Iraq....

[He is a step-grandson]

Agreed. Low-information Texas voters who see the Farenthold name by Congressman Blake's name should seriously reconsider. Those that think that they're voting for someone who would carry on his step-grandmother's political tradition are fooling themselves. Blake ain't the real deal. He's no Sissy Farenthold.

Who would not answer a basic yes/no question for more than 6 1/2 minutes...Chris was too "patient" with this idiot, he should have pulled the plug in half the time at most. "They got nothin'"

The people in his district should be embarrassed for their voting for this twerp. I do not feel embarrassed for him, he thinks that he is cute and funny and it is obvious he is not. Elections are 14 months away maybe just maybe the people in this district will see their mistake and correct it.

Coffee spit all over my iPad!

As big and embarrassing a moron as Blake Farenthold is, THAT'S how good a person and politician Sissy Farenthold was. We Texas liberals (and no, Goddammit, that is not a contradiction in terms) miss Sissy, the same way we miss Ann Richards and Molly Ivins.

inside and out.

Plus he seems drunk or something

Evasive bullshit, dog whistles every 45 seconds, cliches as thick as pot smoke at Burning Man, and a comprehensive ignorance of the law, the Constitution and the basic responsibilities of his job that blazes with the blinding intensity of burning magnesium.

I just a violent urge ... something about that grinning gap-toothed asshole enrages me.

It is incredible that this guy can't say that our President was legitimately elected. No minimum IQ needed, just a fat jowl and mealy-mouth for fear of a right wing attack. Being here in Kentucky I feel for those Texans that are represented by him.

Nice smackdown by Matthews!

yes INDEED

all of them have been marching lockstep in their position to hamstring the forward motion of the nation to ford it's way out of the economic mess they have perpetuated, blaming the whole thing on the administration. Now their chickens have come to roost. so those among them who see the writing on the wall, (BTW, Don't even think of calling these bastards moderates.) have decided to put Teddy's neck on the chopping block. (Not that he doesn't deserve it, But the rest of them deserve it too.) This is just more theater for the masses.
I say let the house of cards fall! We all know it's gonna happen sooner or later and we at the bottom have little to loose. the bastards who have it all, and caused it all, The robber barons, the bankers, the praise Saint Ronald Regan crowd, will jump out windows, and eat the business end of their guns in droves. Because They don't know how to earn a honest wage, and have been the parasites who needed to be culled from the start. The Nation as a whole will be better off without them. The Pols will either tow the will of the people or be jailed themselves. Money is not free speech! When this sleeping giant is fully awake, those on the front line of who caused this mess will pay first, and the price will be high. Lets see how they like it! You'll find me in front of the state house in Trenton, Selling rotten fruit and veggies as they hang em one by one.

Their, I feel much better!

Gohmert, Stockman, Perry, Cruz, & W. Man what a pant load.

Texas has Wendy Davis and it did have Molly, Gov. Ann, and Lady Bird Johnson.*


* Lady Bird was 50 years ahead of her time with her work w/ conservation and
wildflowers.

Hey, none of us can "unsee" that photo.

I agree it is f***ing egregious