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TexasTowelie

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Tue Jun 24, 2014, 12:14 AM Jun 2014

In a Do-Nothing Congress, Blake Farenthold is Enjoying the View

“If you look at what I’ve done in my life it’s like God was preparing me to run for office and be a congressman but I didn’t know it,” said Farenthold. He said his work in radio taught him how to communicate with the public, his time as a lawyer how to draft legislation, and his computer consulting business how to deal with the issues of signing the front of the check rather than the back. It was less clear what his time in Congress is preparing him for.

“The line I use at home is I don’t stay up here long enough for the stupid to rub off on me,” said Farenthold, who is stout and wide chested with dark curly hair that has acquired a congressional grey wisp, during our interview in the Republican Club. “That usually gets a chuckle.”

Of course, Farenthold is hardly alone in his itinerancy. U.S. Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-San Antonio), recently lamented to the Observer that he spends more time on airplanes than on the House floor. But Farenthold doesn’t complain.

“The travel was a pain in the butt until I realized this is the one time when there’s no telephone ringing,” he said. “Once I claimed the travel time as my own I can now download a movie or some TV shows to watch on my iPad. Now I actually look forward to getting on the airplane.”


The complete article is at http://www.texasobserver.org/nothing-congress-blake-farenthold-enjoying-view/ .
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In a Do-Nothing Congress, Blake Farenthold is Enjoying the View (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2014 OP
he is absolutely disgusting Skittles Jun 2014 #1
Agreed. TexasTowelie Jun 2014 #2
you know it Towelie Skittles Jun 2014 #3
Ducky pajama boy is a joke Gothmog Jun 2014 #4
Farenthold spends more time beating his chest while grandstanding than getting work done in DhhD Jun 2014 #5

DhhD

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5. Farenthold spends more time beating his chest while grandstanding than getting work done in
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:36 AM
Jun 2014

Congress. He needs to be voted out and replaced. He runs away from the work needed to be done for the majority of the people. The American People should take a great big broom/vote and sweep the trash off the Congressional carpet next time it blows through Washington D.C. There seems to be quite a few useless wads there, in my opinion.

See link below.

Congressional approval rating has hit its lowest mark in a midterm election year in at least 40 years, a new poll found.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/poll-congress-approval-rating-historic-low-16-percent-107886.html#ixzz35YVBMs8P

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