GOP lawmaker: Duel comment was ‘tongue in cheek’

Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) on Monday clarified comments he made suggesting a duel with female senators over the GOP’s healthcare bill, saying it was “tongue in cheek.”

“Like the President, I am sick and tired of the left-wing biased media trying to make something out of nothing. This was clearly tongue in cheek,” the congressman said in a statement.

{mosads}“That being said, I’m extremely frustrated with Senate Republicans who are breaking their promise to the American people to repeal and replace Obamacare.”

Farenthold last week blamed “some female senators from the Northeast” for holding up Senate legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

“If it was a guy from south Texas, I might ask him to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr-style,” Farenthold said in the reported remarks.