And yet that big fat obnoxious prick is still employed.
Republicans, the party of no shame
So is Conyers. It isn’t just Republicans.
Not for long
Resigning today
Are you telling me that both sides aren’t as terrible. Are you telling me there is actually a difference between 2 parties, one whose leadership has publicly called on their member to resign, while the other is publicly supporting a pedophile?
We’ll see. Retiring is not the same as resigning.
That’s what they do
False equivalency 101
The fucking RNC is supporting the Perv in Alabama again FFS.
Power over all else
Initial cries for him to step down are now …what …he might win?
Never mind
it’s a feature not a bug. They get to knock out principled Democrats while keeping their own in office. Same principle as endorsing a pedophile over a respectable Democrat who prosecuted the KKK. It’s all about winning, it’s the only thing that matters.
The good ol’ boys protect each other. This is why “men” like Farenthold continue bouncing along their obnoxious way. They have power and they use it.
WaPo article says Conyers will not run for reelection next year, but he won’t be resigning:
Actually, Conyers stands as the example that Republicans are far more brazen and hypocritical than Democrats. Pelosi called upon Conyers to reason (and then Ryan opportunistically chipped in). But Ryan hasn’t called on Farenthold (who has that damned pajama sex party in his past, also) to resign.
She must have really wanted to work in Washington to take a job working for that fat slob!
He will get even more votes now. The idiots in his district will look at as a positive.
Could you try this…just once…stop with your contrived partisan angles on non-partisan affairs? There’s no politics in sex harassment. It’s been around 1000’s of years before your beloved Republicans existed and it will be around long after they and you are gone. But if you want to drag GOP superiority into this first square it with the fact they’ve professed to be the party of “character” and “values” and all that goody two shoes shit for decades. Square it with the fact “values voters” and “Evangelicals” seem to lose track of that holier than thou crap when GOP ( forgetting GOD ) is on that ballot. The Democrats have never claimed to be Godly Saints but your boys and the wishy washy clowns that vote for them have been forever.
Sexual harassment is bed enough. But when you couple it with phony outrage, political opportunism and hypocrisy you make it worse. So pack it up dude. There’s no “opportunity” in this for you. Your hunt for one is fucking gross.
In case anybody missed it, here is Cong. Farenthold getting a little “frisky”.
Ewww
Sympathetic, but only to a point. You lie with dogs, you might get fleas. She had no reason to expect harassment, but she agreed to work for an unmitigated creep.
Farenthold is a Republican like George HW Bush, Henry Hyde, Donnie Trump, Roy Moore, Clarence Thomas, and SC’s Sanborn. Republican’s don’t ever face the same standards and Democrats…lying, misogyny, tax cheating, election rigging, and etc… are all acceptable for Republicans.
If you want a corrupt neo-nazi government, then vote Republican.
Oh I don’t think so. She may not have known and at any rate she should have been respected in the workplace
Exactly. Which is the point of my original post. It is both Republicans and Democrats. The leadership of both parties have allowed a culture of sexual harassment and abuse to fester unabated in the House. They should ALL step down from their leadership posts.
People seem to conveniently forget that Republican Denny Hastert, former House Speaker, was a pedophile. Democrats seem afraid to remind the nation of that. The Republicans are very complicit in all this, and I never implied that they weren’t.
Denny Hastert was a Republican. So was Tom Foley. I would have thought those scandals would have given guys like Farenthold pause, but apparently the message they took from those scandals was stay away from children and young men. Young women were still fair game.
Correction: Mark Foley. And he used to represent the district where I live. It is hell getting old.