Posted on 07/25/2017 3:41:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Awkward! After someone forgot to switch off a microphone at the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, July 25, two senators were caught dissing President Donald Trump on a hot mic.
Chairman of Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee Susan Collins and Sen. Jack Reed were unknowingly recorded discussing the federal budget and calling 71-year-old Trump “crazy” in audio obtained by The Washington Post.
“I swear, [the Office of Management and Budget] just went through and whenever there was ‘grant,’ they just X it out,” said Collins, a Republican senator from Maine. “With no measurement, no thinking about it, no metrics, no nothing. It’s just incredibly irresponsible.”
“Yes,” Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, responded. “I think — I think he’s crazy. I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.”
“I’m worried,” Collins added.
The two senators continue to discuss the budget and their concerns before the topic changes to Representative Blake Farenthold, whose appearance they discussed. “I don’t mean to be unkind, but he’s so unattractive it’s unbelievable,” Collins said.
Collins’ spokeswoman Annie Clark released a statement after the conversation went public, saying: “Senator Collins is worried about the elimination of transportation and housing programs in the president’s budget request that are critically important to local communities across our country, such as: TIGER, CDBG, Essential Air Service, HOME as well as major reductions to FAA, Amtrak, and rental assistance, which serves predominantly older and disabled individuals.”
Trump was caught on a hot mic himself in 2005 with Billy Bush in a now infamous lewd exchange about women that also was made public by The Washington Post in October 2016.
Blake Farenthold: "I want to get a second opinion."
Susan Collins: "Okay, you're ugly too!"
(Old joke. Like several posters have already made clear, Susan Collins is certainly no raving beauty herself.)
Crazier than Squeakey Fromme ..
The irony of these Sociopaths questioning ANYONE’S sanity is beyond reason.
Did you write that? It’s awesome.
But you left out “I’m a cheese maker, I make cheese. It’s not my fault I wake up crying everyday...living in a Hitler remake.”
Did you write that? It’s awesome.
But you left out “I’m a cheese maker, I make cheese. It’s not my fault I wake up crying everyday...living in a Hitler remake.”
Susan Collins does seem to be very cheese like
Xing out GRANTS is a very RESPONSIBLE thing to do, as so many grants are to "study" made-up problems, like AGW.
Make each would-be grantee justify the need for a grant and its benefit to the nation before approving any.
Trump should say something to make her look feeble.
Trump should say something to make her look feeble.
Want to see something feeble? Look at Patty Mom in Tennis shoes Murray...
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