Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis) obviously thinks he is still back at his home in Wisconsin. He caught some Senate pages napping on the floor of the Capitol Rotunda, and, it is reported, spoke to them as follows: “Wake the f— up you little s—-. … What the f—- are you all doing? Get the f— out of here. You are defiling the space you [pieces of s—].” 

Maybe Mr. Van Orden, a father and grandfather, forgot where he was, and assumed he was back in his home in Wisconsin shouting at his grandchildren. Or, another explanation for his behavior: Van Orden is a former Navy Seal, and so is, one is supposed to assume, full of hyper-patriotic zeal, and that’s why he thought he could re-enact Driving-Out-the-Moneychangers.

Golly! If he bellows so angrily and coarsely at Senate pages taking a catnap in the Rotunda, what might he have said to the insurrectionist vandals on Jan 6? Or, would he have been busy shaking hands with them?