Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) is in hot water after he cursed out a group of teenage Senate pages in the Capitol rotunda early Thursday morning. According to a transcript written by a page …

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    Van Orden did not dispute the exchange and defended his actions when asked by The Hill.

    “The history of the United States Capitol Rotunda, that during the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead,” he said.

    "If anyone had been laying a series of graves in Arlington National Cemetery, what do you think people would say?”

    Journalism is way to soft these days…

    I don’t know how no one asked him what he thought about 1/6