A photo taken by a source for Punchbowl News’s Max Cohen in the immediate aftermath of Republican Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden berating a group of Senate pages hanging out in the Capitol Rotunda Wednesday night shows a copious number of empty wine bottles and other alcohol bottles sitting on the Congressman’s desk in his office, raising doubts about the story Van Orden related that he was upset about perceived disrespect the high school students he claims were displaying when he called them “lazy fucks” and “little shits.”
It seems the irrational outburst at the teenagers was due more to doses of Kentucky Gentleman rather than concern for the memory of Union soldiers.