We already knew that Rep. Drunken Van Orden was a mean drunk when he drunk raged at the teenaged senate pages. But now, DVO has shown the world that he is just a mean, backstabbing SOB.
DVO had always claimed to be all in for the farmers who make up a large part of his district, but there had been signs that would cause one to pause to wonder whether that was true. Oh, sure, DVO put up a good show, but it wasn’t hard to find the tells that he was lying through his bourbon-stained teeth. There was the fact that he continuously and willfully failed to produce a farm bill. More recently, there was the time that he started to screech at the professor who testified that congress was looking to cut farmers’ lifelines like SNAP and other important programs.
Last week, he feigned being so outraged by talk of cutting these programs, he got up and walked out on a briefing, hurling insults on his way. But it turns out that that too was just performative bullshit, which is as close as DVO comes to actually supporting farmers:
