Republican Congressman Calls Interior Department “Gestapo”

Thanks to the Greatest Generation, He Doesn’t Have to Meet the Real Gestapo

One of the reasons why Republicans have not suffered at the polls for their outlandish behavior in certain instances is that the behavior is so outlandish that probably no one believes that it has occurred.

Case in point, Louisiana Rep. Jeff Landry, a Republican who recently felt he was not treated correctly by officials in the Department of the Interior.  Here is a report of what allegedly happened.

According to the Times-Picayune, Landry’s complaint stems from the fact he had to wait 20 minutes in the lobby for a BOEMRE official to say that the top officers weren’t in the office and the congressman would have to return



Dept of Interior
to GOP
Congressman



And here is Mr. Landry’s reaction

Landry said BOEMRE was acting “like the CIA and Gestapo”

Thus gravely insulting both the CIA and the Interior Department. 

Appropriately, the head of the Interior agency under attack, a Mr. Michael Bromwich, asked for an apology, but Mr. Landry, in a level of arrogance and condescension previously thought unattainable, even for a member of Congress said

 

“If there is any apology necessary, it would be from you to me and — more importantly — to the hard-working people of South Louisiana, many of whom are now unemployed as a result of decisions from your agency,” Landry wrote

 

The current status of this sordid attack by a supposedly reputable member of the United States Congress is this

the agency had previously set up a Sept. 30 meeting with the congressman, that has now been canceled.

“Our agency’s employees are well aware of their obligation to the public they loyally serve,” Bromwich wrote Monday. “They do not believe they are under any obligation to meet with someone who has slandered them in this way.”

Mr. Bromwich had also said “Your comparison of the minor inconvenience you experienced to the tactics and methods of the Nazi secret police is simply unacceptable from anyone, but especially from a public official.”

Kudos Mr. Bromwich, nice going and your actions and words make all of us, well all of us except for egomaniacal members of Congress feel better about our government.