I think the Republican Mothership (the USS Nixon) is sending signals down to earth for all Republicans to start acting like their pants are on fire.

Let us go to normally staid New Hampshire where we shall meet State Representative Steve Vailliancourt of Manchester, a man who is a little tightly wound to start with.  Set him off by not letting his bully his way to legislation  and you, my friend, become Adolph Hussein Hitler to him.

Scary video here.

Vailliancourt later apologized but it took 4, count ‘um four, tries for him to get the apology right.

First try:  “So I will never use a German word again, including (unintelligible German) meine damen und herren,” which roughly translates to “I’m being sarcastic as hell, you jerks.”

Finally he was able to get it right.  Well, sort of.

“Again, I apologize to the chair of the House for using those inflammatory German words,” he said.

Later on, Vaillancourt was still upset about the initial procedural matter that set him off.

“It’s a Stalinist tactic. It’s the tactic of a tyrant,” he said.

Well, that’s so much nicer.  I mean, Stalin ain’t bad, право?

Thanks to Irene for the heads up.