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"When your wife is insulted and embarrassed, you do tend to get a little offended," Young said yesterday, explaining his upbraiding of Gainer that night and his fervent speech on the House floor yesterday morning, when he waved the shirt and bellowed about his wife's ejection: "Shame! Shame!"

Young said he wouldn't be so mad if it were just Sheehan. "I totally disagree with everything she stands for," he said. But by removing his wife, Gainer's officers clearly "acted precipitously," Young said.

The Capitol's Tempest in a T-Shirt


So, let me get this straight. A Congressman doesn't care that someone's civil rights may have been violated because he doesn't agree with her viewpoint, but as long as it was his wife who was wronged, then he's upset.

Right.