It shouldn’t be, anyway. Although you wouldn’t know it by the way some of our fine elected officials have been behaving lately!

First up is New Hampshire Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, who has come up with a clever way of dealing with people who ask her questions in townhall meetings that she doesn’t feel like answering:

Ed Morrissey notes: “I’ve watched this video a couple of times, and I still can’t figure out why the police took this man out of the room.” Apparently because he asked whether the guy in the purple SEIU shirt, the one trying to drown out his question, was even a resident of New Hampshire. The implication being that the young fellow was bussed in from somewhere else. But that would be astroturfing! So out the older guy goes.

Oh, sorry, he was ejected because he didn’t have a ticket to speak. As Now Hampshire notes (emphasis mine):

In four short years Carol Shea-Porter has evolved from a rabble-rousing, town hall disrupting anti-war activist who once had to be forcibly removed from a President George Bush event in Portsmouth to a Member of Congress who instructed armed security guards to remove a frustrated voter from her own town hall event in Manchester on Saturday.

In the appended video, Shea-Porter can be seen instructing security to remove a man for standing to ask a question without a ticket. Shea-Porter previously held a lottery to determine who could ask questions. She can also be heard taunting the man on his way out by saying, “I do hope the movie theater can be a little quieter for you…”

“The irony is, of course, that Shea-Porter used to be a ‘tea-bagger’ on the left,” writes Nashua Telegraph columnist Kevin Landrigan. “She stalked then-congressman Jeb Bradley at town hall-style meetings the 1st District Republican incumbent held throughout his district.”

Four years ago Carol Shea-Porter protested at the State House alongside people dressed as Nazis while accusing the federal government of trying “to brand us like sheep.” On Saturday, she disparagingly referred to people who do not trust the same federal government to run our health care system as “these people.”

Nazis, eh? So the government is a bunch of Nazis when you’re one of the people, and then when you win a position in the government, it’s the people who are the Nazis. Nazi see, Nazi do!

Bonus: The guy who was escorted out, Carl Tomanelli, is a retired NYC cop.

Next up is the always-charming Nevada Senator Harry Reid. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber’s board members for a meet-’n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal’s director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.

Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: “I hope you go out of business.”

And hello to you too, Senator! Keep up the good fight against those “evil-mongers.” Republicans tend to reserve the word “evil” for other countries that hate America, but now we know that the real bad guys are American citizens who disagree with your policies. If they’re members of the press, even worse!

And finally, good ol’ New York Congressman Charlie Rangel. Charlie, Charlie, Charlie… NY Post:

Rep. Charles Rangel claimed on mortgage papers that a Harlem brownstone was his principal residence — even though he was living elsewhere at the time, The Post has learned.

When the Democrat — who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee — took out the mortgage in 1990, he said the property on West 132nd Street was his “principal residence,” records show.

But Rangel has been living since the 1970s in Harlem’s Lenox Terrace apartment complex, where he improperly amassed four rent-stabilized properties.

State law requires that rent-regulated apartments be the tenant’s residence…

Newly filed financial-disclosure reports show Rangel has understated his annual earnings, his assets and his business dealings by millions of dollars since 2002, The Post has reported.

Whoops! NY Post again:

Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income — including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale — on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records.

And according to the Boston Herald:

New York Rep. Charles Rangel is facing more questions over his personal finances after an amended report he filed this month shows he failed to disclose up to $500,000 in assets in 2007.

An amended report to his 2007 Congressional disclosure form indicates that Rangel’s assets include a checking account with a balance between $250,000 and $500,000.

And what makes all this tax-dodging tomfoolery so delicious?

Rangel is the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, which writes the tax code.

With all that tax-free cash, you’d think Rangel could afford lozenges! Sounds like he smokes ground-glass cigars or something.

It’s tough to keep up with all the corruption and hypocrisy in government these days, but that seems like a good start. If you’ve got a good one, leave it in the comments!